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Will Devendra Fadnavis call the shots playing second fiddle in Maharashtra?

The last time he tried to become CM is an episode everyone in the BJP would rather forget

Devendra Fadnavis
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Devendra Fadnavis | Photo: PTI

Aditi Phadnis
Devendra Fadnavis was just four years old when his father, a lifelong RSS pracharak, was jailed by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency. Fadnavis used to study at the local Indira Convent. One morning, he told his mother he wouldn’t go to school anymore: He didn’t want to study in a school named after a woman who had sent his father to prison.

Now, as he settles in his new position as deputy chief minister of a state where he had been CM twice, will he be in the driver’s seat or Chief Minister Eknath Shinde? We know that there is no