{"id":317230,"date":"2019-11-28T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317230"},"modified":"2019-11-28T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:32:52","slug":"maharashtra-uddhav-thackeray-takes-oath-as-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-uddhav-thackeray-takes-oath-as-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray takes oath as Chief Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-uddhav-thackeray-takes-oath-as-chief-minister\/uddhav-thackeray-cm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317235\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-317235 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-1068x800.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm-561x420.jpg 561w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-thackeray-cm.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a>Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra at Shivaji Park in Mumbai in a sprawling ceremony attended by Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath, DMK chief MK Stalin, MNS Chief Raj Thackeray, Chairman of Reliance industries Mukesh Ambani among other top politicians and industrialists from Maharashtra and rest of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">From Shiv Sena Eknath Shinde and Subhash desai also took oath of office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal took oath of office along with Jayant Patil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">From Congress Balasaheb Thorat and Nitin Raut took oath of office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">After taking oath, Uddhav became the first member from the Thackeray family to assume the chief minister&#8217;s post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier today, the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance released the common minimum programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Two days after Devendra Fadnavis resignation from the post of Chief Minister, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray took oath at Mumbai\u2019s Shivaji Park as Chief Minister of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"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=\"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=\"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=\"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>Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra at Shivaji Park in Mumbai in a sprawling ceremony attended by Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath, DMK chief MK Stalin, MNS Chief Raj Thackeray, Chairman of Reliance industries Mukesh Ambani among other top politicians and industrialists from Maharashtra and rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":317235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1380,1467,71,513,12097,2691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317230"}],"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=317230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317240,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317230\/revisions\/317240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}