India, Feb. 1 -- In a major development, the BJP-led Mahayuti government will set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate an alleged conspiracy to frame chief minister and then opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis, and deputy chief minister and then urban development minister Eknath Shinde, during the tenure of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra. The SIT will be headed by joint commissioner of police, Satyanarayan Choudhary.

The decision could mean trouble for several senior ministers in the MVA government, including then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and then home minister Anil Deshmukh, among others.

Alleging that the MVA government had targeted Fadnavis as he had exposed corruption during its t...