Devendra Fadnavis takes oath as Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ajit Pawar as Deputy

Mumbai: BJP leader and Chief Ministerial candidate Devendra Fadnavis has taken oath as Chief Minister of Maharashtra while Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar has taken oath as Deputy Chief Minister this morning. The oath was conducted by Governor Koshiari. Fadnavis in his reaction said he would go through floor test within the limit prescribed by Governor.

On October 30, Ajit Pawar was unanimously re-elected as the legislature party leader of the NCP at the meeting of the newly-elected MLAs. The BJP claims he had had the support letter of all his party MLAs. Unless he is expelled by his party, he can issue a whip to all 54 party MLAs to follow his cue to support the BJP government.

“We have given the governor support letter of NCP’s 54 MLAs and 11 independent legislators besides our own members. If at all NCP splits even then we are confident that more than 30 legislators will back him and us. Also, in the changing scenario we will get the support of majority of the independent MLAs,” said a senior BJP leader, who did not want to be named.

Congratulations to @Dev_Fadnavis Ji and @AjitPawarSpeaks Ji on taking oath as the CM and Deputy CM of Maharashtra respectively. I am confident they will work diligently for the bright future of Maharashtra.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 23, 2019

Ajit Pawar's decision to support the BJP to form the Maharashtra Government is his personal decision and not that of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
We place on record that we do not support or endorse this decision of his.

— Sharad Pawar (@PawarSpeaks) November 23, 2019

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