Image Source : @PRAFUL_PATEL NCP MP Praful Patel resigns from Rajya Sabha
NCP chief Praful Patel on Tuesday tendered his resignation as a member of the Rajya Sabha after being re-elected to the Upper House of Parliament earlier this month. Patel, who had 4 years left in his fifth time period, was fielded within the Rajya Sabha elections as he was going through a disqualification petition filed by the NCP’s Sharad Pawar-led faction.
“Shri Praful Patel, an elected Member of the Council of States (Rajya Sabha), representing the State of Maharashtra, resigned his seat in the Rajya Sabha and his resignation has been accepted by the Chairman, Rajya Sabha, wef the 27th of February, 2024,” a Rajya Sabha bulletin stated on Tuesday.
Patel, who has aligned himself with Ajit Pawar within the NCP’s factional struggle, was elected to the Rajya Sabha for a fifth time period in July 2022. In a put up on X, Patel stated, “I was elected as the Rajya Sabha MP for the tenure of 2022-2028. I have resigned from my four-year balanced old term of Rajy Sabha membership as I have been elected on Rajya Sabha for a new term, which will be effective from 2024 to 2030.”
“Hence, I continue to be the member of the August House till 2030,” he added. The NCP-Sharadchandra Pawar, the brand new identify of the Sharad Pawar-led group, had filed a disqualification petition in opposition to Patel beneath Section 2(a) of the Tenth Schedule, which supplies for disqualification on grounds of defection.
The acceptance of Patel’s resignation from the Rajya Sabha will pave the way in which for him to begin a recent time period within the Upper House rather than Vandana Chavan, who completes her tenure in April. Ajit Pawar, the nephew of Sharad Pawar, walked out of the NCP with a majority of get together MLAs final July and was sworn in as a deputy chief minister within the Shiv Sena-BJP authorities.
Recently, the Election Commission recognised the Ajit Pawar group as the true NCP and allotted the get together’s ‘clock’ election image to it. Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar has additionally recognised the Ajit Pawar-led group as the true NCP. The Election Commission will now must name for a bypoll to fill the emptiness created by Patel’s resignation.
(With inputs from PTI)
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