Ashok Chavan to continue as Maharashtra CM

KEEPING THE JOB: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan rewarded for party's poll victory.

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New Delhi: Congress leader Ashok Chavan is certain to continue as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, sources in the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have told CNN-IBN.

A formal announcement for Chavan is likely to made on Saturday when newly elected Congress MLAs meet to choose their leader in the Assembly.

Chavan was always the frontrunner for the post, having taken over from Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh soon after the Mumbai terror attacks.

Deshmukh, who still has considerable clout in the state Congress, has consistently kept himself out of the race for the Chief Minister's office. He met Congress president Sonia Gandhi earlier on Friday.

Chavan, on Thursday, said that people of Maharashtra voted for development after the Congress-NCP alliance achieved its third consecutive victory in the Assembly elections.

"The biggest achievement of the Congress government was waiving-off farmer loans. Good FDIs and increased industrial development in the state has also been our achievement,” Chavan told CNN-IBN.

Chavan was elected from the Bhokar Assembly seats by 1.07 lakh votes.

Amongst the major winners in Maharashtra were Rajendrasingh Shekhawat, son of President Pratibha Patil and the children of union ministers Sushilkumar Shinde and Vilasrao Deshmukh--while Shinde's daughter Praniti won from Solapur City Central, Deshmukh's son Amit bagged the Latur seat.