NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis threw a cue on Wednesday that deliberations are still underway on who would take the state’s CM charge as suspense mounts over the top post.
On being asked about the new Maharashtra CM face, Fadnavis said that the answer would be given soon and a decision was being taken on the same.
Fadnavis, who is BJP’s Maharastra face, is expected to meet the top brass in an effort to resolve the impasse among Mahayuti over the CM post in New Delhi.
“The answer to this will be given soon. All senior members of the three parties of Mahayuti are taking a decision on this together..,” Fadnavis was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
The Maharashtra’s former CM also said that decisions for the posts of the other ministers would be taken first after which the rest of the decisions would be taken.
Senior Shiv Sena leader Deepak Kesarkar also emphasised that the alliance would take a decision soon.
“All this will be decided by our senior leaders from Delhi. It is not right for us to say anything about it. For us, everyone is a leader. Eknath Shidhe, Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar are also our leaders…Eknath Shinde has a relationship with Devendra Fadnavis. Both of them have had a good combination and this relationship will remain in future as well,” Kesarkar said.
As Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti is maintaining its silence over chief minister’s name for Maharashtra even days after the result announcement, the opposition questioned, “What’s stopping them”?
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi alleged the Mahayuti of depriving the people of Maharashtra of the promises made to them. Amid suspense over ‘who will be the chief minister of Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis or Eknath Shinde?’, Chaturvedi questioned why the announcement for the chief minister name has not been made yet and called Mahayuti “power-hungry”.
Eknath Shinde tendered his resignation as chief minister to governor CP Radhakrishnan as the term of the Maharashtra assembly ended on Tuesday.
The governor, however, asked Shinde to remain as caretaker CM until new government is sworn-in.
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance secured a substantial victory, winning 235 seats in the 288-member assembly. In the recent assembly elections, the BJP secured 132 seats, while their allies Shiv Sena and NCP won 57 and 41 seats respectively. The coalition also includes various smaller political groups.