Maharashtra CM to Be From BJP, with Two Deputy CMs, Sources Reveal
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance triumphed over the Congress-Thackeray Sena-Sharad Pawar NCP coalition in last week's Maharashtra Assembly elections, securing a decisive victory.
In other words, the new Maharashtra Chief Minister is likely to belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His two deputies will reportedly come from Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction and Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Fadnavis Likely Maharashtra CM, Deputies from Shiv Sena, NCP
This is exactly similar to the power-sharing package with which the recent Maharashtra assembly election was preceded, though, as the BJP has clearly emerged victorious in that polls, it is the more assertive party. The BJP won 132 seats directly and, with its partners, had a total of 235 seats in the Assembly out of the 288 available.
The Mahayuti alliance led by BJP defeated the rival Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) consisting of Congress, Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, and Sharad Pawar headed NCP. The win did not clear the question of who would lead the state, but BJP's former Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, is in the forefront. Fadnavis had served as Chief Minister from 2014 to 2019 and for a short time in November 2019 after Ajit Pawar's first attempted rebellion.
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On Wednesday, Fadnavis, a key player of the alliance, downplayed that some sort of internal controversy with Chief Minister's position is taking place. "This decision will be finalized, all parties will be called together," he says; however, speculation never gets better as BJP and Sena's lawmakers continue to bargain that their respective leaders may go as Chief Minister of that new government. This is the power dynamics within the coalition and ongoing negotiations for leadership within the BJP-led government.
