After Split In Allies Sena And NCP, Congress Is Largest Party In Maharashtra: Deets Inside!
Ajit Pawar, the nephew of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, joined the BJP on Sunday and brought 8 MLAs with him, bringing the party's total representation in the Assembly down from 53 to 44. There are 45 members of Congress. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) split, and the Congress is now the party with the majority of MLAs on the Maharashtra opposition benches. Balasaheb Thorat, the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP), told ThePrint that they should now hold the position of Leader of the Opposition. “The LoP position goes to the party that has the highest number of MLAs and so the Leader of Opposition should be from us,” Thorat mentioned. After Ajit Pawar, the NCP's previous leader of opposition, joined the BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) cabinet on Sunday, Thorat made this st
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