Nobody remained CM of Maharashtra for long time: Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today caused a flutter when he said that it is a fact in state politics that nobody remained CM for a long time.

"No person can remain as chief minister for a longer period...This is the history of politics in Maharashtra," Fadnavis said on the sidelines of an event in a lighter vein.

He was speaking at a function to inaugurate a private hospital in a Mumbai suburb.

"I performed the ground-breaking ceremony of this hospital and today I inaugurated it. This is a rare occasion. I don't known whether the construction of the hospital took place at a greater speed or I remained as a chief minister for long," Fadnavis said.

The CM's remarks came at a time when the BJP is walking the tightrope to bear with the Shiv Sena, the recalcitrant constituent of the BJP-led NDA government, which is playing the politics of oneupmanship in the upcoming bypolls.

The Sena has fielded late BJP MP Chintaman Wanga's son against the BJP nominee for the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll, scheduled later this month.

The Sena has also backed the candidature of Vishwajeet Kadam, the son of late Congress MLA Patangrao Kadam, in the upcoming Palus-Kadegaon assembly bypoll in Sangli district.

The BJP has announced withdrawal of its nominee from the race, which virtually gives a walkover to Vishwajeet.