Mahayuti Supporters Throng Azad Maidan

Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as Maharashtra's chief minister for the third time at the sprawling Azad Maidan in south Mumbai.

In addition to the political celebrities -- Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, Union Home Minister Amit A Shah, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Roads Minister Nitin Gadkari, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Bharatiya Janata Party President J P Nadda, chief ministers of several NDA-ruled states including Nitish Kumar (Bihar), Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Pramod Sawant (Goa), Bhupendra Patel (Gujarat), Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam), Pushkar Singh Dhami (Uttarakhand), Vishnu Deo Sai (Chhattisgarh), Mohan Yadav (Madhya Pradesh), Bhajan Lal Sharma (Rajasthan), Nayab Singh Saini (Haryana) -- tycoons Mukesh D Ambani and Kumarmangalam Birla and Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit-Nene, Sanjay Dutt and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, hundreds of the aam janta attended the swearing in ceremony which also saw Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar taking the oath of office as deputy chief ministers.

IMAGE: Mahayuti supporters from across the state traveled to Mumbai for the swearing-in ceremony, here and below. Photograph: Sahil Salvi for Rediff.com

Photograph: Sahil Salvi for Rediff.com

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IMAGE: BJP politician Navneet Kaur Rana, who lost the Amravati Lok Sabha seat in June, arrives for the swearing-in ceremony. Photograph: Sahil Salvi for Rediff.com

IMAGE: Former Maharashta chief minister Narayan Rane, whose sons Nilesh and Nitesh won the Maharashtra assembly election from Kudal and Kankavli respectively, arrives at Azad Maidan. Photograph: Sahil Salvi for Rediff.com

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