Maharashtra Political Crisis / Uddhav resigns before floor test

Maharashtra Political Crisis: The political crisis of Maharashtra has now reached the last stage. The Supreme Court on Wednesday night rejected the arguments of Shiv Sena and ordered the floor test to be conducted on Thursday itself. Shortly after this, CM Uddhav Thackeray announced his resignation while doing Facebook Live. Thackeray has reached Raj Bhavan to resign. Here, the rebel MLAs also reached Goa late in the evening.

Uddhav spoke on the grievances of Shinde faction and said that you should have put your point properly. Uddhav said that those who were apprehensive of being deceived should stay together. He thanked Congress working president Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar.

Celebration in BJP camp

Here, after the announcement of Uddhav's resignation, there is an atmosphere of celebration among the BJP MLAs. Slogans of 'Vande Mataram' were raised at the meeting of BJP MLAs at Taj Hotel and many MLAs celebrated the fall of Mahavikas Aghadi government by feeding sweets to Devendra Fadnavis. After the meeting was over, Fadnavis left the hotel. He didn't even interact with the media.

BJP offered Deputy CM and minister posts to Shinde faction

According to sources, there is a churning going on between the Shinde faction and the BJP to form the government. BJP has offered 8 cabinet and 5 state ministers to Shinde faction. According to sources, Eknath Shinde has been named for the deputy CM. Gulabrao Patil, Sambhuraj Desai, Sanjay Shirsat, Deepak Kesarkar, Uday Samant can be made ministers.

Rebel MLAs reach Goa

The clan of rebel MLAs reached Goa late on Wednesday night. He left for Goa in the evening in a chartered plane from Guwahati. They had left the airport in four chartered buses from Radisson Blu Hotel and on the way they also showed the victory sign. Eknath Shinde had reached the Kamakhya Devi temple in the morning along with all the MLAs.

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Amidst the political struggle, the Uddhav government has replaced Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey with Vivek Phansalkar as the new commissioner. The new appointment has been made after Pandey's retirement. Apart from this, the Municipal Commissioner of Aurangabad city has also been changed. Sangli District Magistrate Dr. Abhijit Choudhary has been made Municipal Commissioner of Aurangabad.

According to the instructions of the Governor, security arrangements are also being made for the special session to be held on Thursday. For this, about 5 thousand forces from DCP to SRPF rank have been deployed. Apart from this, for the safety of the rebel MLAs on their arrival in Mumbai, about 2 thousand CRPF personnel have been sent to Mumbai by special flight.

Shiv Sena has suffered a major setback in Pune district amid the rebellion of Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde. Vijay Shivtare, a former Shiv Sena MLA from Purandar and a former minister, has announced to join the Eknath Shinde faction. Sanjay Raut has compared the rebels with Aurangzeb. He also praised Uddhav Thackeray's work so far.

The Uddhav cabinet has changed the name of Aurangabad district to Sambhaji Nagar and Osmanabad to Dharashiv. Apart from this, Navi Mumbai Airport has been named DY Patil Airport. The SP has opposed the name change.

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What did the Supreme Court say on the floor test?

During the hearing of the petition of rebel MLAs in the Supreme Court, Shivsena's lawyer Devdat Kamat had mentioned about the floor test, on which the court said that we are not saying anything on this. If something like this happens, you can come to court. Shinde has filed a petition regarding the cancellation of membership notice to 16 MLAs and the issue of no-confidence motion against the deputy speaker.