Eknath Shinde, who has been claiming the support of 40 rebel Shiv Sena legislators said that he expects the government to be successful in the floor test like the Speaker's election.
Maharashtra Floor Test: The BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde camp) government held office on Thursday after Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis took as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, a day after Uddhav Thackeray resigned as CM.
Maharashtra became the only state in India where the presiding officers of the Legislature are in-laws. BJP MLA Rahul Narvekar has become the new Speaker of the Assembly. His father-in-law Ramraje Naik of NCP is the chairperson of the Legislative Council.
The post of Speaker was vacant since February last year after Nana Patole of Congress quit.
Several environmental organisations have called for a peaceful protest at Aarey forest on Sunday morning and hundreds of Mumbaikars are likely to gather at the picnic point in the area
On Friday, Uddhav Thackeray had said that had Union Home Minister Amit Shah kept his word of rotating the top post in the state in 2019, the BJP would have been steering the government now.
NCP spokesman Mahesh Tapase said BJP had termed the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi govt as a "three-wheel auto-rickshaw" pulling in different directions when the new dispensation headed by Shiv Sena rebel Shinde itself resembled a two-wheeler.
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde said the main aim of his government is to free the state of farmer suicides for which a slew of decisions will be taken.
In a letter issued by the Shiv Sena, Thackeray said that Shinde has been indulging in "anti-party activities" and has voluntarily given up his membership.
Fadnavis, who had on Thursday announced that he would not be part of the new Eknath Shinde-led government but later took oath as deputy chief minister, did not attend the celebration.
The ex-CM said that the original deal for the 2019 elections was that the Sena leader would be CM for 2.5 years, and he would've stepped down to pave way for a BJP CM.
Eknath Shinde is a Shiv Sainik, a close associate of his party founder Balasaheb Thackeray. Shinde has come to power in the name of Hindutva.
A trust vote is also likely to be held during the two-day special assembly session.
The Bombay High Court in September 2019, verbally directed the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited and the state govt not to cut any trees in the Aarey forest area for the construction of a metro car shed, to which they agreed.
On June 29, the top court refused to stay the direction of the Maharashtra Governor to the 31-month-old MVA govt to take a floor test in the Assembly on Thursday to prove its majority after which the beleaguered chief minister Uddhav Thackeray quit office.
The newly sworn-in Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde thanked PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis for reposing faith in him.
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Kangana Ranaut congratulated Eknath Shinde, who was on Thursday sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister. On the other hand, BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis took oath as deputy Chief Minister.
Maharashtra Political Crisis: While rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde was sworn in as the new chief minister of Maharashtra following the collapse of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government, Devendra Fadnavis, a former CM who had said he would remain outside, took oath as Shinde's deputy.
On Wednesday night, Uddhav Thackeray resigned from the post of Maharashtra Chief Minister soon after Supreme Court refused to stay a floor test in the assembly.
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