Chief Minister’s strategy, Aditya Thackeray’s strong support, ministers also pay attention to caste, army’s strong planning
Mumbai: Taking a lesson from the Rajya Sabha result, Shiv Sena has done a lot of planning in the Vidhan Parishad elections. Accordingly, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, with the help of senior ministers, came up with a special strategy till last night. According to the plan, a group of 5 MLAs is coming to vote in the legislature. Aditya Thackeray himself is keeping an eye on every MLA by caste. Sena MP Anil Desai and Minister Anil Parab are again guiding the MLAs on voting, despite holding special workshops for MLAs to ensure that there is no disturbance during preferential voting. The intention is that the arithmetic of votes cast in the Rajya Sabha should not be repeated in the Legislative Council.
Today, after the battle for the Rajya Sabha seat, the BJP-Mahavikas alliance is fighting again for 10 seats in the Legislative Council. Despite not having the required strength, Fadnavis has formed a strong front to win the fifth candidate on the strength of various maneuvers and confidence given by the Rajya Sabha results. Here, the leaders of Mahavikas Aghadi held meetings till late last night and filled the MLAs. Except Shiv Sena, all the parties have to get additional votes.
As soon as the voting started, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray entered the legislature. He got information from Anil Parab and Anil Desai about the morning events. After that Uddhav Thackeray guided the Sena MLAs. Voting should be done by a group of 5 MLAs. No one should mess with voting. The Chief Minister instructed the MLAs to implement the voting instructions as given. At 11 am, Environment Minister Aditya Thackeray reached the legislature by bus with some MLAs. After that a group of MLAs reached for the visit of the Chief Minister. This time too, the Chief Minister gave appropriate instructions to the MLAs. Until the polls, Aditya Thackeray was also instructing groups of MLAs to cast their votes. Aditya Thackeray was trying his best to take all the necessary precautions so that there would be no disturbance during the preferential voting and the vote would not be invalidated.
