Mumbai confidential: Trusted lieutenants
Even as efforts to form a new government were underway, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis refused to talk to the media. He devised various strategies to avoid the media.
Maharashta Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. (Express file photo by Narendra Vaskar) WHEN THE Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction was to be ferried from Mumbai to Surat and later to Guwahati and Goa, the work of logistics was given to BJP MLC Prasad Lad, a leader close to deputy Devendra Fadnavis. The work of accompanying the MLAs was assigned to former BJP ministers Girish Mahajan and Ravindra Chavan from Mumbai to Surat. While MLA Sanjay Kute was staying in the hotel with the MLAs at Surat to ensure nothing goes wrong.
In stealth mode
EVEN AS efforts to form a new government were underway, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis refused to talk to the media. He devised various strategies to avoid the media, including travelling in unofficial vehicles as part of the convoy of other leaders. The leaders would stop their vehicles to interact with the media acting as a red herring while Fadnavis drove off in another vehicle.
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