Fadnavis is scheduled to take oath as the Chief Minister on December 5 after being unanimously chosen as Leader of Maharashtra BJP Legislative Party earlier in the day.
"We have already fought elections under his leadership. I want to congratulate him. He will take oath as the Chief Minister very soon. I invite everyone to attend the oath-taking ceremony..." Tiwari told ANI.
Names of other cabinet ministers will be finalised soon after discussions with partners in the Mahayuti alliance- the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) and the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar), said the Union Minister.
Ahead of the Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand government oath-taking on December 5 and final decisions on the cabinet expansion, former Congress state chief Rajesh Thakur stated that all the preparations for the alliance "have almost been completed."
Mahayuti alliance leaders visited Mumbai's Azad Maidan to oversee preparations for the oath-taking ceremony of the new Chief Minister on December 5. The event will be attended by senior NDA leaders, Chief Ministers, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"In Jharkhand, the ruling alliance has 56 MLAs... None of the MLAs are there who haven't claimed (to be the minister). Congress even claimed that they would get the deputy CM post. It's been 6 days since the CM has taken oath and the common minimum programme (of ruling alliance) is yet to
BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar on Sunday stated that a meeting will be held to select the BJP's legislative leader, with an announcement to be made ahead of the oath ceremony.
The swearing-in ceremony will be held at around 5 pm on December 5 at Azad Maidan in Mumbai. He added that the event will be conducted in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited her constituency, Wayanad in Kerala, for the first time earlier on Saturday after taking her oath as a Member of Parliament.
"According to me, whenever Eknath Shinde thinks that he needs some time to think he goes to his native village. By tomorrow evening, he will take a big decision. It can be anything, a political decision.... Everything will be cleared by Monday evening... The oath-taking ceremony should be