Prerogative of governor: Rajnath on Maha govt formation

November 23, 2019 12:24

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh weighs in on the government formation in Maharashtra saying it was the prerogative of the governor to invite a party to form a government. The comments come after BJP's Devendra Fadnavis and NCP leader Ajit Pawar took oath as the Maharashtra chief minister and deputy chief minister respectively on Saturday in an unexpected development a day after Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray emerged as the Sena-NCP-Congress' consensus candidate for the top post.

"At this point of time in this programme, I do not wish to make any political statement. It was the prerogative of the governor," Singh said at an event in Lucknow. "The governor invited the person (to form the government) after he was satisfied."

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