Mumbai: Shiv Sena: chief Uddhav Thackeray will be sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister in the Shivaji Park on December 1, NCP chief Sharad Pawar announced on Tuesday hours after Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar resigned from CM and deputy CM posts. The Sena-NCP-Congress MLAs met at Trident hotel and passed a resolution appointing Uddhav as CM nominee of their front. The MLAs also passed the resolution to form ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’, the three-party alliance in Maharashtra.

Fadnavis said announcing his intent to resign. “We realised we don’t have the numbers and we don’t want to indulge in horse-trading,” he said

Earlier in the day, Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar resigned as the chief minister and deputy chief minister respectively hours after the Supreme Court passed an order directing floor test in the state. “We do not have a majority after Ajit Pawar’s resignation,” Fadnavis said announcing his intent to resign. “We realised we don’t have the numbers and we don’t want to indulge in horse-trading,” he said. 

Addressing the press, Fadnavis said the poll mandate was for the BJP more so than the Shiv Sena, adding that no discussions were held with the former ally on a rotational CM post. “We won more than 70 per cent seats while Sena won around 40 percent seats,” he said. In the 288-member Assembly, the BJP won 105 seats while the Sena won 56.