Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Monday won the trust vote in the state assembly and is set to head the state government for the next two and a half years.
Shiv Sena leader Shinde, whose coup toppled the previous government of his party chief Uddhav Thackeray, got 164 votes in his favour, comfortably above the 144 required in the 288-seat assembly. Counting is still on.
Shinde will be in charge of the government with former BJP chief minister Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy.
Shinde was sworn in as chief minister last Thursday, capping a 10-day-long rebellion against Uddhav Thackeray who he blamed for moving away from the party’s principles by aligning with ideologically mismatched parties.
The previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was a mishmash of the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.
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