Eknath Shinde Takes Oath As Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis His Deputy

“I’ll keep out of the federal government and guarantee it runs easily,” Mr Fadnavis stated at a information briefing round 4:30 pm, asserting that solely Mr Shinde will be sworn in later in the evening.

Nevertheless, barely three hours later, he was seen taking oath as Mr Shinde’s deputy after BJP chief JP Nadda stated, “He must be Deputy Chief Minister… I’ll personally request him.”

Eknath Shinde thanked PM Modi, Mr Fadnavis and different BJP leaders. “It is their magnanimity. They’d a much bigger mandate, but they made me the Chief Minister. Who does that?” he stated.

Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde met with Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and staked declare to energy earlier within the afternoon.

Uddhav Thackeray stop as Maharashtra Chief Minister yesterday, shortly after the Supreme Courtroom dominated that he should show his majority.

The Shiv Sena chief was left with solely 13 MLAs after the revolt that performed out in three BJP-ruled states. Eknath Shinde and a gaggle of rebels first moved to Gujarat’s Surat in luxurious buses. They have been flown to Assam’s Guwahati in chartered flights. They landed in Goa final night to arrange for a potential check of energy.

Deepak Kesarkar, the spokesperson for the Sena rebels, confused that it was ideology, and never greed for higher posts, that drove them to modify sides and go along with the BJP.

He additionally stated the rebels didn’t betray Uddhav Thackeray and nonetheless have love and respect for him. “No person in Shiv Sena is towards the Thackeray household,” he stated.

He asserted that the insurgent faction is the Shiv Sena now, since Uddhav Thackeray is in a minority within the get together. “It isn’t a query of who’s the actual Shiv Sena. Now we have the authorized majority and thus ours is the legislature get together,” he stated.

Regardless of proof of its safety and facilitation of the rebels, the BJP denied any position within the Shiv Sena coup. Devendra Fadnavis held two conferences with the management through the disaster. A 3rd assembly noticed Eknath Shinde being flown from Guwahati to Vadodara for discussions with Mr Fadnavis and House Minister Amit Shah, the BJP’s chief strategist.