Fadnavis back as Maharashtra CM as Ajit Pawar stuns NCP, Sena, Congress

NCP sacks Ajit Pawar as legislative party chief; Supreme Court to hear case today

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, stunned their political adversaries on Saturday morning by installing a Devendra Fadnavis-led government in Maharashtra, supported by the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Ajit Pawar.

While it is advantage BJP, given that the Assembly speaker will be from the party with the power to take decisions on the applicability of the anti-defection law, the political impasse is set to continue in the state, at least till the floor test in the Assembly, slated for November 30.

The Sena-NCP-Congress combine on Saturday night filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking