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On February 17 this year, the Election Commission had ordered that the party’s name Shiv Sena and election symbol arrow-bow would remain with the Eknath Shinde faction.
Eknath Shinde will remain the CM of Maharashtra. The climax of Maharashtra’s political drama, which has been going on for 11 months, took place on 11 May 2023 in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said that Uddhav Thackeray did not face the floor test. He resigned of his own free will, so the court cannot restore the old government.
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Elections were held in 2019 on 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra. BJP became the single largest party in the state with 106 MLAs. Shiv Sena and BJP could not talk about the Chief Minister’s post in the alliance. Shiv Sena with 56 MLAs joined hands with Congress with 44 MLAs and NCP with 53 MLAs to form Maha Vikas Aghadi.
Shinde was among those Shiv Sena leaders who were against forming a government with the Congress. In 2019, Uddhav made Shinde the leader of the legislative party. At that time it was believed that Shinde would become the CM of Maharashtra, but NCP and Congress wanted to make Uddhav the Chief Minister. In this way, Shinde kept on becoming the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
In May 2022, Urban Development Minister and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde rebelled along with 39 MLAs in the Maharashtra government. Eknath Shinde took advantage of the Nabam Rebia case of Manipur, in which the Supreme Court had formed the government of rebel MLAs. Simultaneously, Shinde gave a notice of no-confidence motion against the Deputy Speaker in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. So that the Deputy Speaker could not take a decision on the disqualification of 16 MLAs of Shinde faction.
Meanwhile, the governor asked Uddhav Thackeray to prove his majority. Uddhav went to the Supreme Court against this, but the Supreme Court upheld the Governor’s decision. After this Uddhav had resigned. The Governor has now asked the Shinde faction to prove its majority immediately.
Read the story of the most important days of this event…
20 June 2022: When the elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council were held. Eknath Shinde of Shiv Sena went out of touch with the party soon after the voting. Later it is learned that Shinde and 11 MLAs had gone to Surat.
21 June 2022: Fearing cross-voting in the Legislative Council elections, Uddhav Thackeray called a meeting of all Shiv Sena MLAs. Shinde removed as leader of Shiv Sena Legislature Party
22 June 2022: Uddhav Thackeray left the CM residence amidst political drama. In an emotional message, he said that if my own people do not want to see me as the Chief Minister, then I will leave the chair. But can you assure me that the next chief minister will be from Shiv Sena only?
22 June 2022: Shinde moved to Guwahati, Assam with 40 MLAs. Eknath Shinde demonstrated strength by releasing photos with 42 Shiv Sena and 7 Independent MLAs at Guwahati Five Star Hotel.
23 June 2022 : Shinde was declared the leader of the Shiv Sena Legislature Party by the rebel camp. Following Shiv Sena’s petition, Deputy Speaker Narhari Jirwal served disqualification notices to the 16 rebel MLAs. On the same day, Uddhav Thackeray moved out of his official CM residence ‘Varsha’ in South Mumbai. and shifted to Matoshree, the private bungalow of the Thackeray family in Bandra.
23 June 2022: Eknath Shinde reached Guwahati with rebel MLAs. Hotel Radisson here was converted into a fort for security. Shinde made a show of strength by releasing photographs with these MLAs.
29 June 2022 : Uddhav Thackeray resigns as chief minister, bringing curtains down on nine days of political turmoil triggered by a rebellion by the Shinde group.
The Supreme Court had told Uddhav Thackeray that he would have to prove the next day that his government still had a majority. Thackeray resigned minutes after this decision.
In an 18-minute Facebook live session, Uddhav said that I am ready to leave all the posts including the Chief Minister, party president. Just whatever demands the angry MLAs have, they would have come forward and said.
30 June 2022 : Within 24 hours of Uddhav Thackeray’s resignation as Maharashtra CM via Facebook, Shinde was sworn in as CM and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis as Deputy CM.
29 June 2022: Shinde went to visit the Kamakhya Devi temple in Guwahati. He told the media that there are 50 MLAs with me and we are ready for the floor test on June 30.
3 July 2022 : A two-day special session of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly was called. BJP MLA Rahul Narvekar was elected speaker.
4 July 2022 : Shinde won the assembly by 164 votes and 99 votes in his favour.
8 October 2022 : Ahead of the Andheri (East) assembly by-election on 3 November, the Election Commission ordered the freezing of the Shiv Sena’s ‘Tir Kaman’ election symbol. After this, the Thackeray faction was given the burning torch election symbol and the name “Shiv Sena- Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray”. The Shinde faction was given the name “Balasahebchi Shiv Sena” and the election symbol of two swords and a shield.
Eknath Shinde went to the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari with a proposal to form a new government in Maharashtra with the support of the BJP. Koshyari fed them sweets.
17 February 2023 : The Election Commission ordered that the name of the party ‘Shiv Sena’ and the election symbol of the party ‘bow and arrow’ would remain with the Eknath Shinde faction. The commission found that the present constitution of Shiv Sena is undemocratic. Because the Uddhav group had undemocratically appointed its people as office bearers without conducting elections.
20 February 2023 : Eventually, the Shiv Sena party office in Vidhan Bhavan was also handed over to the Shinde faction.
21 February 2023 : The Supreme Court had heard the case related to the political crisis of Maharashtra for 9 consecutive days. On March 16, after the arguments of all the parties were completed, the court had reserved the decision. Even then the court had said that Uddhav has resigned, now how to reinstate?
11 May 2023: The Supreme Court said that by restoring the Mahavikas Aghadi government, Uddhav cannot be ordered to be made the Chief Minister again as he did not even face the floor test.
The possibility came true – Uddhav’s resignation did him a disservice
Shinde, who went to Goa with 49 rebel MLAs, released a photo. After this speculations were made that if Uddhav resigns then the path of Shinde and BJP will become easier. The governor will invite the single largest party, the BJP, to form the new government. BJP will form the new government along with the Shinde camp.
Apart from all this, there was another possibility that Shinde camp has the support of Shiv Sena MPs as well. Taking all this, he can go to the Election Commission and stake a claim on the symbol of Shiv Sena. That’s what happened. Subsequently, on February 17, 2023, the Election Commission ordered that the name of the party ‘Shiv Sena’ and the election symbol of the party ‘bow and arrow’ would remain with the Eknath Shinde faction.
On both March 16 and May 11, the Supreme Court said that Uddhav had resigned voluntarily. In such a situation, the court cannot cancel the resignation.