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Devendra Fadnavis Elected Maharashtra Leader Of Opposition

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and other leaders like Jayant Patil, Eknath Shinde, Balasaheb Thorat also congratulated Fadnavis and welcomed his election to the post.

New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was elected unopposed as the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, in Mumbai on Sunday. The name of Fadnavis to the prestigious post was announced by speaker Nana F. Patole amid applause and thumping of desks by the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi members and the opposition benches. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and other leaders like Jayant Patil, Eknath Shinde, Balasaheb Thorat also congratulated Fadnavis and welcomed his election to the post. Fadnavis, 49, was elected as the first-ever BJP CM of the state in October 2014 and later sworn-in again in November 2019 along with NCP's Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister. However, the two-man government collapsed in barely 80 hours, paving the way for the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress's MVA regime. A member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Fadnavis hails from the state's second capital Nagpur and was elected as Nagpur Municipal Corporation Mayor for five years in 1997 - the second youngest ever in India. Earlier, he had served as the BJP state President and has been elected for the fifth consecutive term starting from 1999 as a MLA from Nagpur, also known as the Orange City. (With agency inputs)
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