No change in BJP Maharashtra's leadership after poor feat in Lok Sabha polls

The BJP on Tuesday ruled out any change in its leadership in Maharashtra after the partys poor showing in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections reported PTIThe decision came after the Maharashtra BJPs core group meeting with party president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit ShahThere will be no change in leadership in Maharashtra Union Minister Piyush Goyal told reporters at the BJP headquartersThe meeting was attended by state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule senior leaders Sudhir Mungantiwar Chandrakant Patil Pankaja Munde and Vinod Tawde among othersThe BJP won nine seats in Maharashtra in the recent Lok Sabha elections a far cry from its 2019 tally of 23As per the PTI report Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had offered to resign from the MahaYuti government of Shiv SenaBJPNCP and focus on the organisation to win the SeptemberOctober assembly electionsThe meeting at the BJP headquarters also discussed the partys performance in the Lok Sabha electionsThe leaders discussed the Lok Sabha election performance and planned the blueprint for the upcoming assembly polls Fadnavis said briefing reporters on the meetingFadnavis said the BJP leaders will also talk with allies Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawarled Nationalist Congress Party NCP on the strategy for the assembly electionsEknath Shinde holds meeting with Dy CMs BJP leaders head for review meet in DelhiMaharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde held a late night meeting with Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar after which some state BJP leaders left for Delhi for a review meet sources told PTI on TuesdayAccording to PTI details of the meeting were not available It was convened in the backdrop of the ruling Mahayutis below par performance in the recentlyconcluded Lok Sabha electionsCM Shinde held a meeting with Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar at his official residence Varsha After Pawar left Shinde and Fadnavis continued the meeting for some time a source in the BJP told PTI on TuesdayBJPs central leadership has called a review meeting with state leaders in connection with the partys performance in the Lok Sabha pollsIt is a routine exercise in the BJP to hold such review meetings with state leaders BJP leader Fadnavis offered to resign some days back after the results were out He had stated that he wished to work for the party fulltime till the state assembly elections This will also be discussed in the Delhi meeting the source told PTIUnion minister Bhupender Yadav has been appointed as incharge of the Maharashtra BJP unit and Ashwini Vaishnaw as its associate inchargeThe Maharashtra assembly elections are due in October this yearIn the recentlyconcluded Lok Sabha polls the ruling Mahayuti comprising the BJP Shiv Sena led by CM Shinde and NCP headed by Ajit Pawar won 17 out of 48 seats in the stateThe BJP won 9 seats Shiv Sena 7 and NCP 1The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising the Congress Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena UBT and NCP SP of Sharad Pawar bagged 30 seats