Devendra Fadnavis could be the next chief minister of Maharashtra. The BJP is getting all the majority it requires to make Fadnavis the chief minister.The CM will be from the largest party in the Assembly.
The Mahayuti is en route to a record win in the Maharashtra Assembly election, in which no alliance has ever crossed the magic 200-seat mark.
The ruling alliance – led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party factions led by Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar – was ahead in 215 of the state’s 288 seats by 10.30 am, and The Maha Vikas Aghadi – fronted the Congress and the Sena and NCP groups led by Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar – is ahead in just 61.
Non-aligned parties are leading in 12.
Within the Mahayuti, it is the BJP that is ahead; the saffron party is leading in 122 of the 149 seats it is contesting. The Shinde Sena is ahead in 57 of the 81 it is contesting and Ajit Pawar’s NCP 36 of 59.
