Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde breaks down in House while recalling family

Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde won the floor test with a 164-99 margin in the assembly on the second day of the special session.

Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Monday broke down while speaking in the state assembly.

Remembering his family, the chief minister became emotional as he recalled the demise of his two children while he was a corporator. “While I was working as a Shiv Sena Corporator in Thane, I lost 2 of my children & thought everything is over...I was broken but Anand Dighe Sahab convinced me to continue in politics,” news agency ANI quoted Shinde. Shinde's children Dipesh and Shubhada had drowned in the family's ancestral village.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde speaks during a special session of the assembly, at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai, (PTI)

During his address, Shinde said he did not betray anyone but revolted against injustice. The chief minister, who won the trust vote in the assembly, said, "We are Shiv Sena workers and will remain so."

The Thackeray faction has moved Supreme Court against the newly-elected speaker Rahul Narwekar's decision to remove Ajay Chaudhary as the legislative party leader and replace him with Shinde. The speaker also removed Thackeray faction's Sunil Prabhu as the chief whip and replaced him with Bharat Gogawale.