New Delhi: As senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar took oath as his deputy, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday mentioned that such issues occur when a ‘deserving celebration employee’ will get a ‘secondary position’. Speaking to reporters, Shinde mentioned that now the double engine authorities has a ‘triple engine’.
“Politics of development is being backed by a man of development. When a deserving party worker gets a secondary role, such things happen,” Eknath Shinde mentioned about Ajit Pawar, the nephew of Sharad Pawar, who is understood to show rebellious streaks.
“Now the double engine government has a triple engine. The state will sprint (on the path of development). Now we have one CM and two deputy chief ministers. This will help faster development of the state,” Shinde added.
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Ajit Pawar takes oath as deputy CM in Eknath Shinde-led govt
Ajit Pawar on Sunday marked a vertical cut up in his uncle’s Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party and joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra authorities as deputy chief minister.
While Ajit Pawar was sworn in because the deputy CM by Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais on the ceremony held within the Raj Bhawan, eight different NCP leaders took oath as ministers. Those who had been sworn in as ministers are Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil, Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Munde, Aditi Tatkare, Dharmarao Atram, Anil Patil and Sanjay Bansode.
Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar, who was current within the Raj Bhawan, mentioned Ajit Pawar has resigned because the chief of opposition (LoP) within the Lower House and he has accepted it.
Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal and NCP working president Praful Patel had been additionally current on the Raj Bhawan.
Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule claimed 40 MLAs of NCP (out of the whole 53) have supported the state authorities.
The presence of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and celebration’s working president Supriya Sule on the Opposition assembly in Patna final month had reportedly irked Ajit Pawar and his supporters.
Elections to the 288-member state Assembly are due subsequent 12 months.
Maharashtra sees 4 oath-taking ceremonies in 4 years
The swearing-in of Ajit Pawar as deputy chief minister has meant Maharashtra has seen 4 oath-taking ceremonies in as a few years at its stately Raj Bhavan.
In November 2019, after the Assembly polls and the cut up between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena, Devendra Fadnavis and NCP’s Ajit Pawar had been sworn in as CM and Deputy CM, respectively, in an early morning ceremony in Raj Bhavan. The authorities lasted simply 80 hours as Pawar was unable to trigger a cut up in his celebration.
Within a month, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray was sworn in as CM after his celebration joined fingers with the NCP and Congress to type the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities. Incidentally, Ajit Pawar, who had returned to the NCP, was the deputy CM on this authorities.
The MVA authorities fell in June final 12 months after minister Eknath Shinde and 39 MLAs revolted in opposition to Thackeray and cut up the Shiv Sena.
Shinde was sworn in as CM on June 30 with the assist of the BJP. This time, Fadnavis as made deputy CM.
While Bhagat Singh Koshyari was the governor when the primary three oath-taking ceremonies occurred, Sunday’s political developments have come when Ramesh Bais is occupying the gubernatorial chair.
Assembly polls in Maharashtra are prone to be held round October subsequent 12 months, some months after the Lok Sabha elections.
