Raut's statement comes after Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar reinstated Shinde as the Shiv Sena legislature party leader, removing Ajay Chaudhary.
Sharad Pawar pointed out that the failure of the Eknath Shinde government will lead to several rebel MLAs returning to their original party.
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.
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.
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.
The Shiv Sena accused the BJP of gaining power in the state through immoral means and asked why the party did not honour the pact of rotational chief minister in 2019 if Fadnavis had to take oath as the deputy chief minister.
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.
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.
Maharashtra Crisis: The Sena leader Eknath Shinde rebelled against the Uddhav-led MVA government on the pretext of Hindutva, accusing Thackeray that the party under him deviated from its Hindutva ideology, the path shown by Bal Thackeray.
Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde was on Thursday sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister, while BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis took oath as deputy Chief Minister. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administered the oath of office to them at Raj Bhavan in south Mumbai shortly after 7.30 pm.
Eknath Shinde said that the BJP has 120 MLAs but despite that Devendra Fadnavis didn't take the post of CM. I express my gratitude to him.
Thackeray quit the top post on Wednesday night, capping over a week-long drama that unfolded after senior minister Eknath Shinde raised the banner of revolt against the party with majority of MLAs joining him.
The MNS leader took to Twitter on Thursday, and wrote: "When anyone misunderstands one's good fortune as one's personal accomplishment;therein begins the journey towards one's decline."
Deepak Kesarkar, currently in Panaji, said that removing party supremo Uddhav Thackeray from the Chief Minister's chair was never their intention, adding that they will talk to him if he walks out of the MVA.
Uddhav has now made it clear that although he has vacated the chief minister's chair, he will now be sitting at the Shiv Sena Bhavan, the party's headquarters, to meet the party leaders and workers.
Maharashtra crisis: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday tweeted an illustration indicating how the party's own leaders backstabbed the CM.
Sanjay Raut is considered to be a loyalist of party supremo Uddhav Thackeray. He was the most vocal voice during the factional fight of Shiv Sena.
A chartered flight carrying the breakaway MLAs landed at the Dabolim airport in Goa on Wednesday night from Guwahati. They are staying in a luxury hotel at Dona Paula.
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