ours after Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis offered to resign from government duties on Wednesday, a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party suffered a drubbing in Lok Sabha elections in the state, chief minister Eknath Shinde said he would speak to deputy again.
In a statement, Eknath Shinde said “failures must not discourage us and it is a temporary success to try to get votes by misleading the public”.
“I will be speaking to Devendraji soon. We have worked together in the past and we will keep on working in the future. It is a temporary success to try to get votes by misleading the public… We are moving forward with a development agenda. We have collectively failed to counter the false claims of the opposition,” Eknath Shinde said in the statement.
Hitting out at the Opposition, Eknath Shinde said, “The false narrative that the constitution will change, hurt us. The opposition was shouting 'Modi hatao'. Voters, however, people of India kept them away from power”
“Electoral defeat is a collective responsibility. All three parties had worked together in the elections. If you look at the vote share, Mahayuti got more than two lakh votes in Mumbai. In the last two years, the government has taken many good decisions in the state. Although seats have decreased in this election, votes have increased,” the statement added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Devendra Fadnavis said he would request the BJP top leadership to relieve him from government duties so that he could focus on state assembly polls.
He also conceded that the issues of coordination exist with Eknath Shinde and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar of the NCP.
"I take full responsibility for the BJP's defeat in Maharashtra. I fell short in some places, and the setback in Maharashtra is my fault. To focus on the next assembly elections and fix the shortcomings, I request the top brass of my party to relieve me of my government duties. I will meet my seniors and communicate my expectations to them," Fadnavis said at a press conference at the BJP headquarters in Mumbai.
Fadnavis added that he would hold discussions with his seniors and would work as per their guidance.
"There were some issues of coordination with chief minister Eknath Shinde and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, which we will meet and discuss soon," he said.
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