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Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari was "pained and dismayed" by the "threatening tenor" of the Maharashtra government's letter, said sources.The ongoing tussle between Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari escalated over the election of the Assembly Speaker.Sources toldthat Governor Koshyari in his response to Maharashtra Chief Minister over the proposal of notifying Speaker's election mentioned that "he was personally pained and dismayed to see the intemperate tone and threatening tenor of Thackeray's letter which has belittled and denigrated the highest constitutional office of the Governor."The Governor told Maharashtra Chief Minister that the latter has taken nearly eleven months to initiate the process of Speaker's election and the Maharshtra Assembly Rules 6 and 7 have been amended drastically, said sources.The Speaker post in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly still remained vacant even after the conclusion of the Winter session on Tuesday as Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Maha Vikas Aghadi government continued to be in tussle over the election of the post.Governor in a letter to the government raised several issues for the same citing technical and legal reasons.Maharashtra assembly speaker's post has been vacant for over nine months now. The Budget session of the state Assembly will start on February 28.Following the Assembly elections of 2019, Congress leader Nana Patole was elected Speaker of the House. But the post fell vacant in February 2021, after Patole resigned and was appointed president of Maharashtra state Congress.On Tuesday morning Governor responded to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government's proposal of notifying Speaker's election in a sealed cover and raised some issues in the proposed process of Speaker election after which the state government decided not to go ahead with its plans to hold elections in the winter session.The state government on December 24 has decided to hold the Assembly Speaker's election on December 28 and a proposal was sent to Raj Bhavan for Governor's consent on the same day.Two days later, on December 26, a delegation of senior ministers met Governor Koshyari in Raj Bhavan and sought his consent for the election.According to a source present in the meeting, Governor told MVA ministers that he was taking legal opinion on the constitutionality of the amendments made by the Rules Committee of the state legislature last week in order to conduct the election of the Speaker by voice vote instead of secret ballotOpposition party BJP was also not in favour of holding elections without the Governor's consent. BJP had one more reservation aboutSpeaker's election. BJP state president Chandrakant Patil said it would not be appropriate to proceed with the election in view of the fact that 12 lawmakers of the party had been suspended for a year during the Monsoon Session held in July.Now, sources said that the government will either convene a special session of the Assembly for speaker's election or the process can be completed in the 2022 budget session.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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