Devendra Fadnavis’ name approved as Maharashtra CM: BJP leader

Though the oath-taking ceremony of the new government just four days away, there seems no clarity on the schedule of the much-awaited BJP legislature party meeting.A BJP leader claimed the party’s MLAs have not been informed yet regarding the timing of the legislature party meeting.A day earlier, BJP leaders confirmed that the meeting will be held on December 2.Maharashtra NCP chief Sunil Tatkare said,”We will sit together and decide whether only chief minister and deputy chief ministers will take oath or ministers will also be sworn in”.Differences among Mahayuti allies, meanwhile, came out in the open on Sunday.”Had Shiv Sena not split into two, and contested assembly elections with the BJP, our victory would have been bigger than what we achieved today. We had also won comfortably in the 2019 assembly elections,” Raosaheb Danve said.He claimed the Shiv Sena split because of Sanjay Raut, a close aide of Uddhav Thackeray.”You wait for six months, and Raut will cause a rift between Uddhav and his son Aaditya as well,” he added.Separately, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Gaikwad, who won the Buldana constituency by a wafer-thin margin against Shiv Sena (UBT) nominee Jayashree Shelke, levelled serious allegations.”Local MP and Union minister Prataprao Jadhav of Shiv Sena called Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and confidante of Uddhav Thackeray to field Jayashree Shelke. BJP’s Sanjay Kute passed on the same message to Sena (UBT) leader Anil Parab to field Shelke against me,” he claimed.The Mahayuti won 230 of the 288 assembly seats.The BJP led with 132 seats, while the Shiv Sena got 57 and NCP 41.”We contested only 85 seats. Without Ajitdada, we could have won 90-100 seats. Shinde never asked why Ajit Pawar-led NCP was inducted in his government,” Gulabrao Patil, a minister in the outgoing government, told a regional news channel.NCP spokesperson Amol Mitkari hit back, asking Patil to not shoot off his “loose tongue”.



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