Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on December 4 raised political eyebrows after proclaiming that Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis would take oath as the next CM of Maharashtra after the 2024 State Assembly election.
Addressing a conclave of BJP party workers in the State’s Bhandara district, Mr. Bawankule said that the party cadre should ensure that 45 of the total 48 Lok Sabha seats from Maharashtra should be bagged by the ruling ‘Mahayuti’ coalition (headed by CM Eknath Shinde’s camp of the Shiv Sena, the BJP and Ajit Pawar’s rebel NCP faction) in the 2024 general election.
“The first resolution of this meeting should be that when Narendra Modi takes oath as the Prime Minister for the third time (after the 2024 Lok Sabha election), 45 of the MPs should be from the ‘Mahayuti’ and that the MP from Bhandara should be elected with the largest number of votes,” said Mr. Bawankule.
