Fadnavis back as Maha CM, Ajit Pawar is deputy

November 23, 2019 08:27

In what can be termed as a surprising development, Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday took oath as Maharashtra chief minister for the second consecutive term while Nationalist Congress Party's Ajit Pawar took oath as deputy chief minister of the state.

The move came at a time when deliberations between the Congress, the NCP and the Shiv Sena seemingly reached the final stage on Friday.

Earlier, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar had claimed that there was a consensus on Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray as chief minister of the alliance government.

The BJP, which emerged as the single largest party, could not stake claim to form a government as its ally Shiv Sena remained firm on rotating the chief minister's post and equal sharing of Cabinet berths.

The Shiv Sena parted its ways with BJP to explore ways to form a government. It, however, failed to prove the support of the required number of MLAs in the time given by state Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.

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