The oath-taking ceremony of the new Mahayuti government will take place on December 5 evening at the Azad Maidan in south Mumbai and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend it, state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Saturday.While there was no announcement yet on who would be the chief minister, BJP sources said Devendra Fadnavis, who has been chief minister twice and was deputy CM in the last Eknath Shinde-led government, was the frontrunner for the post.Shinde last week said the Shiv Sena would support the decisions of PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to name the next Maharashtra CM.Talking to reporters on Sunday, Shinde said, “I always come to my village. Why should there be any confusion when I have already made my stand clear last week. I have already said the decision on CM’s post taken by the BJP leadership will be acceptable to me and Shiv Sena and will have my full backing.” To a query on his health, the Shiv Sena leader said he was fine now and had come to his native village to rest.”We will provide a government that people want. Our responsibility has now grown because of the massive mandate given by people as reciprocation of our work in the last two-and-a-half years,” he said .
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