Mumbai, Aug 3 (PTI) Efforts are underway in Bharatiya Janata Party to shift Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to Delhi, senior Congress leader and the party’s state unit chief Harshwardhan Sapkal said on Monday.The BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh want Fadnavis in the Union cabinet to implement their ideological agenda, Sapkal claimed.He further claimed Fadnavis was being considered for the post of Union education minister.
The controversy over the three-language policy and Hindi in Maharashtra was part of a broader political agenda, Sapkal said.
The Maharashtra Congress chief’s comments come at a time when speculation about Fadnavis shifting to national politics is rife, especially after the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as Union education minister.
Incidentally, Fadnavis made a quick trip to the national capital on July 25, the day Pradhan resigned, and later returned to Nagpur, giving further boost to such talk.
On his part, Fadnavis has brushed aside such talk. Asked by reporters then about his Delhi visit, the chief minister had said, “Today, I am in Nagpur and will be going to Mumbai in the evening. I am in Mumbai and Maharashtra only.” PTI MR BNM
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