It was solely a matter of time earlier than Uddhav Thackeray would lastly step down because the Maharashtra Chief Minister after a number of of his MLAs left for the dissident Eknath Shinde camp, lowering his Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities to a minority within the state. The course of was additional exacerbated when the Supreme Court refused to remain the particular session summoned by the Governor on Friday to show that the Thackeray authorities nonetheless loved the boldness of the Vidhan Sabha. With a lack of face imminent, with 39 out of 55 Sena legislators already with Eknath Shinde, Thackeray determined to announce his resignation by means of an deal with on Facebook as an alternative of dealing with the no-confidence movement on the ground of the House. While crying “betrayal,” Thackeray stated that solely three ministers from his social gathering have been current on the cupboard assembly on Wednesday, which finally turned out to be his final.
While greater than two-third of his legislators went to the insurgent camp, there have been nonetheless 16, together with his son Aaditya, who backed him until the tip.
Here is the listing of MLAs who stood by Uddhav Thackeray until the very finish:
Aaditya Thackeray
Chimamrao Patil
Rahul Patil
Santosh Bangar
Vaibhav Naik
Sunil Raut
Ravindra Waikar
Sunil Prabhu
Dilip Lande
Prakash Phaterpekar
Sanjay Potnis
Ajay Chaudhary
Kailas Patil
Bhaskar Jadhav
Rajan Salvi
Uday Samant
The Maharashtra authorities plunged right into a disaster when Eknath Shinde, together with a number of different MLAs from Shiv Sena, left for Surat, quickly after the MLC ballot outcomes have been declared. The same development of Sena MLAs cross-voting for BJP candidates in Rajya Sabha was seen within the MLC elections as effectively. The Shinde camp referred to as the alliance between Shiv Sena and its MVA alliance companions NCP and Congress as “unnatural” one. Soon after, many MLAs began deserting the Uddhav camp, thus lowering it to a celebration of solely 16 MLAs from 55.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”