A senior leader from the BJP announced that Devendra Fadnavis is set to become the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The announcement comes just before a meeting where the BJP will choose its new leader on December 2 or 3.
Eknath Shinde, the current Chief Minister, has shown his full support for the BJP’s decision. The choice of the new Chief Minister will be made by top leaders of the BJP, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Party President JP Nadda.
Shinde also talked about his son, Shrikant Shinde, possibly becoming the Deputy Chief Minister and mentioned that they want to have the Home Ministry role as well. Shinde’s party, Shiv Sena, along with their partners will decide together how to form the new government.
In the recent assembly elections, the BJP-led alliance, which includes Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), won a total of 230 of the 288 seats. The BJP won 132 seats, Shiv Sena got 57, and NCP secured 41.
A special ceremony for the new government will happen on December 5 at Azad Maidan with Prime Minister Modi attending.
Even though there is a push for unity in their alliance, some voices have expressed different views. For example, Shiv Sena MLA Gulabrao Patil said his party could have won 90-100 seats if the NCP hadn’t joined forces with them. Former minister Raosaheb Danve also mentioned that if the Shiv Sena and BJP had worked together, they might have won even more seats.
Both Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis are the main candidates in discussions about who will be the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra
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