<p>Mumbai: As the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress</a> went into a huddle in Ahmedabad charting out its future course, Maharashtra Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/devendra-fadnavis">Devendra Fadnavis</a> reiterated that Prime Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</a> would get a fourth term in office after the 2029 Lok Sabha elections. </p><p>“I have said that it is not the right time to think of a successor to Modi, because, in 2029, Modi will be Prime Minister again,” Fadnavis, a senior BJP leader and three-time Chief Minister, said at the Global India Forum in Mumbai on Tuesday. </p>.Fadnavis' aunt slams dissension in BJP's Chandrapur unit: 'We shouldn't become like Congress'.<p>This is the second time in a fortnight’s time that Fadnavis has countered the narrative of Modi’s critics that he would retire after he turns 75.</p><p>Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut raised the issue last month after Modi met RSS chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur during the Gudi Padwa festivities.</p><p>““Modi ji’s successor will be from Maharashtra, and RSS will decide on that…Modi ji visited RSS headquarters to discuss his retirement plans. To my knowledge, in the last 10-11 years, Modi ji has never visited the RSS headquarters. This time, he went to inform Mohan Bhagwat ji that he is saying 'tata-bye-bye',” Raut said.</p>.Let's see if Uddhav follows Balasaheb's ideology or not: CM Fadnavis on Waqf Bill.<p>However, responding to it Fadnavis had said: “There is no need to search for his successor. He (Modi) is our leader and will continue. Discussing succession while the leader is active is inappropriate in Indian culture. In our culture, when the father is alive, it is inappropriate to talk about succession. That is Mughal culture. The time has not come to discuss it.”</p><p>Besides Fadnavis, state BJP President and Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule too had said that Modi will continue to lead after 2029. "There is no rule in the party mandating that a person must retire at 75, and it is the people of the country who would decide on Modi's tenure as the Prime Minister…neither there is no rule in the BJP that Modi should retire from politics after 75, nor has there been any such policy of the BJP,” he had said.</p>
<p>Mumbai: As the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/congress">Congress</a> went into a huddle in Ahmedabad charting out its future course, Maharashtra Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/devendra-fadnavis">Devendra Fadnavis</a> reiterated that Prime Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</a> would get a fourth term in office after the 2029 Lok Sabha elections. </p><p>“I have said that it is not the right time to think of a successor to Modi, because, in 2029, Modi will be Prime Minister again,” Fadnavis, a senior BJP leader and three-time Chief Minister, said at the Global India Forum in Mumbai on Tuesday. </p>.Fadnavis' aunt slams dissension in BJP's Chandrapur unit: 'We shouldn't become like Congress'.<p>This is the second time in a fortnight’s time that Fadnavis has countered the narrative of Modi’s critics that he would retire after he turns 75.</p><p>Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut raised the issue last month after Modi met RSS chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur during the Gudi Padwa festivities.</p><p>““Modi ji’s successor will be from Maharashtra, and RSS will decide on that…Modi ji visited RSS headquarters to discuss his retirement plans. To my knowledge, in the last 10-11 years, Modi ji has never visited the RSS headquarters. This time, he went to inform Mohan Bhagwat ji that he is saying 'tata-bye-bye',” Raut said.</p>.Let's see if Uddhav follows Balasaheb's ideology or not: CM Fadnavis on Waqf Bill.<p>However, responding to it Fadnavis had said: “There is no need to search for his successor. He (Modi) is our leader and will continue. Discussing succession while the leader is active is inappropriate in Indian culture. In our culture, when the father is alive, it is inappropriate to talk about succession. That is Mughal culture. The time has not come to discuss it.”</p><p>Besides Fadnavis, state BJP President and Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule too had said that Modi will continue to lead after 2029. "There is no rule in the party mandating that a person must retire at 75, and it is the people of the country who would decide on Modi's tenure as the Prime Minister…neither there is no rule in the BJP that Modi should retire from politics after 75, nor has there been any such policy of the BJP,” he had said.</p>