Maharashtra assembly’s special session to start from Dec 7; MLAs oath, speaker election on agenda

A three-day special session of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly will be held in Mumbai from December 7 to enable newly-elected MLAs to take oath and elect a speaker, legislature sources told news agency PTI on Wednesday.

The winter session of the state legislature will be held in Nagpur from December 16 to 21. The sources told PTI that newly-elected MLAs will be sworn-in on December 7 and 8.

On December 9, election for the speaker of the newly-constituted 15th assembly will be held and this will be followed by trust vote of the new Mahayuti government. At 4 pm, Governor CP Radhakrishnan will address a joint sitting of both houses of the legislature.

Later, both houses will be convened and a condolence motion to pay homage to departed members and tabling of the Governor’s address for discussion will be on the agenda, they said.

The sources told PTI that the agenda for holding the special session from December 7 will be placed before the cabinet on Thursday (December 5) after the new chief minister takes oath in the evening, 13 days post the declaration of assembly election results.

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