Maharashtra Cabinet: In its first meeting, the state cabinet recommended to the Governor that the assembly session for administering the oath to newly elected MLAs be scheduled from December 7 to 9.
Maharashtra CM Oath Ceremony: With the commencement of the oath-taking ceremony, Mahayuti formed the government in Maharashtra. The BJP bagged 132 constituencies, the highest among all constituents of the Mahayuti. Shinde's Shiv Sena won 57 seats, while Ajit Pawar's NCP 41 seats.
Devendra Fadnavis oath-taking ceremony: BJP legislature party leader Devendra Fadnavis would take oath as chief minister, while Shinde and NCP chief Ajit Pawar would be sworn in as his deputies.
Maharashtra government formation: Shiv Sena president Eknath Shinde will be taking oath as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra at the swearing-in ceremony in Mumbai today.
Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis was on Wednesday unanimously elected as Maharashtra BJP legislature party’s leader, paving the way for his swearing-in as the chief minister for a third time.
Maharashtra govt formation: Recovering from its Lok Sabha elections losses, the BJP bagged 132 constituencies, the highest among all constituents of the Mahayuti. Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP also performed well. Sena won 57 while NCP won 41 seats.
Eknath Shinde will be the next Chief Minister of Maharashtra, not Devendra Fadnavis, announced the BJP leader on Thursday. Shinde, the rebel Shiv Sena leader, will be sworn in at 7pm.
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."
The final list of reallocated porfolios in Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi government is out. As per the new allocation, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar gets finance ministry while Anil Deshmukh, also of the NCP will be the Home minister. Congress' Balasaheb Thorat gets revenue ministry. Check full list here.
A month-long drama surrounding Maharashtra politics came to an end on Saturday as Uddhav Thackeray won the floor test and proved his majority in the house with the support of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress party. This, however, did not happen before a tough stand by the BJP. Devendra Fadnavis and his MLAs walked out of the assembly in dramatic fashion before the floor test. This walkout was staged over alleged violation of established norms by the new government.
Fadnavis and Pawar had resigned from their posts after the Supreme Court ordered the floor test the next day. They were sworn-in as chief minister and deputy chief minister on Saturday morning. Their resignation paved the way for the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance to stake claim to form the next government with Uddhav Thackeray at its helm.
Earlier in the day, a joint press conference addressed by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde along with the NCP's Jayant Patil and Nawab Malik had cited "farmer issues" as one of the main priorities of the coalition government.
The Shiv Sena recently came together with the NCP and Congress to form a government after falling out with its long-term ally BJP over the issue of the chief minister's post following the last month's state Assembly polls.
Soon after NCP leader Ajit Pawar resigned from his post of deputy chief minister in Maharashtra on Tuesday, Devendra Fadnavis too tendered his resignation from the post of the chief minister. Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray will be sworn in as the chief minister of Maharashtra today.
Bal Thackeray founded the Shiv Sena in 1966 to advocate for the interests of the people of Maharashtra in Mumbai's political and professional landscape. He was also the founder of the Marathi language newspaper 'Saamana' and did not hold any official positions during his political career.
With just over 24 hours to go for the swearing-in ceremony of Maharashtra's CM-Designate, Uddhav Thackeray has got a boost with Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) joining the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress' Aghadi government with its 3 MLAs.
Solanki had reportedly been upset since Sena, NCP and Congress MLAs gathered at a five-star hotel in Mumbai for a show of strength were made to take a pledge of allegiance to their parties.
Senior Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Pradeep Mathur on Wednesday called Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari a "BJP agent" and demanded his dismissal for dragging the office of the President into controversy. Mathur, the former leader of the Congress legislature party in Uttar Pradesh also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for revoking president's rule in Maharashtra without calling a cabinet meeting.
The NCP has announced that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray would be the next chief minister of Maharashtra. He will be sworn in CM on Thursday evening at Shivaji Park in Dadar, the place where his party holds traditional Dussehra rally each year.
Ajit Pawar on Tuesday resigned as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, citing "personal reason", following which Fadnavis too stepped down as chief minister, leading to collapse of the BJP-led government.
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