Uddhav Thackeray cannot be restored as Maha CM as he resigned before floor test: SC

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The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it cannot interfere with the formation of the Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra as former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray resigned from the post without facing a floor test..

SC verdict on Shiv Sena case: Governor wrong in calling floor test, cannot overturn sequence of events..

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that status quo ante cannot be ordered by restoring the MVA government in Maharashtra as former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray did not face a floor test before resigning...

The governor was, therefore, justified in inviting Shinde to form the government at the behest of the BJP which was the largest political party in the house," it said.. Bharat Gogawale, the Whip of Shiv Sena headed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that he would first read the entire SC judgement before commenting...

In August last year, the top court's three-judge bench had referred to a five-judge Constitution bench the issues involved in the petition filed by rival groups of Shiv Sena, the Eknath Shinde group and the Uddhav Thackeray group in relation to the political crisis in the State that led to the fall of the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government...

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