Now the “big” question Who will be Maharashtra CM?

Now the “big” question
Who will be Maharashtra CM?

Following massive 132-seat jackpot in Maharashtra, BJP looks beyond coalition dharma. With Devendra Fadnavis ay no.1 in CM race.
Amit Shah set to head a meeting with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP in the national capital to make final decision on who gets the top post.

The scale of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s success in Maharashtra has transformed the BJP central leadership’s outlook on the question of who will be the state CM, with the party looking inclined towards putting Devendra Fadnavis on the hot seat.

The BJP won 132 of the 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra—just 12 short of securing a majority. Mahayuti partners Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena won 57 seats and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party 41 seats. Under the leadership of Fadnavis, the BJP this election broke its record of winning 122 seats in the 2014 Maharashtra assembly election.

BJP is faced with a choice between sticking to coalition dharma by endorsing Eknath Shinde as CM notwithstanding a bigger mandate or fulfilling its ambition of installing Fadnavis as CM, the party is not rushing the decision. Unlike its coalition partners, the party has, so far, not named its legislative assembly leader or a central observer to elect the leader.

News Edit KV Raman