Minutes after the Supreme Court refused to stay the floor test on June 30 as directed by Governor BS Koshyari, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday announced his resignation from the CM’s post. Further, he also declared that he will resign as the member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council as he had never said that ‘’Mi Punha Yein’’ as he had never thought of coming to the upper house. Thackeray put up a brave front in the wake of rebellion staged by Shiv Sena legislators and announced that he will start sitting again in Shiv Sena Bhavan and revive the party with youths and Sainiks.
Thackeray hailed the allies NCP and Congress for their strong support and cooperation in the last two and half years but expressed serious displeasure over betrayal by his own party leaders. ‘’I want to thank NCP President Sharad Pawar and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and also state leaders for extending their cooperation in the functioning of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government. It was ironic that besides me only three other ministers from Shiv Sena including Subhash Desai, Anil Parab and Aaditya Thackeray were present at today’s cabinet meeting. Rest you know where they have gone,’’ he said.
‘’While taking a decision on renaming Aurangabad, the NCP and Congress did not oppose it. But what I feel bad about is that only four Shiv Sena ministers were present. Others we all know where they are,’’ he noted.
“The Supreme Court has given the verdict on the floor test. I want to thank the Governor who upheld the democracy by asking us to hold a floor test in 24 hours after a delegation met them,” he said. However, he hoped the Governor should have cleared the file pertaining to the nomination of 12 members in the state council which has been pending for a long time.
‘’Bad luck has struck our government,” Thackeray said, announcing his resignation from the top post. He expressed his disappointment with the Shinde faction, saying that he gave the rebel MLAs all that they wanted.
Thackeray referred to his appeal to the rebel MLAs to return to Mumbai and hold talks to find a way. Thackeray said. ‘’Who are you angry with me? Congress or NCP? Rather than going to Surat and speaking up you should have come to me at Matoshree. I still respect your feelings,’’ he said.
