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After the resignation of BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis as Chief Minister, the buoyant and confident Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance on Tuesday evening picked Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray as their nominee for Maharashtra chief minister’s post. He will be sworn in on November 28 .
Thackeray will be the first member of his family to occupy the top political post in the state. He had promised his late father Shiv Sena Supremo and founder Bal Thackeray that one day a Shiv Sainik will become CM. Now he has fulfilled that dream.
Mumbai: Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray paid tribute to party founder & his father Balasaheb Thackeray, at Matoshree (Thackeray residence), after getting elected as ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ (NCP-Congress-Shiv Sena alliance) CM candidate, today. #Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/DKQdiRIK2Y
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The decision was taken at a joint meeting of the three parties at a suburban hotel here, hours after four-day-old Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Devendra Fadnavis and supported by NCP’s Ajit Pawar collapsed.
Maharashtra NCP chief Jayant Patil proposed Thackeray’s name as ‘the (next) chief minister’.
State Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat seconded the proposal.
The meeting was attended by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, senior party leader Praful Patel, Congress leader Ashok Chavan, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana’s Raju Shetti, Samajwadi Party’s Abu Azmi, MLAs of all these parties and others.
The three parties named their alliance as ‘Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi’.
