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Tover whether NCP leader (MVA) at the historic Shivaji At Thursday’s meeting it Ajit Pawar — who resigned as Park ground, which in many was decided that “one Minister the Deputy Chief Minister in ways remained his late father or two Ministers” from each of the BJP-led Government and Bal Thackeray’s “karma bhoo- the three constituents of the returned to the parent party on mi” from the day he addressed MVA will be sworn in along Tuesday — would find a place his first-ever Dussehra rally 53 with Uddhav. as Deputy Chief Minister or as years ago and till he was cre- As per the agreement a Cabinet-ranked Minister in mated there seven years ago. reached among the MVA part- the Uddhav Thackeray The first-ever Thackeray to ners earlier, the Sena will get 16 Government till late on assume a top elected position, ministerial berths, the NCP 14 Wednesday night, ahead of 59-year-old Uddhav will be and the Congress 12. Thursday’s swearing-in cere- second-ever Shiv Sena leader Though it had earlier been mony. — after Manohar Joshi — to be decided that there would be Though the leaders of the sworn in as the Chief Minister two Deputy CMs — one each newly-formed Maharashtra at “Shiv Thirth”, better known from the NCP and the Vikas Aghadi (MVA) met and as Shivaji Park. Congress — it was decided at discussed issues relating to Late Thackeray, it may be the meeting that there would be the Government formation on recalled, had hand-picked and * %+ , - . #" only one Deputy CM from the Wednesday evening, there was anointed Joshi as the first-ever &" &'* ( ") NCP. The post of Speaker will no word as to whether Ajit Sena Chief Minister, after the go the Congress, and the would get any portfolio. Sena-BJP alliance rode to rally more than four months Though his party’s official be embarking upon a new Deputy Speaker to the NCP. Ajit made his presence felt power for the first time in after he founded the Shiv Sena mouth-piece “Saamana” which political journey both for him- Talking to media persons in both the NCP and MVA -%%!' % March 1995. It was another on June 19, 1966, and went on began its publication on self and his party, as he teams after the MVA leaders’ meeting, circles on Wednesday as he ! /* ( matter that the late Sena chief to address Dussehra rallies January 23, 1988, late up with new “secular” partners NCP leader Praful Patel said, met party’s newly elected replaced Joshi with another there every year thereafter, Thackeray had all along effec- the NCP and the Congress who “At the meeting, We have dis- MLAs, spoke to them formal- that he would not be averse to NCP. I had not been removed leader Narayan Rane nearly barring two years. tively used Shivaji Park to send are ideologically polar opposite cussed preparations for tomor- ly and also interacted with the be part of the new from the party at any stage,” he four years later. Rane had taken In 2005, the Sena had can- across his directives to lakh of from the Sena and whom it had row’s swearing-in ceremony Congress and Shiv Sena lead- Government. “It is for party said. In the normal course, oath of office at another venue. celled the rally owing to heavy supporters. His son Uddhav is over the years criticised on var- and most of the issues relating ers during the day. Sources in president Sharad Pawar to take senior NCP Jayant Patil — who Bal Thackeray, whose mor- rain, while Thackeray could not carrying on with the legacy. ious issues. to the Cabinet formation and the MVA said there was no a final decision,” he said. was elected as the party’s tal remains were consigned to make it to the October 24, 2012 Having aligned with the He may have accomplished also sharing of the posts of the opposition to him being Ajit, however, denied that Legislature group leader in flames in full public view, was Dussehra rally owing to his BJP for 30-long years (except the promise made to his late various State-run boards and inducted either as a Cabinet he had ever rebelled against the place of Ajit after the latter emotionally attached to the indisposition (but his video- for a brief period in the run-up father that he would install a vacant posts in the Legislative Minister or even the Deputy NCP leadership or had been switched sides — is to become Shivaji Park, where he had recorded speech was played at 2014 Assembly polls) on the Sena man as the Chief Minister Council and Raj Sabha, etc.” Chief Minister. removed from the party. “I the Deputy Chief Minister. addressed his first Dussehra that rally). Hindutva plank, Uddhav will of Maharashtra, but Uddhav Continued on Page 4 On his part, Ajit indicated have always been with the Continued on Page 4 !"# $ %& ' $ $ ( /1&)1 7. ! " # he Opposition parties on $ % " & ' TWednesday grilled the Government in the Rajya P Sabha over the poor state of the economy, saying the country is () heading towards a deep crisis & % even as Finance Minister -#/;& + Nirmala Sitharman asserted ! ,- the current situation is only a day after the Sunni Central ) cyclical slowdown and will AWaqf Board decided not to ./0! bottom out by March. file a review petition against the 1 Replying to a discussion on Supreme Court verdict in the ) ' the economic situation in the Ayodhya case, the All India country in the Upper House, Muslim Personal Law Board !" # Sitharaman reeled out numbers # $ % &'% ( ") (AIMPLB) said on Wednesday $% & # comparing between five years it will file a review petition '(' ( 2 under the Congress-led UPA- Initiating a short-term dis- etisation and hasty implemen- has fallen, manufacturing sec- before December 9. a review petition in the Babri II regime from 2009 to 2014 cussion on the economic situ- tation of GST have led to the tor has contracted,” he said. “The board is firm on its Masjid case during the first " # and BJP’s first term from 2014 ation, Congress member present slowdown. Allaying concerns over rev- decision to file a review petition week of December. Sunni Waqf & to 2019 to say that inflation is Anand Sharma said the slow- “It cannot be said as a enue position, Sitharaman said in the Supreme Court and we Board’s decision not to pursue $ % 345. lower and growth higher under down could not be labelled as cyclical slowdown. We are star- direct tax and GST collections have time till December 9 for the case won’t legally affect us,” ) 34 the Modi Government. a cyclical phenomenon. “In ing at deep economic crisis have seen an increase in the doing so,” AIMPLB secretary Jilani was quoted as saying in Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh . “FDI inflows in 2009-14 the last few years, the economy which is India specific,” Sharma first seven months of the cur- Zafaryab Jilani told PTI. a tweet by the AIMPLB. Shia Central Waqf Board on were $189.5 billion and the has suffered. Industry has gone said. He added that all four rent fiscal when compared to Stressing that the decision “The date for filing the Wednesday said it would ask O ' same were $283.9 billion under down and people do not even engines of economic activity — the same period of the last year. of the Sunni Central Waqf review petition cannot be the Government to give it the the BJP rule in the following have money to buy day-to-day investments, industrial pro- India’s growth outlook has Board, one of the main litigants, announced as of now as it is yet five-acre plot that the Supreme #) " five years. Foreign exchange articles. Situation in the rural duction, credit off-take and weakened sharply this year, will have no effect on the AIM- to be decided on whose behalf Court ordered should be allot- ! *+,$!## reserves rose to $412.6 billion regions is even worse,” he said. exports — were shutting down. with a crunch that started with PLB decision, Jilani said the it will be filed,” Jilani said, while ted for building a mosque, if the 7 under the BJP from $304.2 bil- He said the gap between The numbers are frightening. the non-banking finance insti- board has already taken a final alleging that prospective Sunni Waqf Board rejects the ! ( " lion in UPA-II. Economic the rich and poor has widened GDP growth has fallen and is tutions spreading to retail busi- decision in this regard in its Muslim parties, who can file offer. The Shia board could use " & growth may have slowed but in the country in the past few lowest in seven years, invest- nesses, car-makers, home sales meeting here on November 17.