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A twist in the tale was in store on a day of fast-paced developments as the Maharashtra political turmoil came to an endwith Eknath Shinde, whose revolt within Shiv Sena led to the collapse of the MVA government, taking oath as the 20th Chief Minister of the state. In a surprise move, Fadnavis, who earlier announced that he would be out of the new government, changed his stand and was sworn in as the deputy CM following directives from the BJP central leadership. Everyone had expected Fadnavis to become the CM again with the support of the Shinde-led group. BJP has 106 MLAs in the Assembly while Shinde has claimed the support of 50 MLAs, inlcuding independents. The oath-taking ceremony came a day after Uddhav Thackeray resigned as CM, leading to the collapse of the 31-month-old Maha Vikas Aghadi government, which also comprised of NCP and Congress. Maharashtra Govt Formation: Here Are The Top Developments • Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administered the oath of office to CM Eknath Shindeand his deputy Fadnavis at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai shortly after 7.30 pm. • Shinde, a four-time MLA, began oath taking by paying tributes to late Shiv Sena leaders Bal Thackeray and Anand Dighe, his political mentor in Thane district." Development of the state is my priority. I will take all sections of society along with me," Shinde said after the ceremony. • Earlier, Devendra Fadnavis said he won't be part of the Eknath Shinde-led ministry and would support it from outside. ...

Premium Fadnavis stunned, but BJP clear about reasons, kept Eknath Shinde in loop Such public display of confusion is not known in a party with its strict emphasis on planning and discipline. But if Devendra Fadnavis appeared to be not in the know, sources said, the BJP kept Eknath Shinde in the loop throughout. The political developments in Maharashtra — from sequestering of the Eknath Shinde-led rebel Shiv Sena MLAs, to the s wearing-in of the new government on Thursday – were closely worked out by the BJP central leadership, with even key player Devendra Fadnavis not aware of the finishing touch, party sources said. This is why the unusual sequence of events in Mumbai Thursday: first, Fadnavis’s surprise announcement that Shinde would be CM, and that he would not be part of the government; then, BJP president J P Nadda’s public statement, quickly seconded by Amit Shah, that , no, Fadnavis would be Deputy CM. Such public display of confusion is not known in a party with its strict emphasis on planning and discipline. But if Fadnavis appeared to be not in the know, sources said, the As per sources, the party felt that having a strong BJP leader at the helm was the only way to ensure not just better policy-making, keeping a hold on the bureaucracy and pushing the agenda of the government, but also providing a stable government. “Out of power, Fadnavis would be an extra-constitutional power centre, which could lead to problems,” a leader said. Read | With Fadnavis seen as a...

Think of a state that witnessed 1,192 communal clashes from 1998 to 2008, the highest in the country, which claimed 172 lives. Think of India’s financial capital, which witnessed 83 communal riots during 1908-2009, claiming 1,900 lives and injuries to over 8,000 people. Just remember these figures from an official For now, think of the poster boy of Maharashtra’s ‘v ikash’ or development—Devendra Fadnavis. The state’s home minister blaming “Aurangzeb ki aulaad” (Aurangzeb’s descendant) for Kolhapur’s communal tension sounded so un-Fadnavis-like. From 2014 to 2019, as the chief minister of Maharashtra, he was never seen as a polarising figure. His focus was on infrastructure—from expediting and expanding the UPA-era metro lines’ project in Mumbai, coastal road, trans-harbour link, Mumbai-Nagpur expressway and so on and so forth. In January 2018, he declared that Maharashtra was planning to get into the trillion-dollar GSDP (gross state domestic product) league in the next 7-10 years. “Businesses can vouch for it that nobody is troubling them. And that is the strength of Maharashtra,” The Times of India Those were the days when Maharashtrians and many outside the state were lapping up everything that Fadnavis would say. Adityanath was yet to become the ‘ vikas purush’ that he became in his second tenure as the CM of Uttar Pradesh. And Himanta Biswa Sarma was yet to become chief minister of Assam. Fadnavis was in a league of his own then, with ...

New Delhi: Shiv Sena rebel Who Is Devendra Fadnavis? Devendra Fadnavis is an Indian politician belonging to the BJP and served as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 31 October 2014 to 12 November 2019. He was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra from the BJP. Know about him in detail here: Fadnavis, who was born on 22 July 1970 in Nagpur, hails from a middle-class Brahmin family and his full name is Devendra Gangadhar Fadnavis. At the age of 44, Fadnavis became the youngest Chief Minister of the state after Sharad Pawar. He took oath as the Chief Minister on 31 October 2014 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. He served as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 31 October 2014 to 12 November 2019. He has completed his schooling at Saraswati Vidyalaya, Nagpur. He took admission in Government Law College, Nagpur for a five-year integrated law degree. Graduated in the year 1992. His diverse educational background includes a Graduate Degree in Law, a Post Graduate Degree in Business Management and a Diploma in Project Management from D.S.E. Berlin. He married Amruta Ranade in the year 2006. Political Journey Of Devendra Fadnavis - Devendra Fadnavis started his political career with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He joined the Maharashtra unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party as the Ward President. - From 1986 to 1989, Fadnavis was an active member of ABVP and worked to inspire the youth toward the reconstruction of the society. - He became the youngest Municipa...

