Sena, NCP & Cong meet: Uddhav to be Chief Minister, will take oath on Thursday

The Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress Tuesday evening cleared the decks for Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray to become Maharashtra's new Chief Minister. The parties formalised their alliance as Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi before endorsing Thackeray to take over the top job in the state. NCP chief Sharad Pawar said three alliance memberd would meet Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari to sake claim to form government. The meeting began hours after resignation after BJP's Devenndra Fadnavis who quit as chief minister on the fourth day of his second term.