NEW DELHI: The breakaway faction of the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde withdrew support to the two-and-a-half-year-old Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra, causing its downfall on Wednesday. Uddhav Thackeray announced he was stepping down before he submitted his resignation to governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. It was the third government in the last three years after Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh (MP) to have fallen due to defections.
Though there are several similarities in the manner in which the governments fell in Karnataka, MP and Maharashtra, there are striking differences too.
