{"id":316536,"date":"2019-11-08T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316536"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:47:29","slug":"maharashtra-devendra-fadnavis-resigns-as-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-devendra-fadnavis-resigns-as-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis resigns as CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316537 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/fadnavis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/fadnavis.jpg 716w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/fadnavis-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/fadnavis-696x455.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/fadnavis-643x420.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/>Amid the ongoing tussle between the BJP and the Shiv Sena over government formation in Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis on Friday resigned as chief minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He handed over his resignation to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Devendra Fadnavis\u00a0will be the acting Chief Minister of Maharashtra till a new government is formed, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At a press briefing after submitting his resignation, Fadnavis said there was no agreement between the two allies on a seat-sharing agreement ahead of the Assembly polls in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fadnavis further said, \u201cShiv Sena did not come to us for consultations and went to NCP and Congress instead.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the deadline of November 9 for government formation in the state fast approaching, the Shiv Sena remained firm over its demand for sharing the chief minister&#8217;s post for 2.5 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both the parties have been locked in a bitter tussle over sharing of the chief minister\u2019s post since the assembly election results were announced.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the ongoing tussle between the BJP and the Shiv Sena over government formation in Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis on Friday resigned as chief minister. He handed over his resignation to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. Devendra Fadnavis\u00a0will be the acting Chief Minister of Maharashtra till a new government is formed, sources said. At a press briefing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[9827,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316539,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316536\/revisions\/316539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}