Mumbai News Live Updates, February 2, 2023: Dnyaneshwar Mhatre from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Konkan teachers’ constituency seat as results for the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls were declared on Thursday. He defeated the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidate Balaram Patil. The counting for the remaining four seats — two graduate constituencies Amravati and Nashik and two other teachers constituencies Aurangabad, Nagpur and Konkan division — in the Maharashtra Legislative Council that went to polls on Monday is underway.
Meanwhile, Mumbai’s Air-Quality showed marginal improvement on Thursday morning as the SAFAR dashboard recorded 266. This comes a week after the city recorded a worse AQI above 300. The experts have stated, “now that winter is supposed to get over, the overall AQI is also expected to improve gradually in Mumbai…” Moreover, as of 08:30 am Thursday, the temperature in Mumbai was recorded to be around 26 degrees Celsius, according to the official website of the Regional Meteorological Center, Mumbai. Northeasterly winds prevailed at a speed of 5.4 km/h in the city.
In other news, the Bombay Lawyers Association approached the Bombay High Court with a PIL seeking action against Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju related to their public comments that show a “lack of faith in the Constitution by attacking institutions, including the Sup reme Court”. Rijiju has repeatedly questioned the Collegium system even as Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar recently raised the “basic structure” doctrine on the powers of the judiciary vis-a-vis the legislature. The PIL claimed that the conduct of the two executive officials has “lowered the prestige of the Supreme Court in public”.
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