Mumbai. After a bumper victory in the Maharashtra elections, now the Mahayuti is facing a problem regarding the post of Chief Minister. The BJP-led Mahayuti performed brilliantly in the Maharashtra assembly elections and won 230 out of 288 seats, out of which BJP has got 132 seats, while Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena has captured 56 seats and Ajit Pawar's NCP has won 40 seats. If seen from this perspective, its alliance parties do not seem to be anywhere in front of the BJP.

In such a situation, it is believed that Devendra Fadnavis, who led the BJP in the Maharashtra elections, could be the next CM of Maharashtra, but on November 23, on the day of counting, Eknath Shinde created suspense by saying that before the elections, there was no such talk about the post of Chief Minister that whoever gets more seats will be the contender for the post of CM.

This is the reason that even after getting a huge majority, it has not been decided in the Mahayuti as to who will sit on the CM's chair. However, the formula under which BJP-BSP had formed the government in Uttar Pradesh together and an agreement was made on rotation of 6 months each for the CM's post can be applied here. However, this too could not last for long and the state government fell.

As per the agreement, Mayawati remained the Chief Minister from March 1997 to September 1997, after which Kalyan Singh took over as CM on 21 September, but Mayawati withdrew her support just a month later. In such a situation, Kalyan Singh was about to lose his chair, but he proved his majority within two days and then he remained CM till September 1997.

So, a government can be run in Maharashtra with this kind of formula. However, all the parties of the Mahayuti are saying that whatever decision will be taken, it will be unanimous. Now it is interesting to see who will be the CM there. The BJP-led Mahayuti performed brilliantly in the Maharashtra Assembly elections and won 230 out of 288 seats, while the opposition Mahavikas Aghadi comprising Congress, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) faced a crushing defeat and could win only 46 seats.

The Congress was reduced to just 16 seats. Even its senior leaders Prithviraj Chavan and Balasaheb Thorat lost in Karad Dakshin and Sangamner seats. Congress' Maharashtra unit chief Nana Patole won the Sankoli seat by a narrow margin of just 208 votes.