Shiv Sena terms Eknath Shinde's victory as 'stolen majority'

After Eknath Shinde won the floor test in assembly, Shiv Sena on Tuesday termed it a "stolen majority" and said that it was "not the belief of the people" of the state. Eknath Shinde-led government on Monday reached the majority mark of 164 in the Maharashtra Assembly. The trust vote for the Shinde-led government sworn in on June 30 after the collapse of the 31-month-old Maha Vikas Aghadi regime comes on the second day of the two-day Special Session of the Assembly convened by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on July 3-4.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, the government cleared its first litmus test when BJP's Advocate Rahul Narwekar a first-time legislator was elected as Speaker of the House with a comfortable margin. During the speech in the assembly, new CM Eknath Shinde said "Initially, I was supposed to be made the CM in the MVA govt... But later Ajit Dada (Ajit Pawar) or someone said that I should not be made the CM. I had no problem and I told Uddhav ji to go ahead, and that I was with him. I never eyed that post."