Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde won the crucial floor test on the last day of the two-day special session of the state assembly on Monday.
In the 288-member House, 164 legislators voted in favor of the confidence motion, while 99 voted against it.
Three MLAs abstained from voting, while 21 MLAs, including Congress’ Ashok Chavan and Vijay Wadettiwar, were absent during the trust vote.
Speaker Rahul Narvekar announced that the confidence vote was completed with a majority vote.
After the death of a Shiv Sena MLA recently, the current strength of the assembly has reduced to 287, thus the majority mark is 144.
Last month, Eknath Shinde launched a revolt against the army. Most MLAs sided with him, leading to the fall of the Maha Bikash Aghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray.
Shinde was sworn in as Chief Minister on June 30, a day after Thackeray resigned. Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP party took oath as Deputy CM.
