"Shinde Government Will Not Last Long In Maharashtra": Sanjay Raut
NDTV
The Rajya Sabha MP claimed the current government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, in which Mr Fadnavis is deputy CM, will not last long.
MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday said the 2019 "experiment" by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis "failed and backfired" when he tried to form a BJP-led government with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar.
Talking to reporters here, Mr Raut said people did not take Fadnavis seriously after his early morning oath as Chief Minister with Ajit Pawar as his deputy on November 23, 2019, a coalition government that last for just over three days.
Mr Fadnavis, in an interview to a news channel, claimed NCP president Sharad Pawar had agreed to form a government with the BJP in 2019, but later backed off and played a "double game".
"If Sharad Pawar has done anything then it's okay. There is nothing new in it. You experimented and it failed and backfired. That's the bottom line. Forget about the double game. He (Sharad Pawar) subsequently formed a government (with united Shiv Sena and Congress) and Uddhav Thackeray became the CM and Pawar saheb backed it completely. This is a fact," Mr Raut said.
