Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar and Balasaheb Thorat all have spoken out against the CAA. (PTI)

Days after saying that the Maharashtra government will wait for the Supreme Court ruling on the Citizenship Act, the state government led by Shiv Sena has said the new citizenship law will not be implemented in Maharashtra.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, while meeting a delegation of Muslim leaders in Mumbai said no member of the community should be afraid of the CAA in Maharashtra.

This is for the first time that the Maharashtra government has spelled out in clear terms that CAA and NRC will not be implemented across the state.

Citizenship amendment act is divisive in nature. We will not implement it in Maharashtra#CAA #NRC#SatyagrahaForUnity pic.twitter.com/3h40m3XG7I Balasaheb Thorat (@bb_thorat) December 23, 2019

Maharashtra minister Balasaheb Throat said on Monday, "Maharashtra has always believed in secular ideology. The state has never been divided on caste or religion lines. Even today Maharashtra stands with the righteous, even in this save the Constitution movement. CAA and NRC hurt the soul of this country. We will not let BJP get away with this. In Maharashtra, CAA and NRC will not be implemented."

Thorat was attending a protest event organised at Rajghat in Delhi by Congress leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others.

Uddhav Thackeray, on the other hand, held detailed meetings with various organisations like National Peace Forum, Muslim Seva Sangh and Muslim leaders like Amin Patel from Congress, Abdul Sattar from Shiv Sena, Abu Azmi from Samajwadi Party and Nawab Malik from NCP at the Sahyadri state guest house.

Thackeray assured the delegation that none of the members of Muslim community should misunderstand or be fearful of the CAA.

"The government will not allow anyone to seize the rights of citizens of any particular community or religion in the state," Thackeray told the delegation.

India Today TV also spoke to some senior Shiv Sena leaders who said that the stand of the party was also clear that CAA and NRC would not be implemented in Maharashtra.

Earlier NCP chief Sharad Pawar had said that CAA and NRC should not be implemented in Maharashtra. He had spoken out about how other states like Bihar had refused to implement the new law and Maharashtra should also follow suit.

Although in Lok Sabha Shiv Sena voted in support of CAA, it later withdrew its support from the bill during voting in Rajya Sabha.