BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, who became the Maharashtra CM for second time in a row after a surprise early Saturday morning oath ceremony,said “Modi hai toh mumkin hai”, as reported by new agency while greeting workers outside party office in Mumbai .“We will provide a stable government. Modi hai toh mumkin hai,” said the second time chief minister.Minutes after Devendra Fadnavis took oath as chief minister, PM Modi tweeted his congratulations to him and his deputy and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)leader Ajit Pawar.

“I am confident they will work diligently for the brightfuture of Maharashtra,” PM Modi tweeted.The BJP staked claim to form thegovernment on Saturday morning after which governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari askedthe Centre to withdraw the Central rule in Maharashtra.

“There was a need to form a stable government inMaharashtra. I want to thank Ajit Pawar for giving us this support. Along withPawar there are section of MLAs and other independent legislators who aresupporting us. We will now prove our majority on the floor of the house,” saidFadnavis soon after taking oath.“The mandate of the people was for BJP-Sena butsince the latter insulted this mandate we took this decision,” he said.

Echoing Fadnavis’s views, his now deputy Ajit Pawar said: “Itook this decision as the discussions of the alliance of the three partiesCongress, NCP and Shiv Sena was not ending. There was a need to give a stablegovernment in Maharashtra.”In a stunning turn of events from last night whenNCP chief Sharad Pawar announced that Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray will be theCM face of Sena-NCP-Congress combine in Maharashtra, the state woke up to thenews of BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis taking oath alongside NCP’s Ajit Pawar.

The state of Maharashtra was placed under President’s ruleon November 12 after no party could claim the numbers required to form agovernment.

The Sena, which was BJP’s pre-poll alliance partner, brokeranks over the issue of rotational chief ministership. Uddhav Thackeray thenmade the lone Sena minister, Arvind Sawant, in the union cabinet to resign.Thereafter, the Sena got in talks with the NCP and the Congress. Thackeray’srare call to party chief Sonia Gandhi set the ball rolling in the Congress campand subsequently the talks over the government formation in the financialcapital of the country among the ideologically divergent parties gathered pace.