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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis denied reports about the alleged lathicharge on ‘warkari’ pilgrims by the police in Pune’s Alandi town. Warkaris are devotees of Lord Vitthal, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Fadnavis said a minor fight broke out between the devotees and the police.  He was quoted as saying by PTI: “There was no lathicharge on the warkari community”. The incident occurred when devotees were trying to enter the Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj Samadhi Mandir in Alandi town. "We learned from last year's stampede-like situation at the same place (Alandi) and tried giving a few number of the entry pass to various groups. It was decided to issue 75 passes to each group that participates in the pilgrimage," said Fadnavis. The Maharashtra deputy CM added some 400-500 youths insisted to participate in the pilgrimage and did not follow the rules about restricted allotment of passes. He added they broke barricades and some police personnel got injured while trying to stop these youths.  Meanwhile, Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioner Vinoy Kumar Choubey stated some local youth tried to enter the procession forcefully, leading to an altercation with the police. He added the police did not do lathi charge or use any force against them. Choubey added police made elaborate arrangements and also held meetings with temple trustees to prevent untoward incidents.  Some local youths tried to forcibly enter the Palkhi procession, leading to an altercat...

Maharashtra’s newly-minted chief minister has his first task cut out for him: how to be on an even keel with his once all-powerful deputy. Eknath Shinde, 58 and Devendra Fadnavis, six years his junior, were colleagues in the state cabinet for five years but this was when Fadnavis was at the helm of the state government. Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis address the media in Mumbai. (Satish Bate/HT PHOTO) While the Shinde faction owes power to the BJP no doubt, Thursday’s curious chain of events with Fadnavis, who was widely believed to be the next chief minister, first announcing that he would stay out of the Shinde-led government and then later being forced to become a part of it, leads to questions about the chain of command. By ensuring Fadnavis joins the government as Shinde’s deputy, there will be checks and balances not just for Shinde but for Fadnavis too. In 2014, when the Shiv Sena joined the government, Shinde was one of five Sena ministers in Fadnavis’s cabinet as minister for public works (public undertakings). Though Shinde was the minister for the department, Fadnavis was seen as the man driving that ministry—the biggest project that the Maharashtra State Roads Development Corporation Limited (MSRDC), which came under Shinde’s ambit, was executing was Fadnavis’s pet project—the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi expressway. A senior Shiv Sena leader disclosed that in those early days, Shinde and Fadnavis were not on the best of terms. Their political rivalry come to a...

Amid growing tensions within Maharashtra’s ruling parties, the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Deputy CM and State BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on June 13 cancelled his visit to Kolhapur district citing ‘medical reasons’. Friction arose between the ‘Mahayuti’ (translated ‘grand alliance’) partners after a newspaper advertisement placed by the Shinde-led Sena cited a survey which claimed Mr. Shinde was more preferred as the State’s CM than Mr. Fadnavis. Leaders from the Shinde camp scrambled to downplay any differences between their party and the BJP over the survey while the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) pooh-poohed the government’s survey, saying it was “laughable” that the Shinde camp had deployed an agency to conduct a survey obviously favourable to them. “There are no differences between the BJP and the Shiv Sena. Mr. Fadnavis has cancelled his visit owing to medical reasons. We were all present at the state cabinet meeting today where we discussed government schemes and how they can benefit more people,” said Deepak Kesarkar, who is spokesman for the Shinde camp and Guardian Minister of Kolhapur. At the same time, Mr. Kesarkar said that if there had been a mistake while given the advertisement, “it could be corrected.” The full-page advertisement with the flaming headline “Modi for India, Shinde for Maharashtra” featured a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi chatting amicably with Mr. Shinde. There were no p...

Premium Explained: Why was Devendra Fadnavis questioned in a phone-tapping case? The Mumbai crime branch has recorded the statement of Opposition leader and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in a case pertaining to alleged phone-tapping carried out by the State Intelligence Department. What is the case, and what is Fadnavis' defence? Mumbai crime branch on Sunday recorded the statement of Opposition leader and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in a case pertaining to alleged phone-tapping carried out by the State Intelligence Department (SID). What is the case registered at Mumbai crime branch’s BKC cyber cell? In March 2021, Fadnavis revealed that several IPS officers were lobbying for posting in exchange for money. Fadnavis said that he has 6.3 GB of data of call records obtained from phone tapping allegedly conducted by the then State Intelligence Department (SID) commissioner Rashmi Shukla in which names of several key police officers were discussed. Alleging that corruption was taking place on a large scale in police transfers in Maharashtra, Fadnavis read out a report publicly which Shukla had written to former DGP Subhodh Jaiswal. The then DGP forwarded the report to then Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Sitaram Kunte for action. Following which, the government instructed Kunte to inquire into the incident, who then in his report, alleged that Shukla deliberately misled the government to tap phones. Kunte’s report noted, “Seems prima facie … a copy from...