All’s well that ends well, but Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers have been talking about the high voltage drama that culminated in Devendra Fadnavis being convinced to be a deputy chief minister in the Eknath Shinde cabinet, a little ahead of the swearing-in ceremony on Thursday evening.

Initially, Fadnavis said he would sit outside the cabinet while announcing the alliance government with the Shiv Sena rebel group that the BJP has supported with its full strength. A coup of an intensity Uddhav Thackeray and his Maha Vikas Aghadi allies wouldn’t have thought of, was accomplished the moment Shinde was sworn in as the new CM. But the mission had many layers, with the final one unravelling when the Raj Bhavan was preparing for the ‘single oath’ ceremony.