Maharashtra CM Oath Ceremony: The suspense over who will become Maharashtra’s next chief minister will end in the next 48 hours as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to elect its legislature party leader.
The name of the Maharashtra CM will be announced on December 4, the eve of the Mahayuti government’s swearing-in ceremony. While the answer to the Maharashtra chief minister question is now deducible with Devendra Fadnavis’s being widely seen as the pick for the top post, members of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) continue to huddle in the run-up to the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in the state, slated to take place on December 5.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Monday flew to Delhi, while Eknath Shinde and Fadnavis remained in Mumbai, meeting workers and leaders of their parties amid pending confirmation over the pick for the next chief minister of Maharashtra. An official announcement of the CM name is expected on Wednesday, December 4.
Shrikant Shinde To Be Deputy CM?
Eknath Shinde’s son and Shiv Sena MP, Srikant Shinde, said the speculation about him getting the deputy CM’s post in the new state government was false and baseless.
“The news that I will be the deputy chief minister has been circulating with question marks for the past two days. There is no truth to this, and all such news are baseless,” the Kalyan MP said on X.
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