‘Modi hai toh mumkin hai’, Fadnavis tells BJP workers as he becomes CM again – india news

BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, who became the Maharashtra CM for second time in a row after a surprise early Saturday morning oath ceremony, said “Modi hai toh mumkin hai”, as reported by new agency ANI, while greeting workers outside party office in Mumbai .

“We will provide a stable government. Modi hai toh mumkin hai,” said the second time chief minister.

Minutes after Devendra Fadnavis took oath as chief minister, PM Modi tweeted his congratulations to him and his deputy and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar.

“I am confident they will work diligently for the bright future of Maharashtra,” PM Modi tweeted.

The BJP staked claim to form the government on Saturday morning after which governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari asked the Centre to withdraw the Central rule in Maharashtra.

“There was a need to form a stable government in Maharashtra. I want to thank Ajit Pawar for giving us this support. Along with Pawar there are section of MLAs and other independent legislators who are supporting us. We will now prove our majority on the floor of the house,” said Fadnavis soon after taking oath.

“The mandate of the people was for BJP-Sena but since the latter insulted this mandate we took this decision,” he said.

Echoing Fadnavis’s views, his now deputy Ajit Pawar said: “I took this decision as the discussions of the alliance of the three parties Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena was not ending. There was a need to give a stable government in Maharashtra.”

In a stunning turn of events from last night when NCP chief Sharad Pawar announced that Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray will be the CM face of Sena-NCP-Congress combine in Maharashtra, the state woke up to the news of BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis taking oath alongside NCP’s Ajit Pawar.

The state of Maharashtra was placed under President’s rule on November 12 after no party could claim the numbers required to form a government.

The Sena, which was BJP’s pre-poll alliance partner, broke ranks over the issue of rotational chief ministership. Uddhav Thackeray then made the lone Sena minister, Arvind Sawant, in the union cabinet to resign. Thereafter, the Sena got in talks with the NCP and the Congress. Thackeray’s rare call to party chief Sonia Gandhi set the ball rolling in the Congress camp and subsequently the talks over the government formation in the financial capital of the country among the ideologically divergent parties gathered pace.