Disqualification pleas: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said that state Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will not be disqualified and in case that happens, he will be elected as an MLC and will retain his post, reported the PTI on Sunday.

According to the news agency, the Supreme Court on October 17 granted state assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar a final opportunity to give it a realistic time-frame for deciding the cross-petitions filed by rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs following a split in the party last year.