Soon after Ajit Pawar resigned as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has claimed that the rebel NCP leader is back in the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP alliance. "Ajit dada has resigned and he is with us. Uddhav Thackeray will be the chief minister of Maharashtra for five years," Raut said.
Meanwhile, a meeting is currently underway between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, who is also the Union home minister, and the party's working president J.P. Nadda in light of the Supreme Court order on Maharashtra on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that a floor test for Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to prove his majority in the Assembly be conducted on Wednesday.
The BJP and the Sena, which fought the last month's Assembly polls in an alliance, secured a comfortable majority by winning 105 and 56 seats respectively.
The Sena, however, broke its three-decade-long ties with the BJP after the latter declined to share the chief minister's post.
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The NCP and Congress won 54 and 44 seats respectively.
Amid a political stalemate that went on for close to a month, the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari as the next Chief Minister early on Saturday morning, with Ajit Pawar as his deputy. Koshyari administered the oath of office to the two leaders in a hush hush ceremony at the Raj Bhavan, setting off political ripples across parties in the state.
