Pending before Narwekar are also disqualification petitions of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs, in which he aims to deliver a verdict by January 30. The Sharad Pawar-founded party suffered a split in July 2023 when a section of MLAs, led by now deputy CM Ajit Pawar, joined the Shinde-led government.
The political uncertainty comes at a time civic polls are overdue in Mumbai and Maharashtra polls are due in the second half of 2024.