Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government wins floor test
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Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government wins floor test

Nobody voted against the confidence motion as all 105 BJP MLAs walked out of the 288-member House, boycotting the floor test.

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Newly sworn-in Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray, his son and Yuva Sena Chief Aaditya Thackeray acknowledge their supporters, at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. | PTI

File photo | Uddhav Thackeray, shortly after being sworn in as CM, at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. His son Aaditya is with him | PTI

Mumbai: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance won the floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly on Saturday.

Altogether 169 MLAs vote in favour of the motion of confidence, pro tem Speaker Dilip Walse Patil informed the House.

Four MLAs abstained, he said.

Nobody voted against the motion as all the 105 MLAs had walked out of the 288-member House, boycotting the floor test, before head count of MLAs began.

In the October 21 Assembly elections, the BJP emerged as the single largest party winning 105 seats. The Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress won 56, 54 and 44 seats respectively in the October 21 polls.

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