Devendra Fadnavis

Speaking to reporters in Pune, Fadnavis also said those instigating riots will be exposed and the government will not let them succeed.

"The gift of life to the 16 MLAs is temporary because the Supreme Court has given a reasonable time' and it has limitations. The Speaker must take his decision at the earliest," Thackeray said.

Devendra Fadnavis told reporters, "I express my complete satisfaction over the Supreme Court's decision. Those who were speculating that this government will collapse today have been silenced (by the verdict)."

Single window will be created in Mumbai for self-redevelopment, and applications will be processed within three months. Meanwhile, NAREDCO Maharashtra has welcomed the move by the govt.

Speaking to reporters at Amravati in the Vidarbha region, he said the state government has anyway started preparations to tackle situation arising of a possible shortfall in monsoon rains.

Referring to the mob violence in Aurangabad on Wednesday night, he also said attempts are being made to disturb the peace

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra collapsed in June 2022 with the rebellion of Sena leader Eknath Shinde, who then formed the new government with BJP's Fadnavis as deputy chief minister.

The Mumbai Police arrested designer Aniksha Jaisinghani after the wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Amruta Fadnavis, filed an FIR against her alleging that she had threatened her and attempted to bribe her.

The state's economic growth rate of 6.8 percent this fiscal was good in light of the previous two-three years, said Fadnavis, who holds the finance portfolio, while replying to the debate on budget in the Legislative Assembly.

This elicited an apology from Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

The Budget’s focus is on housing and infrastructure. Under a new housing scheme named 'Modi Awas Gharkul Yojana', the State government will construct 10 lakh dwelling units for OBCs in the next three years at an outlay of Rs 12,000 crore.

The scrip settled at Rs 634 at the BSE, after nearing close to the Rs 640-mark. This came shortly after the Maharashtra government announced that the total EV fleet under the state transportation network would be increased by 5,000.

Apart from announcing a spree of measures for the state's cultivators, the government also raised the cap under a state-run health insurance scheme, and announced interest-free loans for persons from the Dhangar community.

Devendra Fadnavis started reading out the budgetary allocations in the Lower House of the state legislature at 2 pm. He read out the budgetary provisions from an iPad instead of a conventional paper document.

Maharashtra is expected to clock a GDP growth rate of 6.8 percent in the current fiscal, its Economic Survey, which was tabled on Wednesday, stated.

The projected growth showed a decline compared to the 9.1 percent growth in 2021-22.Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who also holds the finance portfolio tabled the survey report for 2022-23 in the Assembly on Wednesday, a day ahead of the state Budget.

Devendra Fadnavis said the untimely showers affected crops like mango, wheat and 'harbhara' (Bengal gram).

Devendra Fadnavis, who has served as the Chief Minister for a full term and came back as the Deputy Chief Minister last year, said the state is redoubling its focus on the infrastructure front.

“It was quite unaffordable to stay in Mumbai for businesses and that's why they went to Bengaluru and Hyderabad,” said Fadnavis

The developments that led to Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar taking oath as chief minister and deputy CM on November 23, 2019, are once again in focus after Fadnavis claimed that NCP supremo Sharad Pawar was in the loop all through.