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TopicDevendra Fadnavis

Topic: Devendra Fadnavis

Devendra Fadnavis set to take oath as Maharashtra’s 21st CM, elected BJP’s legislative party leader

A meeting of state BJP's core committee was conducted today, followed by a legislative party meeting. Fadnavis is a 2-time CM and outgoing Deputy CM. He will be sworn-in Thursday.

BJP to elect legislature party leader in Maharashtra, set in motion process to form govt

Former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis is being seen as frontrunner for top post in the new BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP Mahayuti govt.

Eknath Shinde taken to Thane hospital amid suspense over Maharashtra CM candidate

The Shiv Sena leader had left for his native village in Satara district last Friday to recuperate from illness. He was down with a throat infection and fever.

Devendra Fadnavis is no Shivraj Chouhan. Yet his worry is growing as Modi-Shah dither

The impending succession battle in BJP makes the choice of the next Maharashtra CM crucial—more in terms of power dynamics in the party than those in the Mahayuti.

Shankarrao Chavan to Fadnavis, Maharashtra CMs who had to give up post & settle for a downgrade

There have been many tall leaders who have first served as CM and then taken up relatively junior positions in the government to accommodate political compulsions from time to time.

After maha Maharashtra win, BJP looks beyond coalition dharma. Fadnavis no. 1 in CM race

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Mahayuti govt will take oath on 5 December, says Maharashtra BJP chief amid suspense over CM pick

BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule said swearing-in ceremony to be held at Azad Maidan in Mumbai, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Eknath Shinde is stronger than ever. He still won’t get the CM chair

Shinde has won the battle for the real Shiv Sena in public court and bettered the undivided Shiv Sena’s 2019 performance. But he seems to have lost the race for the CM’s chair.

Eight dead, 30 injured after bus overturns in Maharashtra’s Gondia

Mumbai: At least eight people died after a Maharashtra State Transport bus overturned near Bindravana Tola village on the Gondia-Arjuni road in the Gondia...

‘Had positive discussions with Shah, Nadda on Maharashtra govt formation,’ says Eknath Shinde

Shinde, along with Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, met Shah and Nadda late Thursday to thrash out a power-sharing pact for the next government in Maharashtra.

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Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

Be ‘atmanirbhar’ and go ‘swadeshi’: PM Modi’s clarion call to nation on 79th Independence Day

New Delhi: 'Atmanirbharta' and a call for 'swadeshi' were the mainstay of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s longest Independence Day address Friday, at a time...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.