Thane MLA Eknath Shinde was on Thursday sworn in as Maharashtra Chief Minister, while Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis took oath as Deputy Chief Minister. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administered the oath of office to them at Raj Bhavan in south Mumbai shortly after 7.30 pm.

Shinde began by paying tributes to late Shiv Sena leaders Bal Thackeray and Anand Dighe. His supporters shouted slogans hailing Thackeray and Dighe as he finished taking the oath. Earlier on Thursday, BJP president JP Nadda said Fadnavis would be part of the new Maharashtra cabinet led by Shinde, minutes after Fadnavis announced he will not be in the government.

Here are the highlights of political developments from Maharashtra:

Mumbai | Senior officers of Army, Navy, Air Force and NDRF departments attended the meeting of Disaster Management Department. The team is alert to ensure that there is no harm to the public due to the massive rain: Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde pic.twitter.com/MVGrmLsK2O

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#Osmanabad as Dharashiv: Muslim workers of Congress, NCP quit parties in protest

Some Muslim office-bearers of the Congress and NCP on Friday said they had resigned from their parties in protest against the Maharashtra government's decision to rename Osmanabad as Dharashiv. Hours before Uddhav Thackeray resigned as Maharashtra chief minister on Wednesday, the Maha Vikas Aghadi cabinet, which also included Congress and NCP ministers, approved the renaming of Aurangabad as Sambhajinagar and Osmanabad as Dharashiv.

Several functionaries said they has submitted a memorandum against the renaming to the collector for further communication to the governor, while there were also plans to go to court over the issue.

#Monsoon: Coordination among agencies must, says CM; hails officials for keeping Mumbai moving amid 275 mm rain

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday said coordination among various agencies was necessary in times of disaster and they must ensure there is no loss of life at any cost. Speaking at a meeting of the state disaster management authority, Shinde said officials of all agencies should be on the field so that staff are alert and vigilant. Praising the Army and the National Disaster Response Force for the work done during the monsoon in the state last year, Shinde, who took the oath of office on Thursday, said there must not be any lack of communication and dialogue among agencies.

War rooms must be set up at the district collector level and municipal offices to resolve grievances of people expeditiously, and the administration should be vigilant at landslide prone sites, Shinde said. Municipalities should ensure residents of dangerous buildings are shifted to temporary tenements and are well looked after, he added.

Uddhav Thackeray is a big stature leader and we won’t speak against him. We will speak to him at the right time. All the misunderstandings will be sorted out: Maharashtra Shiv Sena MLA Deepak Kesarkar, in Goa pic.twitter.com/OFjCJITUYR

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Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde chaired a meeting of the State disaster management department in Mantralaya, Mumbai in the presence of Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis pic.twitter.com/4sXXopzC7z

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#Maharashtra Congress slams Shinde govt's move on metro carshed in Mumbai's Aarey

The Maharashtra Congress on Friday said the Eknath Shinde government's decision on building a metro carshed in Mumbai's Aarey forest was its first blow on the city as the move played with the health of people here. Considering the environmental damage (of tree cutting and construction in a green lung), it was decided the carshed of Metro Line 3 will be built in Kanjurmarg instead of Aarey, Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole told reporters here.

"The newly formed government is playing with the health of Mumbaikars by insisting that the carshed be made in Aarey. Environmentalists and Mumbaikars are strongly opposed to this and thousands of people had staged massive protests against the then Fadnavis government," he said. The move to change the carshed to Kanjurmarg was obstructed by the BJP-led Centre (over ownership details), he said

#Bullet train project hopes to ride out Maharashtra roadblocks after change in govt

The change of government in Maharashtra may fasttrack the bullet train project with railway officials expecting a land acquisition file stuck on the state's chief minister's desk to move now, a petrol pump to be shifted to build a tunnel, and a back-and-forth over payment for a "prime land" settled. The 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor is being built at an estimated cost of Rs 1.1 trillion and will have 12 stations in Maharashtra and Gujarat.

#BJP's Narvekar files nomination for speaker's post

BJP MLA Rahul Narvekar filed the nomination on Friday for the post of Assembly Speaker. Election for the post, if needed, will be held on Saturday, when the special two-day session of the House begins. The position has been vacant since Nana Patole of Congress resigned in February last year. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will table a motion of confidence in the Assembly on July 4, the official, a senior functionary in Vidhan Bhawan, said.

#Fadnavis holds meeting on OBC reservation

Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis held a meeting regarding OBC reservation in Mantralaya, Mumbai

Maharashtra Chief Secretary Manukumar Srivastava, BJP leader Pravin Darekar and Dr Sanjay Kute were present pic.twitter.com/jwSJ9RV8xn— ANI (@ANI) July 1, 2022

#NCP leader Dhananjay Munde meets Fadnavis

NCP leader Dhananjay Munde met newly-appointed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis hours after the swearing-in ceremony, a close aide of Munde said on Friday. The meeting took place at Fadnavis's residence here late Thursday night and lasted for about half an hour, he claimed. Earlier on Thursday, a new government headed by rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde with Fadnavis as his deputy came to power in the state. Munde, who was minister for social justice in the previous Sena-NCP-Congress government, was originally with the BJP, but quit the party after falling out with his uncle and senior BJP leader late Gopinath Munde. Munde is known to have a good rapport with Fadnavis. He is also known for being close to senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar.

