Will support PM Modi’s pick for Maharashtra CM post: Eknath Shinde

Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said that he will support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision on who Maharashtra’s next chief minister should be.

Shinde, who is currently the state’s caretaker chief minister, said that he, along with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Devendra Fadnavis and the Nationalist Congress Party’s Ajit Pawar, will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Thursday to discuss the formation of the state’s next government.

Shinde’s comments aimed to address the suspense around the chief minister’s role after the victory of the Mahayuti alliance – comprising the BJP, the Shiv Sena group led by Shinde and the Nationalist Congress Party group led by Ajit Pawar – in the Assembly elections in the state on Saturday.

On Wednesday, Shinde said that he had left the decision about the chief minister’s post to Modi.

“I told PM [prime minister] Modi, as the leader of NDA [National Democratic Alliance], you take the decision…Whatever decision you take will be final,” Shinde said. “I told PM Modi, Amit Shah that they should not see me as a hindrance. I will stand by any decision that is taken by them.”

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https://t.co/VmH4C3lRNt— Eknath Shinde - एकनाथ शिंदे (@mieknathshinde) November 27, 2024

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