D Fadnavis And E Shinde To Meet Amit Shah As Maharashtra Suspense Continues

New Delhi/Mumbai:

The three prime leaders of the Mahayuti alliance will meet House Minister and BJP chief Amit Shah tomorrow in Delhi to resolve on who would be the subsequent chief minister of Maharashtra.

BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, NCP’s Ajit Pawar and Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde are within the race.

Earlier than the Maharashtra meeting election, the BJP and the Shiv Sena in a sequence of conferences agreed that Mr Shinde would proceed to be the chief minister regardless of the variety of seats gained by every member of the Mahayuti alliance in the event that they win the election, individuals with direct data of the matter stated right this moment.

The BJP contested the utmost variety of seats within the election which the Mahayuti alliance swept in a historic feat, taking 235 of the 288 meeting seats, with the BJP alone successful 132 seats.

Supporters of the three leaders have claimed their very own leaders as the proper candidate to take the highest submit in Maharashtra.

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale of the Republican Occasion of India (Athawale), an ally of the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA), has backed Mr Fadnavis to move the state alliance as the subsequent Chief Minister. Mr Athawale has cited the BJP successful the best variety of seats to justify his stand.

“When Eknath Shinde got here to know that the BJP excessive command finalised Devendra Fadnavis as chief minister, he (Mr Shinde) was a bit sad, which I can perceive. However BJP bought 132 seats and so I believe they must make means… Devendra Fadnavis must be made chief minister. Shinde may be made Union Minister,” Mr Athawale stated on Tuesday.

Mr Shinde was instrumental in bringing a piece of Shiv Sena MLAs to ally with the BJP and take down the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities, which led to a scenario that compelled former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to resign. Mr Shinde additionally managed to wrest management of the unique Shiv Sena occasion image and title.

Ajit Pawar additionally used the identical technique in breaking away from his uncle Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) with an enormous chunk of MLAs to affix the newly Shiv Sena and BJP alliance.