‘WTFadnavis’ to ‘We The Idiots’: How Newspapers Covered the BJP’s Maharashtra ‘Coup’ | The Quint

On Saturday, 23 November, the BJP took the opposition as well as the nation by surprise when Devendra Fadnavis took oath as Chief Minister of Maharashtra in the wee hours of the morning. This even before newspapers, which were printed the previous day, had reached people’s doorsteps. Almost all of them had a front page headline that said that Uddhav Thackeray was becoming Maharashtra’s next chief minister. So, how did the newspapers cover the BJP’s coup Sunday morning? Let’s take a look.

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