Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis asserted on Wednesday that the President's Rule was imposed in Maharashtra in 2019 with the consent of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar, stated a report in PTI. Fadnavis made this statement in response to a question at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai regarding the timeline of his brief attempt to form a government in collaboration with the NCP.

In a surprising turn of events in Maharashtra's political landscape following the 2019 elections, then-Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administered the oath of office to Devendra Fadnavis as Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister on November 23, 2019. However, this government fell after just about 72 hours.