At the same time as BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis is more likely to change into the Maharashtra chief minister, with Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar as his deputies, Shinde-led Shiv Sena Monday demanded that the Bihar sample must be applied within the state.
Sources within the BJP mentioned as its prime management cleared Fadnavis’s title for the Maharashtra CM publish, alliance companions Shiv Sena led by Shinde and the Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) of Ajit Pawar gave their approval. Nonetheless, a prime supply within the Shinde Sena mentioned, “There was no session with us on making Fadnavis the CM and our get together has not agreed on any title for CM but.”
In Bihar, the Janata Dal(United) chief Nitish Kumar was given the chief ministerial place regardless of the BJP getting extra seats than his get together within the Meeting elections.
“We really feel that the Bihar sample must be applied within the state for the Maharashtra chief ministerial place and Eknath Shinde ought to change into the CM once more. We really feel {that a} comparable factor ought to occur right here and Shinde must be made the chief minister,” Shinde Sena MP Naresh Mhaske mentioned, including that he feels the BJP wouldn’t do injustice to its alliance companions.
“The election was contested below the management of Shinde ji and due to Shinde ji’s face worth and reference to the folks, we’ve acquired this mandate. So, we really feel that Shinde ji must be made the chief minister,” mentioned one other Sena MLA Sanjay Shirsat.
In the meantime, Sena employees throughout Maharashtra are pushing for Shinde to change into the CM once more with some performing pooja and praying at temples. A number of leaders from Shinde Sena additionally met Devendra Fadnavis and different BJP leaders to debate their demand.
Based on sources within the Mahayuti, Eknath Shinde, Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar will go to Delhi on Monday night time to satisfy the highest management of the BJP, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union House Minister Amit Shah, and BJP president J P Nadda. “The choice will likely be taken solely after the assembly in Delhi. However the Shiv Sena is just not going to again out and we’ll maintain urgent the demand,” mentioned a supply.
In the meantime, the Mahayuti appears to have already finalised the cupboard berth-sharing formulation, with one berth to be given for 5 to 6 MLAs. Based on this formulation, Shinde’s Sena is more likely to get 12 cupboard berths, Ajit Pawar-led NCP to get 10 berths, and the remaining would go to BJP.
