The next Chief Minister of Maharashtra will be from the Bharatiya Janata Party, and s/he will be backed by two Deputy Chief Ministers, drawn, most likely, from Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction, and that of Ajit Pawar's NCP.

The focus of this edition of 5ive Live is on the suspense over Maharashtra's next Chief Minister. As the suspense continues, Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said that he has left the decision to decide the next Maharashtra Chief Minister to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP leadership.

Four days have passed since the Mahayuti scored a mammoth win in the Maharashtra Assembly polls, but the BJP-led alliance is yet to announce its Chief Minister choice.

Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde might not be part of the Mahayuti government in Maharashtra if BJP's Devendra Fanavis is made the Chief Minister, sources told ABP News. Shinde resigned as Maharashtra chief minister on Tuesday as the outgoing assembly's term ended.

Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde on Tuesday stepped down as Maharashtra Chief Minister, even as the suspense over who will succeed him as the new CM continued, three days after state assembly election results were announced.

This development coincides with the conclusion of both the assembly's term and the Mahayuti government, which assumed power in June 2022

Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde resigned as Chief Minister of Maharashtra on Tuesday amid suspense over Mahayuti's choice of the next contender for the top post. Shinde tendered his resignation to Governor CP Radhakrishnan at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.

Amid ongoing uncertainty over the Mahayuti alliance's choice for Maharashtra's next chief minister, a leader from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has asserted that the Maratha com