Earlier this year, on July 22, Aam Aadmi Party leader Anjali Damania, while wishing Devendra Fadnavis on his birthday mentioned to him that he shared it with none other than Ajit Pawar. The response was prompt: Since Pawar is 12 years older, Fadnavis said, they are poles apart.
If perceptions and brand images are anything to go by, Fadnavis could not have been more right. The first BJP chief minister of Maharashtra is riding on a “clean image” wave. Ironically former Congress CM Prithviraj Chavan too had the same clean image, though he was eventually perceived as inefficient.