Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis, elected Leader of Opposition, said- ... I am Samandar, I will come back again

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was elected unopposed as the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Sunday. Assembly Speaker Nana F. Patole announced the name of Devendra Fadnavis amid a thunderous applause by the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi and opposition MLAs. After this, Fadnavis said that the opponent does not mean the enemy, but there is ideological opposition. Those who were opposed yesterday became friends today and those who were friends became opponents.

Devendra Fadnavis said while speaking in the House that I had said that I will come again. For this, the people of Maharashtra also gave us a mandate, but we did not respect this mandate. I did not say when I will come. But now I want to say that don't see my water coming home, I am sea and will come back again.

Leaders like Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Jayant Patil, Eknath Shinde, Balasaheb Thorat congratulated Devendra Fadnavis and welcomed his election to the post. Devendra Fadnavis (49) became the Chief Minister of the state on behalf of the BJP for the first time in October 2014. He then took oath as Chief Minister in November 2019 and was accompanied by senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister.

However, this government could not run for barely 80 hours and the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance formed the government in the state. Fadnavis, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is from Nagpur and was elected as the Mayor of Nagpur Municipal Corporation for five years in 1997. He has also served as the state president of the BJP.

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