"Turned Crisis Into Opportunity": Uddhav Thackeray On 2 Years In Office

"I wholeheartedly thank the people of Maharashtra for supporting the Government like their own!" Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said.

The coalition government in Maharashtra, which many had predicted would not survive beyond a few months, has completed two years in the office. I wholeheartedly thank the people of Maharashtra for supporting the Government like their own! No matter how many more crises come our way, the state government will continue to work for the welfare of the common man.-CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray#2YearsofMahaVikas pic.twitter.com/IdS2gnUVLG pic.twitter.com/ODQ0CVeciY pic.twitter.com/DFarbYmX1b

The Shiv Sena-led alliance with ideologically opposite partners, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress, was formed after the Shiv Sena and the BJP parted ways in-spite of the pre-poll alliance winning a majority as the BJP refused to keep its promise of sharing the Chief Ministership in the state.

Uddhav Thackeray then took reins of the state in 2019 just months before the Covid pandemic struck. But in spite of hiccups like the removal of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh for his handling of the Antilia Bomb scare case and the subsequent stepping down of Home Minister Anil Deshmukh after Mr Singh's allegations against him, two cyclones and other problems, the government has managed to keep its flock together and tackle the challenges thrown at it by an unrelenting BJP which smarting from the loss of power after being politically outmaneuvered.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who was admitted to hospital after ignoring a spine issue for last year or so, tweeted this morning saying, "I wholeheartedly thank the people of Maharashtra for supporting the Government like their own! No matter how many more crises come our way, the state government will continue to work for the welfare of the common man."