Riding the Wave
A confident Devendra Fadnavis steps out to seek a second term for the BJP-sena government in the Assembly election.
Devendra Fadnavis's 4,232-kilometre Mahajanadesh Yatra across Maharashtra could well be a metaphor for how far he has come in his political journey. Gone is the diffident political novice who took over as the youngest chief minister of the state (after Sharad Pawar) in 2014. Circa 2019, Fadnavis seems very much in command, exuding an air of confidence in all that he says and does, a politician who has shown himself capable of taking on more seasoned opponents such as the Nationalist Congress Party's Sharad Pawar and the Shiv Sena's Uddhav Thackeray.
Five years ago, seniors in the state BJP, such as Eknath Khadse, Prakash Mehta, Girish Bapat, Raosaheb Danve and Vinod Tawde, treated Fadnavis as a junior. Today, there is no doubt
