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MUMBAI: The new Mahayuti government will be sworn in on December 5 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Azad Maidan in Mumbai, state BJP unit said. "The oath-taking

ceremony of the Mahayuti Government in Maharashtra will be held in the presence of Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 5 PM at Azad Maidan,

Mumbai," state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule stated on X on Saturday evening. Earlier a senior BJP leader had said that the new government will be formed on December 5 with

Devendra Fadnavis emerging as the frontrunner to become the next chief minister again. In the November 20 Maharashtra assembly polls, the Mahayuti alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP), Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) retained power, pocketing a whopping 230 of the 288 assembly seats. The BJP emerged as the single

largest party, winning 132 seats, followed by Shiv Sena with 57 and NCP with 41 seats. However, even after the announcement of poll results a week ago (on November 23), the formation of the

government has been delayed as the tripartite alliance is yet to decide on who will be the next chief minister. Shinde, Fadnavis and Pawar met BJP president J P Nadda and Union minister Amit

Shah late Thursday to discuss a power-sharing pact for the next government.