Claiming that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in no hurry to form the government, opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis has predicted that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will wind up because of internal issues, rather than external forces. He asked Congress and senior leader Rahul Gandhi to share the blame, instead of holding Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and the Shiv Sena entirely responsible for making a mess of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra.

Fadnavis, who had called a press conference on Tuesday, said the state needed assertive political leadership to take bold decisions that should help people during the pandemic and lockdown, and even after it, in a period which will be fraught by several economic challenges. Sympathising with Thackeray's situation, he blamed the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for cornering him.