The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu would receive a record number of votes from Maharashtra in the July 18 presidential election, asserted the leadership of the new BJP-Shiv Sena government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister (DCM) Devendra Fadnavis.
Ms. Murmu, who arrived in Mumbai on Thursday afternoon was received by CM Shinde and DCM Fadnavis at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
She later met and interacted with BJP MPs and MLAs as well as legislators of Mr. Shinde’s rebel Shiv Sena faction at the Leela Hotel in Mumbai, where Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari was also present.
