The BJP
cleared the decks for Devendra Fadnavis’s ascension to the post of chief
minister in Maharashtra after it elected him the leader of the BJP
Legislature Party on Tuesday Oct 28,2014
The factors weighing in his favour include a clean image, and a good relationship with both the RSS and BJP leadership.
The
four-time legislator from Nagpur South West was tipped for the post
right from October 19, when the BJP emerged as the single largest party
in Maharashtra.
Hailing from a family with
deep roots in the Sangh, Fadnavis began his political career with the
BJP’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad in 1989. At 22, he
became a corporator in the Nagpur civic body in 1992. Five years later,
he went on to become the youngest mayor of Nagpur
Devendra Fadnavis’s
name was proposed by senior party leader Eknath Khadse at the BJP’s
legislature party meeting in Mumbai. The proposal was endorsed by party
leaders Sudhir Mungantiwar, Vinod Tawde and Pankaja Munde Palwe.
Union
minister and the party’s central observer Rajnath Singh then announced
Fadnavis as the BJP leader in the Maharashtra Assembly
Maharashtra BJP in-charge J. P. Nadda and senior leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Om Mathur were present at the meeting.
Devendra Fadnavis
will become the first BJP chief minister in Maharashtra on October 31,2014
after he takes the oath of office and secrecy at a grand function in the
Wankhede stadium.
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