On Saturday, Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the chief minister of Maharashtra and Ajit Pawar as the deputy CM. On Tuesday, both of them resigned

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis today resigned as the Maharashtra chief minister merely three days after he took oath in a controversial turn of events. In his resignation speech, Devendra Fadnavis pinned the blame for a short-lived government on Ajit Pawar, the NCP leader, who has switched sides - twice actually in three days.

Fadnavis said he had decided to resign as chief minister after his deputy Ajit Pawar came to him on Tuesday and said he was resigning "because of some reasons". Devendra Fadnavis also said that the reason he had been able to form government in the first place was because of Ajit Pawar's support. "And so, we used their support to form government".

However, when the Supreme Court ordered a floor test by Wednesday evening in Maharashtra, Fadnavis said, "Ajit Pawar came to me and said I am resigning because of personal reasons." With this, "we don't have majority... so I am going to resign", Fadnavis said.

In his statements, Devendra Fadnavis laid bare the developments of the last few days that began with an early morning oath-taking ceremony that had him and Ajit Pawar taking oaths as the chief minister and deputy chief minister of Maharashtra.

The oath-taking sent shockwaves through Maharashtra's political circles and stunned the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine, which just the evening before had made public plans to take claim to form government under the leadership of Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.

It later turned out that Ajit Pawar had revolted, going against his uncle Sharad Pawar's wishes to back the BJP. The NCP claimed that Ajit Pawar had acted on his own and that the party's MLAs were firmly behind Sharad Pawar.

However, Fadnavis's comments from Tuesday when he resigned suggested that the BJP leader was under the belief Ajit Pawar was bringing the entire -- or most of the -- contingent of the NCP's MLAs to back the BJP.

This was why, Fadnavis said, the BJP thought to stake claim and form government in Maharashtra. A government that had to resign in less than four days because Ajit Pawar came to him and said he was resigning because of "personal reasons".