Mumbai: The newly appointed Leader, Devendra Fadnavis, will formally take oath as Maharashtra Chief Minister on December 5. He was repository elected for the top post following his unanimous selection as the leader of the state BJP legislature party during a meeting held in Mumbai on Wednesday. The prime minister, Narendra Modi, is due to preside over the official swearing-in ceremony, which will be held on Thursday at the Azad Maidan, Mumbai.
The name of Devendra Fadnavis was clinched for the post of chief minister after the BJP’s core committee meeting. Later on, BJP leaders, including Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who was a member of the committee, and former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani, who was part of a committee that selected him for the role. Sitharaman and Rupani have been made the central observers for the Maharashtra BJP legislature party meeting.
In preparation for forming the new government, BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar announced that the Mahayuti (grand alliance) partners, including the Shiv Sena faction led by caretaker Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Ajit Pawar, will meet Governor CP Radhakrishnan appealing the people to open the doors for their claim from 3:30 pm on Wednesday to establish the government.
The BJP has given a spectacular performance in the Maharashtra Assembly election held on November 20 contesting 288 seats, winning 132 seats, which is the party’s top performance in the state. The BJP’s ruling alliance called Mahayuti, with results showing Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP at its helm, now holds 230 seats. This routing opens up the possibility of Fadnavis staging a comeback to power as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra by the end of this year, if not earlier, after his previous term came to an end in 2019.
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