Uddhav Thackeray

The Supreme Court asked the Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly to set a timeline for the hearing of the disqualification petitions against 56 MLAs including Chief Minister Eknath Shinde within a week.The CJI also noted that the Speaker cannot delay such proceedings indefinitely.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur slammed the Maharashtra politician for being "greedy" and swung the question around to the ongoing row over Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin's remark on 'Sanatan Dharm'.

INDIA meet: This meeting takes on significance as it marks the first assembly of the Opposition alliance in a state where none of the INDIA partners hold governmental reins.

The Saamana editorial compared the opposition parties' meeting in Patna, which it characterised to as the guardian of democracy, to the Wagner group's demonstration that a dictatorship can be overthrown.

Latching on to Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar's remark that his party was getting step-motherly treatment, an editorial in Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana' dubbed the Shinde group MLAs and MPs as hens and cocks imprisoned in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) coop and that it cannot be said when they could be slaughtered.

Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray have assured their support to Kejriwal in this matter. The Delhi CM said he will seek time on Friday for a meeting with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi to discuss the issue.

The Maharashtra government on Friday revoked the suspension of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh. The order revoking his suspension was issued by the state home department.

Citing the Supreme Court's judgment that he could have been reinstated as chief minister had he not resigned, Uddhav Thackeray said this implies that actions of the governor, like calling upon him for a floor test, were illegal.

Following is the timeline of the Shiv Sena-centric political crisis in Maharashtra.

Earlier, the Supreme Court held the Maharashtra governor was not justified in calling upon then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to prove majority in the Assembly on June 30 last year but refused to order status quo ante, saying he did not face the floor test and resigned.