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Hours after the Supreme Court ordered a floor test in the Maharashtra assembly, Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar resigned as chief minister and deputy chief minister respectively.

4 min readNew DelhiNov 27, 2019 10:27 AM IST First published on: Nov 26, 2019 at 06:10 PM IST

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Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar took oath on Saturday and resigned on Tuesday after apex court ordered floor test.

Hours after the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a floor test in the Maharashtra assembly the next day, Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar resigned as chief minister and deputy chief minister respectively. Rebel NCP leader Pawar resigned just three days after he took oath citing personal reasons, while Fadnavis tendered his resignation a few hours later after addressing a press conference.

“We do not have majority after Ajit Pawar’s resignation,” Fadnavis said, while announcing his intent to resign. “We realised we don’t have the numbers and we don’t want to indulge in horse trading.”

The MLAs of the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena were to meet on Tuesday evening to decide their next course of action, but people on social media were upset, saying that it was the citizens who suffered due to the political chaos.