BBC News, Delhi Uddhav Thackeray, the chief minister of India's richest state Maharashtra, resigned late on Wednesday after days of political uncertainty. He seems to have pre-empted the outcome.

He asked former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray if the reservation should exist or if the Uniform Civil Code should. Shah asked Uddhav to make his "stand clear" to the people of Maharashtra. Referring to the MVA government, Shah also said that Uddhav had "sat on the Nationalist Congress Party's lap".

23 - 26 June, 2022: Eknath Shinde was declared leader of the Shiv Sena legislature party after he, along with around 40 Sena MLAs, headed to the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states of Gujarat.

Two and a half years after he unexpectedly came to power by joining hands with the Congress and NCP, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray resigned late on Wednesday. The resignation came almost immediately after the Supreme Court allowed a floor test to be held in the state Assembly on Thursday.

New Delhi: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that Maharashtra today lost a sensitive and cultured chief minister today. Commenting on Uddhav Thackeray's resignation, Mr Raut said that the.

It is the same as when Balasaheb Thackeray died. We will fight back in the court and on the streets. We are working on strategies. They (Team Eknath Shinde) are trying to finish the Shiv.

After the Election Commission passed an interim order freezing the name and party symbol of the Shiv Sena on Saturday, ahead of the high-stakes by-election in Mumbai’s Andheri (East) constituency, Uddhav Thackeray had submitted his group’s preferences for the party symbol as well as their names. Uddhav had chosen Shiv Sena (Balasaheb.

Uddhav Thackeray ended his alliance post the 2019 Assembly polls. Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party was "scared" of his party chief Uddhav.

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The Uddhav Thackeray-led faction also received a new symbol — the ‘mashaal (flaming torch)’ — after the poll body had frozen the famous ‘bow and arrow’ symbol on Saturday. The EC has also asked the Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde bloc to submit three fresh preferences for the symbol by Tuesday.

On July 4, Eknath Shinde won the crucial floor test in the state Assembly with 164 votes polled in favour of him. BATTLE FOR SENA The Uddhav and Shinde factions then staked their claim over the party name, the election symbol and the legacy of Bal Thackeray. The matter eventually reached the Supreme Court.

New Delhi, India The Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena-NCP-Cong coalition in Maha lost power after a coup in the Sena by Eknath Shinde. (News18 creative using PTI photos) Eknath Shinde revolted against Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray last year with 39 MLAs and formed the government in Maharashtra with the support of the BJP.