Mumbai: Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the third time in a grand ceremony in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan. The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other dignitaries. Along with the BJP leader, Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde and NCP leader Ajit Pawar were also sworn in as deputy chief ministers of Maharashtra.
Asked when other ministers would take oath, BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar said, “”It is most likely that the council of ministers will be sworn in before the winter session of the assembly starts, so as to avoid administrative disruption.”
The new government formation comes after two weeks of intense negotiations between parties within the Mahayuti alliance, which emphatically won the Maharashtra assembly elections.
Together with allies Shiv Sena and NCP, the BJP-led Mahayuti coalition has a commanding majority of 230 seats. The BJP alone won 132.
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