Mumbai: Devendra Fadnavis, the political stalwart who rose from humble beginnings to become a key figure in Maharashtra politics, was on Thursday evening sworn in as chief minister -- a position he has held twice before. Though Modi had launched a campaign blitzkrieg in the 2014 Lok Sabha and Maharashtra assembly polls, a portion of the credit also went to …
Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray failed to quell the discontent within his own party and resigned as Maharashtra chief minister without putting up a fight, Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar said in the revised version of his autobiography released on Tuesday. He and others also sensed a lack of political deftness in Thackeray, something which a chief minister needs, …