The suspense over who could be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra might be resolved this night because the three key leaders of the ruling alliance — Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar — meet Union Home minister and the BJP’s chief strategist Amit Shah in Delhi. Mr Fadnavis and Mr Shinde are in Delhi and the assembly has began.
The assembly is being held a day after Eknath Shinde mentioned he wouldn’t be an ‘impediment” and go by the choice of the BJP Central management concerning the highest put up, successfully clearing decks for Mr Fadnavis, seen because the front-runner within the race.
“I’ve instructed PM Modi that I’d not be an impediment. We would go along with no matter he decides,” Mr Shinde had instructed reporters. He additionally mentioned he was not “not grasping for any place” and ‘nobody is upset”.
Earlier as we speak, sources had mentioned hat the Chief Minister could be from the BJP, who would have two deputies.
The different hiccup within the naming of Mr Fadnavis for the highest put up is caste dynamics as an amazing variety of the 288 MLAs are from the Maratha neighborhood. Mr Fadnavis belongs to the Brahmin neighborhood, which had triggered a backlash of kinds in 2014 as effectively.
Sources mentioned Mr Shah had consulted senior occasion chief Vinod Tawde on the matter.
Earlier, in the course of the neighborhood’s agitation for reservation, Maratha chief Manoj Jarange-Patil had known as Mr Fadnavis a “Maratha-hater”.
The BJP, it seems, desires to iron out all doubts earlier than making a proper announcement.
The different query is the place Mr Shinde might be accommodated in case Mr Fadnavis is known as for the highest put up. The choices embrace Maharashtra as his deputy or the Centre. Sena sources, although earlier mentioned he could be a part of the cupboard in Maharashtra.
Today’s discussions can even embody the form of the cupboard, sources mentioned. While the utmost variety of ministers the state can have is 42, the division might be 22 ministries for the BJP, 12 for the Sena and 10 for Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, sources mentioned, indicating that the BJP can be bargaining for the important thing portfolios, together with dwelling.
The association mirrors the seat sharing deal and the sample of the victory, the place the BJP contested the utmost and gained 132 seats, establishing its declare for the highest put up.