Maharashtra Political Crisis: Ajit Pawar join NDA appointed new Deputy CM

Maharashtra Political Crisis: Nationalist Congress Party’s Ajit Pawar joined the Maharashtra government today. Ajit Pawar took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister. He will share the post with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis. Maharashtra Political Crisis: Ajit Pawar appointed new Deputy CM.

The move comes days after Ajit Pawar expressed his desire to step down as Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly. A total of nine NCP leaders, including Chhagan Bhujbal, Dhananjay Munde, Dilip Walse Patil took oath as ministers along with Ajit Pawar. The oath taking ceremony took place in Raj Bhawan.

Earlier in the day, Ajit Pawar met some party leaders and MLAs at his official residence in Mumbai. NCP chief Sharad Pawar was not aware of the meeting. “I do not know exactly why this meeting has been called but, being the leader of the Opposition, he has the right to call a meeting of MLAs. He does that regularly. I don’t have much detail about this meeting,” Pawar had said.

Senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal and the party’s working president Supriya Sule were among the leaders present at the meeting held at Ajit Pawar’s official residence ‘Devgiri’, while state party president Jayant Patil was not present.

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