An MLA from Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction and a legislator of the NCP virtually꧟ came to blows in the Vidhan✤ Bhavan premises here on Wednesday after shouting slogans against each other.
The NCP MLAs carried carrots on the steps of the♑ legislature building in an bid to taunt the ✅ruling Shiv Sena-BJP coalition.
The Shinde faction MLAs tried to snatch the carrots from the NCP legislators, raising tension betw�💝�een them.
Sena MLA Mahesh Shinde (from the CM's faction) and NCP MLC Amol Mitkari then virtually came to blows at th♔e steps of the legislature building.
Some﷽ legislators from the two sides then intervened and diffused the tension. Earlier, legislators of the ruling BJP and those from the Shind꧟e faction staged a protest in the Vidhan Bhavan premises targeting former CM Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya Thackeray.
They carr♛ied banners with messages alleging corruption in the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and claimed the Thackerays compromised Hindutva for power.
Som꧒e of the banners c🍌arried the message: "Raja stayed indoors due to fear of COVID-19 while friends of the yuvraj looted the treasury."
Th🦋e MLAs also shouted slogans like "standing committee ꦕche khoke...Matoshree okay," alleging corruption in the BMC with the support of Thackerays.
'Matoshree' is the residence of Uddhav Thackera🐷y in suburban Bandra. Standing committee is the governing body of the BMC, where the elec💫tions are due.
Bharat Gogawale, the MLA from the🍎 Shinde camp, told reporters that the opposition legislators need not have൲ come near them when they were staging the protest.
"They started arguing first. When they protested all these days, we did not interfཧere," he said. Members from both the sides k🍃ept shouting slogans against each other for some more time and then went into the House to attend the day's proceedings.
The state legislature's monsoon se🦹ssion will conclude on Thursday. Shinde and 39 other Shiv Sena legislators had revolted against t✃he party leadership in June this year, which led to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led government comprising the Sena, NCP and Congress.
On June 30, Shinde was sworn in as the chief minister along with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis as his d🦋eꦏputy.
