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The President’s Rule was imposed in Maharashtra in 2019 with the consent of NCP president Sharad Pawar, said Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis . The NCP chief rejected the claim, saying it was a call taken by the BJP government at the Centre..
Fadnavis made the claim while responding to a question at the India Today Conclave here about the timeline of his attempt to form a short-lived government with the NCP.
In one of the biggest political surprises in Maharashtra after the 2019 polls, the then Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari swore in Fadnavis as the chief minister and Ajit Pawar as deputy CM on November 23, 2019. However, the government fell after about 72 hours.
