Mumbai: As the Maharashtra Assembly welcomed Devendra Fadnavis as the Chief Minister, Bollywood stars lined up at the oath-taking ceremony. Bigwigs of B-town like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Rohit Shetty, Vidya Balan, and her ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’ co-star Madhuri Dixit attended the event in the entertainment capital of India.

Salman and SRK, whose iconic film Karan Arjun was recently re-released in cinemas, were dressed in their formal best. The two hugged each other at Azad Maidan, where the event was held, sending their fans into a frenzy over the “bhaichara.”

While Ranbir was seen dressed in a white kurta-pyjama with a jacket, Ranveer opted for an all-black look in Indo-Western formals with his half-tied hair.

The Maharashtra Assembly elections, conducted on November 20, saw the BJP emerge as the single-largest party with 132 seats. The incumbent Mahayuti alliance of BJP, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde), and Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) completely wiped out the Maha Vikas Aghadi in the assembly elections.

The Mahayuti alliance comprehensively won the Maharashtra Assembly Elections, sweeping 230 out of 288 seats. The Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance of INC, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray), and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) won 46 seats in the state’s Assembly elections.

Devendra Fadnavis returned to the CM’s chair after 5 years and graduated from deputy CM in his last term. Earlier, the Mahayuti alliance kept mum on its selection of the Chief Minister candidate as negotiations were underway with all the alliance’s stakeholders.

The 2019 election was won by the alliance of BJP and Shiv Sena (back when Sena was one unit led by Uddhav Thackeray). However, the follow-up to the 2019 Assembly Elections was quite dramatic, and Uddhav Thackeray sided with INC and the Nationalist Congress Party and was crowned as the Chief Minister.

One thing that troubled the participants at the swearing-in ceremony was the Mumbai heat. The city is currently witnessing an extreme swing in temperatures. On Wednesday, it sizzled on its hottest December day in the past 16 years (since 2008), with maximum temperatures soaring to 37.3 degrees Celsius. Earlier, Mumbai recorded its coldest temperatures in eight years (2016).

 

 

 

 

 

 

–IANS