In today's voting, the Eknath Shinde camp showed 164 votes.
The Congress has claimed that a chunk of its MLAs were made to wait outside the Maharashtra assembly today and they were not allowed to vote during the test of strength of the Eknath Shinde government, which sailed through. The opposition failed to put up a fight, its strength much lower than yesterday, when the election for the Speaker took place.
"As you can see in this picture all of us congress MLA's were in the vidhanbhavan together in the lobby but weren't allowed to enter and vote as the gates shut a couple of minutes before we could enter," tweeted Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique.
"We even requested Hon. speaker to allow us to vote as MVA voting had not begun," he added.
In the 288-member Assembly (effective strength 287), 164 MLAs voted for the motion of confidence moved by the Shinde-led government, way above the simple majority mark of 144. Only 99 MLAs voted against it -- down from the 107 of yesterday. A chunk of Opposition MLAs were missing.
Among those missing were at least 10 Congress MLAs, several MLAs of the Sena and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party.
Mr Shinde initially had the support of around 50 MLAs, 39 of them from the Sena and the rest Independents. The BJP has 106 MLAs.
During voting, one more Sena MLA switched to the Shinde camp, which has claimed to be the real Sena. The MLA, Santosh Bangar, was booed by the opposition when he showed support for the Eknath Shinde government, with many screaming "ED (Enforcement Directorate)"