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Mr Shinde said he would announce his decision on taking oath as deputy chief minister later. Mumbai: A press conference in which Devendra Fadnavis announced that he would take oath as the Maharashtra chief minister at 5.30 pm on Thursday, capping days of speculation, also served as the stage for some banter between allies, with…
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Mumbai: Devendra Fadnavis, the Chief Minister elect of Maharashtra, has met Governor CP Radhakrishnan and staked claim to form government, two weeks after the assembly election results were declared. He was accompanied by allies Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar. The meeting comes shortly after the BJP ended the long-drawn suspense over the Chief Minister post,…
Devendra Fadnavis with his mother Sarita and wife Amruta Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, one of the architects of the Mahayuti’s stunning victory in Maharashtra polls, is set to take oath as Chief Minister for the third time tomorrow after the BJP leadership finalised him as its choice for the top post today. Preparations…
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Ajit Pawar’s NCP, meanwhile, has demanded a share equal to that of the Shinde faction. Mumbai: Two days ahead of the oath ceremony of the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the ruling alliance is yet to announce the name of the incumbent. Sources, though, say a formula has been arrived at for the division of…
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Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis in consultation (File). Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis met outgoing Shiv Sena boss Eknath Shinde in Mumbai Tuesday evening, amid continuing suspense, and an absorbing tug-of-war, over the identity of the next Maharashtra Chief Minister. The meeting is being seen as an outreach by the BJP – to placate…
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Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party has named Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and ex-Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani as the designated ‘observers’ for a meeting of its newly elected Maharashtra MLAs later today, at which the issue of the next Chief Minister may be settled. No formal announcement has been made so far, but Devendra Fadnavis,…
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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: Nagpur South West is the constituency of Devendra Fadnavis. The demand for naming Devendra Fadnavis as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra is growing. This time, posters have come up in Nagpur reinforcing the demand and the people who put it up includes an MLA from the Eknath Shinde faction of the…
The Maharashtra Chief Minister will be from BJP, ally Ajit Pawar said today, adding that the two Deputy Chief Ministers will be from the alliance partners. Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the BJP are the three partners in the Mahayuti alliance. The BJP emerged the single largest party in…
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Mumbai: The suspense over who would be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra could be resolved this evening as the three key leaders of the ruling alliance — Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar — meet Union Home minister and the BJP’s chief strategist Amit Shah in Delhi. Mr Fadnavis and Mr Shinde are on…
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E Shinde has said he will accept the PM’s choice on Maharashtra CM. D Fadnavis is frontrunner Mumbai: The BJP will likely give 12 Maharashtra cabinet berths, including three big-ticket portfolios, to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena to make up for the Chief Minister post, according to sources. The Ajit Pawar-led NCP, the third party…
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