The President’s Rule was imposed in Maharashtra in 2019 with the consent of NCP president Sharad Pawar, said Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on October 4.
He was responding to a question at the India Today Conclave here about the timeline of his attempt to form a short-lived government with the NCP.
In one of the biggest political surprises in Maharashtra after the 2019 polls, the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari swore in Mr. Fadnavis as the CM and Ajit Pawar as the Deputy CM on November 23, 2019. However, the government fell after about 72 hours.