The decision was taken at a meeting of the Maharashtra BJP’s core group with party president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
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Press Trust of India New Delhi
The BJP on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of a change in leadership in Maharashtra following its poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections and asserted that it was formulating a blueprint for the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP combine to win the state assembly elections due later this year.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Maharashtra BJP’s core group with party president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
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“There will be no change in the leadership in Maharashtra,” Union Minister Piyush Goyal told reporters at the BJP headquarters.
Goyal said the leaders discussed strategies to ensure re-election of the Mahayuti alliance in the upcoming state assembly elections.
The meeting was attended by senior BJP leaders BL Santosh, Bhupender Yadav, Ashvini Vaishnav, state BJP leaders Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Sudheer Mungantiwar, Chandrakant Patil, Pankaja Munde, Raosaheb Danve and Vinod Tawde.
The BJP won nine seats in Maharashtra in the recent Lok Sabha elections, down from 23 in 2019.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has offered to step down from the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP government led by Mahayuti to focus on leading the organisation to victory in the state assembly elections due in September-October.
Speculation was also rife in the state whether Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) would remain in the ruling alliance.
“We have prepared a blueprint along with our partners in the Mahayuti coalition to win the upcoming state assembly polls and assembly elections,” Fadnavis said after the meeting.
The meeting at the BJP headquarters also discussed the party’s performance in the Indian Lok Sabha elections.
Fadnavis said the vote difference between the ruling Mahayuti Party and the opposition Mahavikas Aghadi Party (MVA) was just 0.3 percent, and the two party leaders held a detailed discussion on the BJP’s weaknesses and strengths in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP-Shiv Sena combine won 41 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra in the 2019 general elections. The current National Democratic Alliance (NDA) tally has fallen to a total of 17 seats, with the BJP winning nine, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena winning seven and the NCP winning one.
Fadnavis said the leaders discussed the results of the Lok Sabha elections and prepared a blueprint for the upcoming state assembly elections.
He added that BJP leaders will also hold discussions with the Shiv Sena and the NCP on strategy for the state assembly elections.
