{"id":317324,"date":"2019-12-01T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317324"},"modified":"2019-12-01T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:43:24","slug":"bjps-devendra-fadnavis-elected-as-leader-of-opposition-in-maharashtra-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjps-devendra-fadnavis-elected-as-leader-of-opposition-in-maharashtra-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s Devendra Fadnavis elected as Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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-305773 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fadnavis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis.jpg 1368w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-1068x600.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/fadnavis-748x420.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\" \/>Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was on Sunday elected as the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaker Nana Patole announced the name of Fadnavis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and other leaders congratulated Fadnavis and welcomed his election to the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fadnavis was elected as the first-ever BJP chief minister of the state in October 2014 and later sworn-in again in November 2019 along with NCP&#8221;s Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Fadnavis resigned shortly after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar quit as his deputy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The resignations came after the Supreme Court ordered an immediate floor test, to be telecast live, so that BJP\u2019s Fadnavis could prove his majority in the assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP-led government fell within four days of being sworn in on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was on Sunday elected as the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Speaker Nana Patole announced the name of Fadnavis. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and other leaders congratulated Fadnavis and welcomed his election to the post. Fadnavis was elected as the first-ever BJP chief minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[9827,9990],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317324"}],"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=317324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317325,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317324\/revisions\/317325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}