
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday unanimously elected Devendra Fadnavis as the leader of its legislature party in Maharashtra, virtually paving the way for his appointment as the Chief Minister of the state for a third term.
Fadnavis name was proposed by senior party leaders Chandrakant Patil and Sudhir Mungatiwar at a meeting of the newly elected MLAs. The meeting was held in Mumbai in the presence of the BJP’s central observers Vijay Rupani and Nirmala Sitharaman.