Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray along with his cabinet, in Mumbai, on Nov 28. 2019. (Photograph: PTI)
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Nov 30, 2019
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government of the Shiv Sena- Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance faces a floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly today.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi won the floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly. 169 members of the legislative assembly voted in favour, with none against while four abstained from voting.
Devendra Fadnavis led the BJP contingent in the Assembly to stage a walkout from the floor of the House. He addressed the media outside the house, and reiterated his charges that the change in the pro-tem speaker as well as the oath taken by the ministers on Thursday evening were unconstitutional.
The Pro-Tem Speaker in the Maharashtra Assembly is carrying out a head count of members in the Vidhan Sabha, as part of the procedure mandated by the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday.
When the house convened, senior NCP leader Dilip Walse-Patil took the speaker’s chair, and said that the governor had appointed him as pro-tem speaker. Fadnavis pointed out that earlier in the week, the governor had appointed Kalidas Kolambkar as the pro-tem speaker, when MLAs took oath in the assembly. Walse-Patil said that was a one-day session which had concluded. Fadnavis countered with the precedent that a member appointed pro-tem speaker stays in place until the election of a full-time speaker.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government of the Shiv Sena- Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance faces a floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly today.
Over the last few days, the new government has said that it has the numbers to clear this floor test easily.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday announced stay on construction of metro car shed project in the city's green lung Aarey Colony, where protests were held last month against cutting of trees for the work.
A Supreme Court bench had last month sought a status report with pictures on plantation, transplantation and felling of trees in Aarey colony area.
He took a dig at his predecessor, Fadnavis, over the his “I will come again (as chief minister)" refrain during the poll campaign, saying, "I didn't announce that I will become chief minister.”
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray was been sworn-in as chief minister on Nov. 28
Thackeray was anointed the leader of a three-way alliance between Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Congress—the Maha Vikas Aghadi—on Tuesday night soon after Bharatiya Janata Party’s Devendra Fadnavis resigned following an 80-hour stint as the chief minister.
Soon after taking oath, Thackeray held his first cabinet meeting at the Sahyadri Guest House.
The cabinet, in the first meeting, is supposed to decide on calling a special session of the Assembly to elect full-time Speaker who will conduct floor test, a senior IAS officer said.
