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Maha Vikas Aghadi’s Common Minimum Programme resembles UPA-era socialist budgets; makes all the right noises but implementation key
Dinesh Unnikrishnan123 •The recently-announced Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi reads like a hurriedly rewritten socialist budget that used to be common during the UPA years.
From keeping Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi govt together to tackling farm distress, challenges facing Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray
Fp Staff •Uddhav Thackeray, who will become the first member of the Thackeray clan to hold this political office, would be mindful of the bevy of challenges facing the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government.
Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance, in Common Minimum Programme for Maharashtra, vows to uphold secular values and promises farm loan waiver
Fp Staff •The common minimum programme for the Maharashtra government also states that an immediate farm loan waiver will be granted.
‘Will not take oath today. Only Chhagan Bhujbal, Jayant Patil will take oath,’ says Ajit Pawar after meeting of NCP leaders
•Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray will be sworn in as the chief minister at a ceremony to be held at the Shivaji Park
Maharashtra Govt Formation Updates: Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine's chief ministerial candidate Uddhav Thackeray stakes claim at Raj Bhavan
Fp Staff •Maharashtra Govt Formation Updates: Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine's chief ministerial nominee Uddhav Thackeray reached Raj Bhavan and staked claim to form government in Maharashtra.
'We also know Chanakyaniti': Sena, Congress, NCP slam BJP after Devendra Fadnavis resigns as Maharashtra chief minister
Fp Staff •Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis resigned on Tuesday, barely 80 hours after taking oath for the second time on Saturday, immediately after his deputy Ajit Pawar's gave his resignation citing 'personal reasons'
Devendra Fadnavis resigns as Maharashtra CM: With bruised BJP, shaky Shiv Sena, state heads for winter of discontent
Narayanan Madhavan •The image of Fadnavis as a sincere, straightforward statesman has come under a long shadow, evidently cast by political objects located in New Delhi, not Mumbai.
Devendra Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar resign as Maharashtra CM, Deputy CM: Timeline of events since revocation of President's Rule
Fp Staff •Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday resigned as Maharashtra chief minister, merely three days after taking over the post in an early-morning coup.
Maharashtra Govt Formation Updates: At Maha-Aghadi's show of strength at Mumbai's Grand Hyatt, 162 MLAs pledge loyalty to NCP-Congress-Shiv Sena
Fp Staff •Maharashtra Govt Formation Updates: Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress MLAs assembled at Hotel Grand Hyatt took a pledge, 'I swear that under the leadership of Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray and Sonia Gandhi, I will be honest to my party. I won't get lured by anything. I will not do anything which will benefit BJP.'
As uncertainty mounts in Maharashtra, Supreme Court says it will give its order on state government formation tomorrow
•Apex Court said while hearing the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combines plea against the governor's decision to swear in Devendra Fadnavis as chief minister