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FLOOR TEST: BJP WINS BUT ONLY BY VOICE VOTE
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Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao enters the Vidhan Bhavan. (Right) Senior Shiv Sena leader Neelam Gorhe greets newly-elected Leader of the Opposition Eknath Shinde, at the Vidhan Bhavan, yesterday.
By A Special Correspondent
T
he Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government won the vote of confidence in the assembly yesterday amidst deafening noise and disturbances created by the Opposition members – the Congress and the Shiv Sena. The confidence motion was passed by a voice vote. There was no immediate demand for a division vote. The Opposition – the Congress and the Shiv Sena – reacted
sharply to the observation of the Speaker and that pointed out as per rules, a division vote should have been taken. There was no cheers but there was jeering when the Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao came to the House and there was continuing disruption as the Governor went on with his address. The Speaker suspended five MLAs of the Opposition and brought some order in the House. When the Governor arrived at the Vidhan Sabha to deliver
his address, a mob tried to stop him from entering the House. There was heated arguments between the MLAs and the Governor's security men – including his ADC. Finally the Governor was able to deal with the pushing around that was going on and entered the House. Even as all the shouting was going on, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) members sat quietly. What is to be noted is that even if the division vote was taken, the BJP
would have had the votes of NCP and got a clean vote of confidence. Did the Opposition MLAs want to prove that the BJP had aligned with the NCP? Speaking to newspersons later at Vidhan Bhavan press room, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis argued that the trust motion was as per rules. Claiming to have won the trust vote, he challenged the Opposition to move a No Confidence motion against the government. Chief Minis-
ter argued that no political party in the house demanded a division of votes and that division of votes is not held after trust motion is adopted by voice vote. He lashed out at the Congress for what he called their misbehavior with Governor as he tried to enter the legislature building to deliver his joint address to both the houses of the state legislature. Speaking to newspersons later newly appointed leader of Opposition Eknath Shinde
and Congress leaders termed the trust vote won by the BJP as an assault on parliamentary democracy. During the process of trust vote both the Congress and NCP MLAs were sitting quiet in the House. The trust vote was adopted with the NCP keeping silent and abstaining from taking part in the vote. Since the motion was carried by a voice vote it was not clear as to by how many votes Continued on pg 8 «
CR ambulance takes 4 hrs to transport dead body from St George to JJ hospital
By Vishnudas Sheshrao
D
ue to the absence of an ambulance, a railway 'accident' victim died while reaching hospital on Wednesday. What's worse, the newly inducted ambulance in the Central Railway could not reach even in four hours to transport the dead body from St George hospital to JJ hospital for postmortem, police officials said. Social workers alleged that
it was lapse on part of railway station manager who did not arrange a ambulance to transport the mortal remains to nearest hospital, and instead directed the Government Railway Police to transport the victim by local train to St George hospital instead JJ hospital which was in close proximity of the accident site. According to police, around 1.40pm a railway passenger fell down from a running train in between Sandhurst Road
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and Masjid Bunder station. Sandhurst railway station manager could not manage to get ambulance to transport the patient to hospital. Instead the station manger directed the GRP to transport the injured victim by local train to St George hospital. Victim who is yet to be identified had sustained injuries on head and hands. At St George hospital, doctors declared the victim as dead on arrival. St George hospital
authorities refused to carry out postmortem of the dead body stating that it was not in their jurisdiction, and also because victim's identity was yet to be ascertained and due to of lack of space in their mortuary. The authorities accordingly asked the GRP to shift the body. GRP was ready to shift the dead body to JJ Hospital but due to lack of ambulance Continued on pg 8 «