Today in Politics: Baba Siddique’s death kicks off political firestorm, Shinde cornered over ‘law and order’

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde called the incidental “unfortunate” and said the blameworthy volition beryllium arrested.”

Siddiqui’s sidesplitting up of the Assembly elections which are expected to beryllium held successful November has kicked disconnected a governmental tempest with Opposition parties calling for the resignation of Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Vijay Wadettiwar, the Leader of Opposition successful the Assembly, said the incidental was “unfortunate” contempt the Y-level information fixed to Siddique.

NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar said the “collapsed instrumentality and bid of Maharashtra is worrying”.

“… The ruling broadside should instrumentality up the work and permission the post. I explicit my condolences to the household members of Baba Siddique,” helium added.

In the coming days, law-and-order volition go the adjacent focal constituent of the governmental speech successful the authorities arsenic scrutiny volition beryllium connected however Shinde and Fadnavis tackle the situation.

Must Read: Zeeshan Shaikh’s profile of Siddique who wore galore hats. A salient Mumbai person who started disconnected with pupil politics, Siddique was besides known for his iftar parties that attracted galore Bollywood celebrities.

Known arsenic the Congress party’s Muslim face, Siddiqui faced a important governmental setback erstwhile helium mislaid the 2014 elections to the BJP’s Ashish Shelar. Since then, helium had been striving to revive his governmental career. Although helium did not contention elections himself, helium managed to unafraid a spot for his lad Zeeshan Siddiqui from Bandra East successful the 2019 Assembly elections, and helium won what was considered a Shiv Sena bastion by a constrictive borderline of 5,000 votes. However, Siddiqui had a fallout with the Congress owed to its determination to state with the Shiv Sena and signifier the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.In February this year, ending his 48-year relation with the Congress, Siddiqui near the enactment to articulation the Ajit Pawar-led NCP.

Update connected authorities formation

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister-designate Omar Abdullah said Saturday that the hold successful the swearing-in of the National Conference authorities was due to the fact that of the request to travel the procedures for revoking the President’s Rule successful the Union Territory.

“There is simply a procedure. There has been the President’s Rule present for the past six years. A Cabinet enactment is needed to extremity the President’s Rule which has to beryllium sent to the Rashtrapati Bhavan…”

“God willing, if each these procedures are completed connected Monday, past we volition marque our preparations connected Tuesday and past God willing, we volition instrumentality oath connected Wednesday,” Abdullah said.

Meanwhile successful Haryana, Nayab Singh Saini is apt to instrumentality oath arsenic Haryana main curate successful Panchkula connected October 15. Though the authorities authorities has issued an authoritative missive mentioning the day and venue of the event, a adjacent adjutant of Saini told The Indian Express that they are inactive awaiting confirmation connected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s availability

Recommended speechmaking connected the Haryana and J&K polls:

BJP got 0 successful Kashmir, but down the score, determination were pluses

49 Haryana seats changed hands from past time, BJP retains a overmuch larger chunk than Congress

Protests implicit paddy procurement successful Punjab

Farmers, atom millers and arhtiyas (commission agents) person fixed a telephone for “chakka jam” successful Punjab connected Sunday for 3 hours from 12 noon implicit the authorities not procuring crops and lifting paddy adjacent aft October 1, the opening of kharif harvest play successful Punjab.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann connected Saturday said helium volition conscionable Union Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi connected October 14 to emblem the demands.

— With inputs from PTI