The ruling alliance in Maharashtra has not announced the name of the incumbent Chief Minister, but a formula for ministerial berths has been established.
The power sharing will be based on a 6-1 formula, meaning one ministerial post will be given for every six MLAs a party has. The BJP, which won 132 seats, will have the maximum number of ministerial posts under the formula. Its allies, Shiv Sena of Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, have also struck a deal.
The tussle is over portfolios, particularly the Home Ministry, which Devendra Fadnavis has been handling for years. The Eknath Shinde faction of Sena argues that the portfolio should be compensation if they have to accept the post of Mr Fadnavis’s Deputy. Ajit Pawar’s NCP has demanded a share equal to that of the Shinde faction in the new government. NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal has declared their “strike rate” is better, so ministerial posts should be given accordingly.
The big reveal is expected to be on Wednesday, when the BJP legislators meet to pick a chief of the legislature party. Most are betting on Devendra Fadnavis, who met Eknath Shinde earlier today. Since the results were declared, leaders of all three parties in the ruling alliance have said they would sit down together to take a call on the issue.
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Source: NDTV
