Ajit Pawar: Full text of Ajit Pawar’s speech in Maharashtra assembly | Mumbai News – Times of India

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Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday congratulated newly elected state assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar with a punch of humour aimed at BJP leaders. Pawar said Narwekar was an effective spokesperson when he was in the Shiv Sena and did a good job as spokesperson for the NCP too. Narwekar will do a good job and justice as speaker of the House, the NCP leader added.
Narwekar secured 164 votes and defeated his sole rival — the Maha Vikas Aghadi-backed Shiv Sena candidate Rajan Salvi — who secured 107 votes, in the 288-member House.

Potshots and humour: Why Ajit Pawar's speech in Maharashtra Assembly is going viral

Potshots and humour: Why Ajit Pawar’s speech in Maharashtra Assembly is going viral

Here’s a full text of Ajit Pawar’s speech
I, on behalf of NCP and myself, congratulate him (Rahul Narwekar) for being elected as Speaker. Maharashtra assembly speaker post has a glorious tradition.
So far, we have seen all the speakers doing justice to this position, and I hope the assembly will do a very good job under the new Speaker, Narwekar, and all members will get justice and the wheels of Maharashtra’s development will accelerate.
Rahul Narwekar has been named the youngest assembly speaker. This is a great honour and glory which comes with an equally great responsibility.
If you take a look at the names, many veterans have held speaker’s posts — former speakers Dilip Walse Patil, Haribhau Bagade and Nana Patole are in the assembly today.
After the resignation of Nana Patole, deputy speaker Narhari Zirwal got the opportunity to serve as the speaker in-charge.
Zirwal, who belongs to a tribal community, also tried his best to do justice to the post.
I thank Zirwal and all former speakers.
There are ups and downs in political life. The work of this House should be fair and there should be room for scholarly discussions, giving justice to the members of the House.
All the speakers have tried to take forward the development of the state and we expect the same from you, Narwekar ji.
The House has got a young and scholarly leadership in the form of Narwekar.
As far as I know, you have been in the legislative assembly for six years and half-term in the legislative assembly. You have experience of both Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad. I have seen you closely. Your father was an Independent corporator; today, your brother and sister-in-law are corporators.
You have a background of political and public life. You are intelligent, and have the ability to understand issues. Moreover, you have a command over English, Marathi and Hindi languages.

Who is Rahul Narvekar, new Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly?

Who is Rahul Narvekar, new Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly?

Narwekar’s Shiv Sena stint
Earlier, Rahul Narwekar saheb was in the Shiv Sena. I got to know that he was known as close to Aaditya Thackeray. You also shared knowledge of law with him, and we also keep a close watch on such people. You got to work in Shiv Sena. Later, when we needed a candidate from the Maval Lok Sabha constituency, we approached you and he was announced the NCP’s official candidate from Maval.
However, Rahul Narwekar was also among those who got swept away in the Narendra Modi wave of 2014. But our Speaker is very smart. He had told me then that even if he were to lose, they should accommodate him as a member somewhere and that’s how he became a member of the Legislative Council.
He was an effective spokesperson from the Shiv Sena. He did a good job as spokesperson for NCP too. Therefore, I am confident that you will do a good job as Speaker of the House.
Suggestion to Eknath Shinde
No matter which party he belongs to, Rahul Narwekar has a knack of getting close to the party’s top leadership.
When he was in the Shiv Sena, he worked closely with Aaditya Thackeray. When he was in NCP, he got close to me.
In the Bharatiya Janata Party, he did the same with Devendra Fadnavis. Shinde saheb, you should get him to work closely with you too, otherwise it may not work out well for you.
Speaker with knowledge of law
There are several veterans working in the party (BJP), but it has come as a surprise for them. What you could not do in years — Mungantiwar saheb, Shelar saheb, Mahajan saheb —Narwekar has done it in three years.
In many years, after Dilip Walse-Patil, the House has got a speaker who has studied law. There is going to be expectation of him following law and looking at the questions raised by the members sensitively.
‘You are our son-in-law too’
Rahul Narwekar is the son-in-law of Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar, chairman of the Vidhan Parishad (and NCP leader). That makes him our son-in-law too. And I am sure as son-in-law, he won’t do injustice to his father-in-law’s party. This is the first time that a son-in-law and a father-in-law are speakers and chairman of the House respectively. I am surprised that many senior leaders have lost the opportunity.
Indirect jibe at turncoats amid laughter
When I look at the benches of the BJP today, I see that rather than the loyal workers who spent years in the BJP, many are those who have crossed over. I feel bad about the original BJP leaders. Just look at the first row (in the House) of BJP leaders — Ganesh Naik, Babanrao Pachpute, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Uday (Samant) — all are from other parties. And the one sitting behind deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. He (Deepak Kesarkar) has become an excellent spokesperson in recent times. What we taught him has certainly not gone to waste.
Shock for Maharashtra
When we were watching TV (news), Devendra Fadnavis announced that Eknath Shinde will be the chief minister. There was a pin-drop silence. Many in the BJP started crying. No one could understand what was happening. It was a shock for Maharashtra. Girish (Mahajan) is still shedding tears so much that even now he is using a turban to wipe his tears.
Are you happy?
Today, 105 MLAs of the BJP should ask themselves if they are happy with what has happened today. Dada (Chandrakant Patil), you don’t drum treasury benches, don’t know even if you can get a berth (among new ministers). There are many from the Shiv Sena who have crossed over. I don’t know how many will get ministry. Eknathrao, we have worked together, but if you had told me in my ears, to tell Uddhav Thackeray to give you the remaining two-and-half-hours (for chief minister post), I would have told Uddhav Thackeray.

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