Kalidas Kolambkar becomes pro-Tem Speaker as Maharashtra Legislative Assembly session begins

Mumbai: BJP MP for nine terms Kalidas Kolambkar was sworn in as pro-tem speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Friday, a day before the start of the three-day special session of the state Legislature’s lower house. Governor CP Radhakrishnan administered oath to him at Raj Bhavan. He was elected MP from the same constituency of Wadala for the ninth consecutive term; he has been a provincial deputy for the past 40 years. Kolambkar was an MP for the Shiv Sena, then the Congress and now the BJP.
As interim president, he will administer the oath of office to 288 newly elected MPs and lead the election of the president of the assembly during the three-day extraordinary session of the 15th assembly which begins on December 7. The election of the president will take place on December 9, followed by a vote of confidence by the Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government.
“The party has entrusted me with this responsibility. I will carry it out. I am the oldest. The party must therefore value me and give me a good position. Before, I was also interim president. I have been a deputy since 1990 . I have a world record so the party must think of me I also have expectations and the party must fulfill them I will not say no to a ministerial place. ) “Kolambkar. said after taking the oath.
Officials from the Guinness Book of Records also visited him to inscribe his name on the records for consecutive victories in nine legislative elections.
Kolambkar started by helping people in distress. He claimed the bodies and organized their transportation to villages in the Konkan and often organized blood donation camps. The son of a factory worker – his father worked as a time officer at Bombay Dyeing Mills – Kolambkar became gat pramukh, shakha pramukh, then corporator of Ward 42. He first became an MP on a Shiv Sena ticket from the ‘former assembly of Naigaon. constituency, renamed Wadala after delimitation in 2009.
The BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP Mahayuti coalition won 230 of the 288 Assembly seats in the November 20 elections. The winter session of the state legislative assembly will be held in Nagpur from December 16 to 21.
The election of the president of the new legislative assembly will take place on December 9. The newly elected deputies will take the oath of office on December 7 and 8 and the president will then be elected from among them. BJP functionaries said the party was ready to retain this crucial post and not hand it over to the Shiv Sena or the NCP.