{"id":317208,"date":"2019-11-28T04:57:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T04:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317208"},"modified":"2019-11-28T04:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T04:57:05","slug":"maharashtra-government-formation-uddhav-thackeray-just-hours-away-from-becoming-next-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-government-formation-uddhav-thackeray-just-hours-away-from-becoming-next-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Government formation: Uddhav Thackeray just hours away from becoming next CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-shiv-sena-moves-mlas-to-hotel\/uddhav\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-316512\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-316512 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/uddhav-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-494x420.jpg 494w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a>Two days after Devendra Fadnavis resignation from the post of Chief Minister, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray is finally set to take oath at Mumbai&#8217;s Shivaji Park as Chief Minister of a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The important occasion came after weeks of tug of war and political twists and turns over government formation in the state. It saw the Sena and its ally BJP breaking their long ties over the chief minister\u2019s post, followed by the coming together of the Sena, NCP and the Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Several political leaders will be attending the mega event. However, interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi\u2019s attendance at the ceremony has not yet been confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Thousands of policemen will be deployed at the Shivaji Park in Mumbai&#8217;s Dadar for the swearing in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">NCP&#8217;s Praful Patel on Wednesday evening announced that the deputy chief minister of the alliance will be from his party and the speaker from the Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On Tuesday, Devendra Fadnavis resigned shortly after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar quit as his deputy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The resignations came after the Supreme Court ordered an immediate floor test, to be telecast live, so that BJP\u2019s Fadnavis could prove his majority in the assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The BJP-led government fell within four days of being sworn in on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after Devendra Fadnavis resignation from the post of Chief Minister, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray is finally set to take oath at Mumbai&#8217;s Shivaji Park as Chief Minister of a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government. The important occasion came after weeks of tug of war and political twists and turns over government formation in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":316512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1467,513,2691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317209,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317208\/revisions\/317209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}