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It was day of drama. First the Supreme Court ruled the floor Test should be conducted before 5pm on November 27.
Soon after the ruling Ajit Pawar , whom the BJP thought would bring the required numbers for majority resigned to give the twist to the whole month long drama. Setting the stage for CM Devendra Fadnavis to resign. He had no option but to follow.
Hence, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis now holds the dubious distinction of being the CM with the shortest tenure of four days in the last 59 years, a downhill journey which underlines transient nature of politics.
On Tuesday afternoon, Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis, 49, resigned from his post, only three days after he made a dramatic comeback as the chief minister for a second term with the support of Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar, who had broken ranks with his parent party to lend support to the BJP.
However, what was supposed to be a dream run for Fadnavis came to an abrupt end in afternoon after Ajit Pawar stepped down as deputy CM, exposing the BJP’s claim that it had majority in the 288-member assembly.
Earlier P K Sawant held the record of being the Maharashtra CM with the shortest term — from November 25 to December 4, 1963. He was made the caretaker chief minister after the death of his predecessor Marotrao Kannamwar.
Fadnavis’ previous term as the chief minister lasted from October 31, 2014 to November 12, 2019, making him only the second CM after Vasantrao Naik of the Congress to last the full five-year term.