#BJP may hold meeting on speaker election

Maha BJP MLAs likely to hold meeting to deliberate on Assembly Speaker candidate

Read @ANI Story | https://t.co/8u44wBNDbS#Maharashtracrisis #BJP #AssemblySpeaker pic.twitter.com/56b1EVT8Fe— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) July 1, 2022

#Uddhav Thackeray wonders why BJP refused to give CM post to Shiv Sena in 2019

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday questioned the BJP's decision to install a "so-called Shiv Sainik" as Maharashtra chief minister when it did not keep its 2019 promise of rotating the top post. Addressing a press conference at Shiv Sena Bhavan, the party headquarters at Dadar in central Mumbai, Thackeray also made a fervent appeal to the Ekanth Shinde-led government not to go ahead with the Metro-3 car shed project at Aarey Colony. In their first cabinet meeting held on Thursday, Shinde and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis directed the state administration to submit a proposal to build the Metro-3 car shed in Aarey Colony instead of Kanjurmarg. The Thackeray-led government had shifted the proposed car shed site to Kanjurmarg from Aarey Colony, but it got embroiled in a legal dispute.

# Uddhav Thackeray meets party workers at Shiv Sena Bhawan

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray meets party workers at Shiv Sena Bhawan pic.twitter.com/zelpjT1Sij

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# Eknath Shinde not a Shiv Sena CM, says Uddhav Thackeray

"The manner in which the government has been formed and a so-called Shiv Sena worker has been made the Chief Minister, I had said the same to Amit Shah. This could have been done respectfully. The Shiv Sena was officially with you (at that time). This CM (Eknath Shinde) is not a Shiv Sena CM," says Thackeray.

"About what happened yesterday, I had told Amit Shah earlier as well that there should be a Shiv Sena CM for 2.5 years (during the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance). Had they done this earlier, there would've been no Maha Vikas Aghadi," adds Thackeray.

# Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will chair a meeting of the State disaster management department at 5 pm today in Mantralaya, Mumbai.

# Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar today met Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis at the latter's residence Sagar Bungalow in Mumbai.

Maharashtra | Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar today met Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis at the latter's residence Sagar Bungalow in Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/6Tat3uUIUP

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# Special Session of Maharashtra Assembly to be held on July 3 and 4. On July 2, the nomination for Speaker's election will be filed. On July 3, Speaker's election will be held and on July 4, Vote of Confidence will be taken.

# Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut arrives at the Enforcement Directorate office in Mumbai in connection with the Patra Chawl land scam case. "I am a fearless person. I am fearless because I've never done anything wrong in my life. If at all this is political, we will get to know that later. Right now, I feel I am going to a neutral agency and I trust them completely," says Raut.

# Shiv Sena Chief Whip Sunil Prabhu moves Supreme Court seeking suspension from House, of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and 15 other MLAs against whom disqualification petitions are filed, till a final decision is taken on their disqualification.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentions the matter seeking urgent hearing of plea of Uddhav Thackeray camp MLA Sunil Prabhu seeking suspension of dissident Shiv Sena MLAs from the House & restraining them from entering Assembly or taking part in proceedings till their disqualification decided.

The apex court to hear on July 11, along with other pleas, a fresh plea of Uddhav Thackeray camp MLA Sunil Prabhu seeking suspension of dissident Shiv Sena MLAs from Maharashtra Assembly and restraining them from entering the House or taking part in proceedings till their disqualification is decided.

# The Income Tax department has sent a notice to NCP chief Sharad Pawar in connection with poll affidavits filed in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2020.

Also read | Eknath Shinde sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister, Fadnavis will be his deputy

Eknath Shinde was sworn in as the 20th chief minister of Maharashtra on Thursday. Former CM Devendra Fadnavis also took the oath of office, as Shinde's deputy. Shinde and Fadnavis met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to stake claim to form a government in Maharashtra. Fadnavis later announced that Shinde would be the new CM of the state.

# Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and Eknath Shinde-faction MLAs accorded a warm welcome to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as he reached the hotel, late last night.

#WATCH | Goa CM Pramod Sawant and Eknath Shinde-faction MLAs accorded a warm welcome to Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde as he reached the hotel, late last night pic.twitter.com/EltXkvI5W4

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# Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut appeals to party workers not to gather at the Enforcement Directorate office as he is set to appear before the probe agency at 12 noon today.

# Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister takes a dig at Congress leader Kamal Nath.

"It's strange of Congress to send a person (Kamal Nath) to save the Maharashtra government who couldn't save his government...Poor Uddhav...Congress has only one 'Nath', rest of Congress is 'Anath' (orphan)," says Chouhan.

First Published:Jul 1, 2022 9:23 AM IST