MUMBAI, Nov 24:
Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Sunday said leaders of the ruling Mahayuti alliance and the BJP leadership will decide who will be the next Chief Minister of the State.
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Addressing a press conference here, Bawankule said all sections of the society supported the BJP in the Maharashtra Assembly polls and rejected the Congress.
He pointed out that the Congress’ State unit chief Nana Patole managed to win with a wafer thin margin of around 200 votes in Sakoli seat.
The BJP-led Mahayuti, which also comprises the Shiv Sena of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and NCP of deputy CM Ajit Pawar, on Saturday retained power in the state by bagging 230 of the 288 Assembly seats.
The Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi’s dream of wresting power fizzled, with the opposition combine managing to garner just 46 seats.
The BJP bagged 132 seats, the Shiv Sena won 57, while the NCP got 41 seats.
In the MVA, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidates won 10 seats, Congress won 16, while Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) won 20 seats.
Answering a query on the state’s next Chief Minister, Bawankule said the decision would be taken by the Mahayuti leaders and the BJP’s pPrliamentary board.
The selection process would be in-line with the alliance’s plans for governance, he added.
JMM leader Hemant Soren on Sunday met Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar and staked claim to form the Government, soon after leaders of the INDIA bloc in the State unanimously elected him as the legislature party leader.
He resigned as the Chief Minister, before staking claim to form the Government. He will officiate as the acting Chief Minister till oath is administered to him on November 28.
“I met the Governor. We staked claim to form the Government, and handed over support letter of alliance partners to him. He invited us to form the government. The swearing in ceremony will be held on November 28,” Soren told reporters after meeting Gangwar.
Soren, who drove to the Raj Bhavan in his car, said the Governor asked him to officiate as the acting Chief Minister in the interim.
Soren will be sworn in as the 14th Chief Minister of Jharkhand, which was carved out of Bihar on November 15, 2000. He will be sworn in as the chief minister for the fourth term.
Earlier, leaders and MLAs of the alliance, during a meeting at Hemant Soren’s residence here, unanimously elected him as the coalition’s leader.
Congress’ Jharkhand in-charge and party general secretary Ghulam Ahmad Mir and senior party leader Rajesh Thakur also attended the meeting, besides legislators of the coalition parties.
In a stunning comeback, Hemant Soren’s JMM-led alliance on Saturday stormed to power in Jharkhand for a second consecutive term, winning 56 seats in the 81-member Assembly, despite an all-out blitz by the BJP-led NDA which managed only 24 seats.
The majority mark in the State Assembly is 41 seats.(PTI)
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