State Vote
Mahayuti stakes claim to form Maharashtra govt with Fadnavis CM
This story was originally published at 18:34 IST on 4 December 2024
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NEW DELHI – Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led "Mahayuti", or grand alliance, Wednesday met Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan at the Raj Bhawan in Mumbai and staked their claim to form the next government in the state. Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar gave letters to the governor supporting the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis for the chief ministerial post.
The oath-taking ceremony will be held Thursday at Azad Maidan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and other senior leaders of the BJP will attend the event.
After meeting the governor, Fadnavis said Pawar would be deputy chief minister in the new government. Fadnavis also said he had requested Shinde to join the government and accept the deputy chief minister's post, but the suspense over the former chief minister's position in the new government continues.
Earlier in the day, the BJP legislature party met and elected Fadnavis as its leader. On Monday, the party had appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani as central observers for the legislature party meeting.
After the results of the Maharashtra elections were announced on Nov. 23, there was suspense over who the state's next chief minister would be, even though the BJP-led alliance bagged 230 out of 288 seats in the state assembly. The BJP alone won 132 seats.
BJP leaders pushed former chief minister Fadnavis’s name for the post, but Shiv Sena leaders pitched for a second term for Shinde, saying he had led the alliance to victory. Last week, Shinde said he had left the decision to the BJP leadership. Even so, the suspense continued for a few more days. End
Reported by Kuldeep Singh
Edited by Rajeev Pai
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