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BJP MLA Rahul Narvekar files nomination for Maharashtra Assembly Speaker

| @indiablooms | Jul 02, 2022, at 01:11 am

Mumbai/UNI: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Rahul Narvekar on Friday filed his nomination for the post of Maharashtra Assembly Speaker.

The elections for the Speaker's post will be held on Sunday as the two-day session of the state Assembly will be held on July 3 and 4.

The Speaker's post has been lying vacant since Congress leader Nana Patole resigned from the post last year. Deputy speaker Narhari Zirwal has been the acting Speaker.

Narvekar is a BJP MLA from Mumbai's Colaba constituency.

He had been associated with the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party in the past.

Narvekar is the son-in-law of Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar, a legislator from NCP and Chairman & Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Council.

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