Mumbai: BJP Central leadership’s move to ask Devendra fadnavis To join Eknathy Shinde As deputy CM, the cabinet has sent the party rank and file in a jiffy. Many see this as a near demotion to Fadnavis’ ‘Operation Lotus’, which he cleverly executed to bring down the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi.MVA) government earlier this week.
As it became clear on Thursday afternoon that Shinde, who had carried out an unprecedented coup Shiv SenaTo be the next chief minister, Fadnavis chose to stay out of the state cabinet. BJP national president JP Nadda blasted with his tweet that Fadnavis should be part of the government. After this the Union Home Minister did Amit Shahof the tweet, which said that Fadnavis had shown a “big heart” by agreeing to be a part of the government “for the benefit of the state government and the public”. Half an hour later, both Shinde and Fadnavis were sworn in at the Raj Bhavan, the latter looking a little sad at the Raj Bhavan. “When he returned home, he had tears in his eyes,” said a close aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A party functionary from south-central Mumbai said on Friday, “While we were finding it difficult to agree with the fact that Devendraji will not lead the new government, we were shocked by the tweets by Naddaji and Amitji.” “While no one questions the privilege of issuing directions to the seniors of the high command while a new political formation is being formed, they could have simply called them out,” he said. Nadda had said that he had made a “personal request” to Fadnavis.
Many think the move may be a message to newcomers to the party – and their numbers are increasing – to adhere to party discipline.
Yet there was murmur in the party that Fadnavis, the poster-boy of the state BJP, was mistreated and deserved better.
As it became clear on Thursday afternoon that Shinde, who had carried out an unprecedented coup Shiv SenaTo be the next chief minister, Fadnavis chose to stay out of the state cabinet. BJP national president JP Nadda blasted with his tweet that Fadnavis should be part of the government. After this the Union Home Minister did Amit Shahof the tweet, which said that Fadnavis had shown a “big heart” by agreeing to be a part of the government “for the benefit of the state government and the public”. Half an hour later, both Shinde and Fadnavis were sworn in at the Raj Bhavan, the latter looking a little sad at the Raj Bhavan. “When he returned home, he had tears in his eyes,” said a close aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A party functionary from south-central Mumbai said on Friday, “While we were finding it difficult to agree with the fact that Devendraji will not lead the new government, we were shocked by the tweets by Naddaji and Amitji.” “While no one questions the privilege of issuing directions to the seniors of the high command while a new political formation is being formed, they could have simply called them out,” he said. Nadda had said that he had made a “personal request” to Fadnavis.
Many think the move may be a message to newcomers to the party – and their numbers are increasing – to adhere to party discipline.
Yet there was murmur in the party that Fadnavis, the poster-boy of the state BJP, was mistreated and deserved better.