Updated: November 23, 2020 4:30:32 pm
Maharashtra’s Senior Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Senior Deputy Minister Ajit Pawar at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai last year. (Express photo)
Exactly one year after Maharashtra politics was stunned with the joining of Devendra Fadnavis as prime minister and CPN leader Ajit Pawar as his deputy to form a short-lived 80-hour government in the state, the leader of the BJP said Monday: “the incident does not need to be remembered.”
Fadnavis, speaking to reporters in Aurangabad, added that if the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray falls, the oath ceremony of the dispensation that would replace it would not take place at dawn as was the case a year ago.
Last year, amid agitated parliamentarians between Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress to form a non-BJP government in the state after October elections threw a hung Assembly, Fadnavis and Pawar were sworn in at dawn in a ceremony at Raj Bhavan.
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“If the current government in the state collapses, the swearing-in ceremony will not take place at dawn. But such incidents need not be remembered, ”said the former CM.
Speaking on other issues, Fadnavis said that projects like the city’s water network and water pipeline aimed at developing Marathwada were in a coma under the MVA regime.
The MVA government is working for specific regions and electoral districts, and the proposals announced by the ministers are rejected by the prime minister or main deputy minister, Fadnavis alleged.
In response to a query on the MLC polls, Fadnavis said the BJP would do well despite Congress, the NCP and Shiv Sena joining forces.
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