Nana Patole elected unopposed as Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly

In a dramatic turn of events, Maha Vikas Aghadi Speaker minee Nana Patole has been elected upposed as Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly on Sunday. This development occurred after BJP withdrew its minee Kisan Kathore out of race citing it did t want any controversy in Speaker election. Uddhav Thackeray-led government had minated Congress leader unanimously on Saturday ahead of floor test.

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BJP pulls out of Speaker race

Anuncing that BJP will be pulling out of Speaker race, BJP state President Chandrakant Patil said that Speaker will be elected upposed. He added that Fadnavis had decided to withdraw its minee keeping in mind decorum of post. Moreover, he said that BJP did t wish to create any controversy in Speaker election.

"Todays election of speaker will be upposed. leader of opposition has withdrawn its leader's name on looking at decorum of post. BJP has withdrawn name of its minee from speaker's post. Last night, leaders from govt requested that re should be controversy on this. We had minated name of Kisan Kathori who had secured maximum votes," he said.

Thackeray's Maha Vikas Aghadi wins Maharashtra floor test with 169 votes as BJP walks out

Maha Vikas Aghadi wins floor test

Two days after Maha Vikas Aghadi's leader Uddhav Thackeray was sworn-in as Chief Minister, Shiv-Sena-Congress-NCP government was successful in proving a majority by garnering 169 votes in floor test conducted on Saturday. As Opposition std a walkout - re were votes against alliance, while four chose to abstain from voting. BJP walked out of Assembly calling session invalid as he alleged that oath of Chief Minister and MLAs were t according to constitutional rms. floor test was initially supposed to be held on vember 27, according to Supreme Court's order.

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Uddhav takes oath as 1st Thackeray CM

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, who is first member of Thackeray clan to hold a Chief ministerial position took oath at 6:40 PM  on vember 30 at Shivaji Park after being unanimously selected as Maha Vikas Aghadi leader. All MLAs were sworn-in on Wednesday in a special session, including Devendra Fadnavis who stepped down as CM after Ajit Pawar rescinded his support to BJP-led government. BJP-Sena which fell out squabbling over a 50-50 power-sharing and shared CM post bagged 161 seats (BJP- 105, Shiv Sena-56), while Maha Aghadi won 98 seats (NCP -54, Congress).

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