Maharshtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Devendra Fadnavis reached Chief Minster Eknath Shinde’s official residence for a late-night meeting on July 11. After splitting the NCP down the middle and joining the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra along with 8 senior MLAs, Ajit Pawar took oath as the deputy chief minister. Notably, there has been political turmoil in Maharashtra since various leaders of the NCP joined BJP. NCP suffered a split after the party's working president, Ajit Pawar, along with some of his supporter MLAs joined the Maharashtra government. Also, Pawar and 8 MLAs took oath as ministers in the state cabinet.