Due to the Maharashtra results, Devendra Fadnavis wants to resign as deputy chief minister.

Resignation is requested by senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, and his announcement comes months before of Maharashtra’s next Assembly election.

Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, has made a resignation offer and taken ownership of the BJP’s dismal performance in the state’s Lok Sabha election.

“I accept full responsibility for whatever loss we endured in Maharashtra.

I implore upper management to release me from my ministerial responsibilities.”

The top BJP leader claimed that the results had been impacted by problems facing farmers, who have been perceived by some as a troublesome voting base for the saffron party since the 2020–2021 nationwide demonstrations.

Furthermore, he accused the opposition of spreading “false propaganda that the Constitution would be altered”.

The reference was to the Congress’s assertion that the BJP will amend some portions of the Constitution, such as removing the word “secular” from the Preamble if elected with the resounding mandate requested.

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Due to the Maharashtra results, Devendra Fadnavis wants to resign as deputy chief minister.

Mumbai: Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, has made a resignation offer and taken ownership of the BJP’s dismal performance in the state’s Lok Sabha election.

“I accept full responsibility for whatever loss we endured in Maharashtra. I implore upper management to release me from my ministerial responsibilities.”

The top BJP leader claimed that the results had been impacted by problems facing farmers, who have been perceived by some as a troublesome voting base for the saffron party since the 2020–2021 nationwide demonstrations.

Furthermore, he accused the opposition of spreading “false propaganda that the Constitution would be altered”.

The reference was to the Congress’s assertion that the BJP will amend some portions of the Constitution, such as removing the word “secular” from the Preamble, if elected with the resounding mandate requested.

“Outright votes of Muslims and the Maratha movement (also) had an impact,” he stated on Wednesday.

BJP and Allies Err in the Lok Sabha Election

With the support of the then-separate Sena under Uddhav Thackeray, the BJP won 23 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra in 2019.

Of the other 23, the Shiv Sena competed and won 18.

The Chief Minister at the time was Mr. Fadnavis.

This time, the party won just nine seats in coalition with the Sena and NCP breakaway groups that had assisted Mr. Fadnavis in toppling the opposition coalition that replaced him.

Eight of the 19 seats it contested were won by its allies, who were led by newly appointed chief minister and deputy Ajit Pawar, respectively.

The once-unified NCP of Sharad Pawar and Mr. Thackeray’s Sena, on the other hand, won eight of the twelve and nine of the twenty-one seats that were contested.

The parties were renamed after their principal leaders after losing the party name and emblem to the factions.

Out of the 15 seats it ran for, 13 were won by the Congress.

The BJP and the United Sena were victorious in the 2019 state election, causing the Congress to split over power-sharing negotiations and form the third member of the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition.

With 30 of Maharashtra’s 48 seats held by the Sena, NCP, and Congress, the INDIA alliance was able to cut the BJP’s lead from previous polls. With 282 seats in 2014 and 303 in 2019, the BJP has only secured 240 seats this time around.

The bad performance was compounded by the BJP’s terrible performance in Bengal, where it was humiliated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool, and in Uttar Pradesh, where it won less than half of 80 seats after claiming 62 in 2019.

• The party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has to actively rely on NDA allies like Mr. Shinde and Ajit Pawar’s parties since 240 is 32 seats short of the majority threshold.
• Naturally, the departure of Nitish Kumar’s JDU and Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP would cause more of an immediate issue than the loss of Mr. Shinde and Ajit Pawar’s 17 MPs.
• But it would make Mr. Modi’s job as prime minister more difficult.
• The NDA’s stats are keeping steady for the time being. On Saturday, Mr. Modi is scheduled to take the oath of office for a third term, making him the second leader in India to hold three terms, behind Congress icon Jawaharlal Nehru.

2019 Maharashtra Assembly Election

Of the 288 seats in the state, 105 were won by the BJP and 56 by the Sena in the 2019 Assembly election.

Both were expected to form the government without any opposition, but disagreements over who would succeed Mr. Fadnavis as Chief Minister and Mr. Thackeray as Chief Minister caused a bitter breakup.

The Sena then unexpectedly went out to the Congress (44), the NCP (54), and Mr. Thackeray to create the Maha Vikas Aghadi administration.

Three years after Mr. Shinde and dissident Sena officials left and joined the BJP, the MVA was dismantled, setting off a protracted legal and political battle that is still being fought in the Supreme Court.

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