Fadnavis says 2024 election will be contested under CM Shinde's leadership

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said the 2024 Assembly elections will be contested under the leadership of Chief Minister Eknath ShindeSpeaking at the India Today conclave here he also said that the toppling of the Uddhav Thackerayled Maha Vikas Aghadi government was a revenge for a betrayalThe Bharatiya Janata Party will contest the coming civic polls as well as the next Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in alliance with the Shindeled Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena he saidIn 2024 we will fight the election under the leadership of Eknath Shinde as chief minister and myself as deputy CM and we will return with a huge majority Fadnavis saidHe also said that the Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackeray betrayed him and the BJP in 2019 when they ended the saffron alliance and joined hands with the Nationalist Congress Party and Congress to form a governmentIf Eknath Shinde wanted to leave Shiv Sena because of the way he was treated by Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray we were not going to ask him to go back We were going to welcome him and support him We have taken revenge for the betrayal said Fadnavis who was the chief minister of the BJPSena government from 2014 to 2019He also reiterated that the BJP never promised the chief ministers post for half the term to the Shiv Sena as the latter claimedAlso read Congress contributed lot in halting Indias progress J P NaddaDuring the 2019 campaign our leaders said elections were being fought under Fadnaviss leadership which was never contested by Thackeray But after the results he realised that if three parties came together he can become CM Fadnavis claimedInstead of sharing the CMs post the BJP had offered the Palghar Lok Sabha seat and more ministries in the state to the Sena and finalized the alliance he claimedEknath Shinde becoming chief minister instead of him after the fall of the Thackeray government was not a shocker Fadnavis saidShinde was made chief minister after consultation with me It was my proposal so it was not a shocker for me he saidWhat was shocking was that I should be the deputy chief minister he addedHe did not want a post in the new government but the central leadership of the BJP told him that he was the leader of the party in the state and had administrative experience hence his staying out was not advisable Fadnavis saidThe vision of a developed India would be incomplete without Maharashtra said FadnavisIf India needs to become a five trillion dollar economy Maharashtra should be a one trillion dollar economy We are supporting Shinde to make this government successful he saidTo a question Fadnavis asserted that his political stature had increased after becoming deputy chief ministerShinde never made him feel like he was deputy chief minister and they take decisions after consulting each other Fadnavis addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever