Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Don’t heckle rebels, Uddhav tells Sainiks

After nine days of intense political turmoil, the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra collapsed late on Wednesday evening. Uddhav Thackeray resigned as chief minister of the three-party Shiv SenaNCP-Congress coalition minutes after the Supreme Court ruled that the floor test in the Maharashtra assembly would go ahead on Thursday. With the floor test no longer necessary after Thackeray’s resignation, governor B S Koshyari will soon invite leader of the opposition, BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, for formation of the new government. Fadnavis will return for his third term as CM, while Sena rebel leader Eknath Shinde, who walked away with 39 out of the party’s 55 MLAs, will likely be deputy CM. At least a dozen of Shinde’s supporters are likely to be accommodated in Fadnavis’s cabinet, sources said.