Mumbai, Mar 26 (PTI) Maharashtra Legislative Council Chairman Ram Shinde has said his deputy Neelam Gorhe’s order on suspension of Satara SP will be forwarded to law and constitutional experts for their opinion and then only a ruling will follow.
Shinde made the remarks in the Upper House on Wednesday, virtually putting on hold the suspension of Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Tushar Doshi and other officials over the ruckus during the Satara Zilla Parishad (ZP) president election last week.
Council Deputy Chairperson Gorhe on Monday asked the state government to suspend Satara Superintendent of Police Doshi, a directive which did not go down well with the BJP, which heads the ruling coalition.
“The decision on suspension of Satara SP and other officials will be forwarded to law and constitutional experts (and a ruling) will be given later,” Shinde said in the council on Wednesday.
After consideration of the decision taken by the deputy chairperson, the government must probe the incident and take action according to law, he maintained.
The chairman concurred with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ argument on the issue.
On Tuesday, Fadnavis said the powers of the executive, judiciary and legislature are well defined in the Constitution.
Executive powers rest with the executive, and it is answerable to the legislature. The government makes an effort to implement the direction given by the chair, the CM stated.
“But, after apologising to the chair, I am saying this. The speaker (of assembly) and the chairman (of council) cannot step into the shoes of the executive,” the CM had asserted.
“When the chair issues any direction, it is a direction issued according to given circumstances. The executive acts if there is any reality to it. If the facts are different from reality, the executive has the right to tell the legislature that the reality is different and its direction cannot be implemented,” Fadnavis, who holds the Home portfolio, said.
Ministers Shambhuraj Desai (Shiv Sena) and Makarand Patil (Nationalist Congress Party) had alleged the local police manhandled them during the poll held on March 20 to elect the Satara ZP president.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Priya Shinde was elected the Satara ZP president, trumping the Shiv Sena-NCP combine’s candidate despite the latter having a majority in the rural local body. The BJP narrowly surpassed the Sena-NCP alliance’s tally to win the top post. PTI PR RSY GK
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