Mumbai: After days of political uncertainty, the newly elected MLAs to the Maharashtra Assembly have taken oath at the special Assembly session convened by the Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. The designated Chief Minister of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance, Uddhav Thackeray, will take oath tomorrow.
Yesterday, Devendra Fadnavis resigned from the post of Chief Minister following a Supreme Court order to prove majority by 5 pm Wednesday. NCP leader, Ajit Pawar, who was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister was the first to resign from the post.
The unlikely alliance between Shiv Sena and the NCP-Congress combine came after the Sena demanded from the BJP the Chief Minister post. After BJP refused to cave into the demands of the Sena, the Thackeray family patriarch, Uddhav Thackeray, stitched a hasty alliance with the opposite camp.
The Congress and the NCP had little qualms in accepting a Hindu nationalist party into its folds, in a bid to capture power in the state. Though the people of Maharashtra had voted for a nationalist government of BJP-Shiv Sena combine, they must be satisfied with the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the alliance of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress.
