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Uddhav receives PM Modi at Pune airport, first meeting between two leaders after Sena chief became Maharashtra CM

The Prime Minister was received by Uddhav Thackeray, former Maharashtra CM and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, Home Minister Amit Shah and other leaders.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in Pune on Friday night for a three-day national conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police, was welcomed by the newly elected Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray at the Pune airport.

The Prime Minister was received by Uddhav Thackeray, former Maharashtra CM and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, Home Minister Amit Shah and other leaders.

PM Modi will attend the three-day conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER). 

This is the first time Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met PM Modi after becoming Maharashtra chief minister.

BJP and Shiv Sena broke their 30-year-old alliance after the two parties failed to reach on a power-sharing agreement when Sena demanded that it wanted the chief minister's post to be shared between the two parties. 

After no party managed to win as many seats to form the government on its own, Sena after failed talks with BJP, formed an alternative government with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress.

The formation of the new government in Maharashtra was delayed over a month after the four key parties BJP, Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress entered an impasse after assembly election results.

In a bid to form the government, Devendra Fadnavis in a surprise move on November 23 took oath as Maharashtra chief minister after NCP's Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister, however, the government did not last for long as after the Supreme Court ordered a floor test, both Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar resigned since they were not having enough numbers to prove majority.

This development paved the way for a Sena-NCP-Congress government and Uddhav Thackeray, who was elected as joint leader of the alliance, took oath as Maharashtra chief minister on November 29.

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