<span style="color: #222222;">The Maharashtra legislative assembly secretariat has started the procedure of serving notices to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs after the disqualification petitions filed by both factions of the party.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Speaking to media persons in Mumbai, the Speaker of the Maharashtra legislative assembly Rahul Narvekar said that all the MLAs have been asked to submit their responses within a week, as is the normal procedure.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">After a split led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, disqualification petitions were filed against 40 of 53 MLAs and five MLCs by the Sharad Pawar faction. In retaliation, the Ajit Pawar faction too filed disqualification petitions against 10 MLAs from the opposite camp.</span><br />