Uddhav Thackeray, New Maharashtra Chief Minister, Holds First Cabinet Meet | Read

Uddhav Thackeray was sworn in as Maharashtra's new Chief Minister on Thursday evening at the Shivaji Park in Mumbai, where his father Bal Thackeray had addressed his first Dussehra rally to announce the birth of the Shiv Sena in 1966. Six more ministers were sworn in by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari as the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)-Congress alliance, or Maha Vikas Aghadi, formally took power. Soon after taking oath, Mr Thackeray held the new cabinet's first meeting. "I want to assure the people of the state that we will give a good government. I want to help the farmers in a manner which will make them happy," he said after the cabinet meet.