CM Uddhav holds 1st Cabinet meeting

November 28, 2019 20:43

The Maha Vikas Aghadi's Cabinet meeting has just begun at the state guest house Sahyadri. MLA Aaditya Thackeray, his son, is accompanying him.

The MVA government has said it would waive farmers' loans and ensure 80 per cent quota in jobs to the local youth.

The CMP was announced by NCP leaders Jayant Patil and Nawab Malik and Sena leader Eknath Shinde, ahead of the swearing in of the Uddhav Thackeray-led government.

The CMP promises complete loan waiver to farmers as well as setting up of 'one rupee clinics' across the state which will provide basic health screening to people.

Sena's most discussed promise during the Assembly poll campaign -- a full meal at Rs 10 -- also figures in the CMP.

A law will be enacted to ensure 80 per cent job quota for youths domiciled in Maharashtra, it said. The program also talks about the filling of all vacant posts in the state government's various department immediately.

It also promises to offer tenements measuring 500 sqft carpet area free of cost to eligible slum dwellers under the slum rehabilitation program instead of current 300 sqft tenements.

The Shiv Sena may have shared power with ideologically-opposite Congress for the first time, but the saffron party is known to have cosied up with it before and posters with old pictures of bonhomie between their leaders Bal Thackeray and Indira Gandhi taken in the seventies were put up in different parts of the city.

Image: Uddhav Thackeray's tweet, short and sweet, after the swearing-in ceremony. It says in Marathi, 'Mee Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray...'

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