NEW DELHI: It’s official. Devendra Fadnavis is set to be the Maharashtra chief minister. After eleven days of deliberations and rounds of meetings, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday finally elected Devendra Fadnavis as their legislative party leader.
The decision came after the party’s core committee endorsed Fadnavis’ name.
Senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil proposed Fadnavis for the post which leaders like Pankaja Munde seconded.
Earlier, Maharashtra’s caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde said the BJP will decide on the state’s new CM who will have his full support, and asserted there were no differences among Mahayuti partners on government formation.
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The Mahayuti of BJP, Shiv Sena and the NCP won a landslide in Maharashtra completely decimating the opposition’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
With 236 seats, the ruling coalition has retained power in the state with a thumping two-thirds majority in the 288-member assembly.
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The BJP has emerged as the biggest winner of this election winning 132 seats on its own at a whopping strike rate of nearly 90%. This is 27 seats more than its tally five years back.
The Shiv Sena and NCP also outperformed their rival factions in the opposition bloc. Sena with 57 seats and the NCP with 41 seats decimated the opposition, inflicting on the Congress party its worst-ever defeat in the state.
