Expanded Maharashtra Cabinet – Complete list of new ministers

(BJP MP Pankaja Munde takes oath as Cabinet Minister.)

Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday (December 15, 2024) expanded his cabinet by introducing 39 new ministers.

Devendra Fadnavis had taken oath as the chief minister on December 05, 2024 with Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar as deputy chief ministers.

Fadnavis announced the expansion of his cabinet and an inauguration ceremony of the new ministers is currently underway in Nagpur.

The expansion of the Maharashtra cabinet comes a day before the monsoon session which begins on Monday, December 16, 2024.

(Malegaon outside MP Dada Bhuse takes oath as minister.)

Among the chief ministers who took oath today were state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule and party MLAs Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Chandrakant Patil, Girish Mahajan and Pankaja Gopinath Munde.

From the Shiv Sena side, Dada Bhuse, Gulabrao Patil and Uday Samant were sworn in as ministers.

Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Munde and Dattatray Bharne are the NCP MPs who took oath as ministers.

A total of 20 BJP MLAs, 10 Shiv Sena MLAs and 09 NCP legislators took oath as ministers at the special investiture ceremony held at Raj Bhavan in Nagpur today.

Here is the list of Maharashtra cabinet ministers

List of BJP ministers

1. Devendra Fadnavis (Chief Minister)
2. Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil
3. Chandrakant Patil
4. Chandrashekhar Bawankule
5. Girish Mahajan
6. Mangal Prabhat Lodha
7. Pankaja Munde
8. To safeguard
9. Ashok Uike
10. Ashish Shelar
11. Ganesh Naik
12. Shivendraraje Bhosle
13. Jaykumar Gore
14. Sanjay Savkare
15. Akash Fundkar
16. Nitesh Rane
17. Madhuri Misal (Mos)
18. Prakash Abitkar
19. Pankaj Bhoyar (MoS)
20. Jaykumar Rawal
21. Meghna Bordikar (MoS)

List of NCP ministers (Ajit Pawar)

1. Ajit Pawar (Deputy Chief Minister)
2. Hasan Mushrif
3. Bharne Data Plateau
4. Aditi Tatkare
5. Dhananjay Munde
6. Narhari Zirwal
7. Manikrao Kokate
8. Makrand Jadhav-Patil
9. Babasaheb Patil
10. Indraneel Naik

List of ministers of Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde)

1. Eknath Shinde (Deputy Chief Minister)
2. Gulabrao Patil
3. Sanjay Rathod
4. Dada Bhuse
5. Oudaï Samant
6. Shambhuraj Desai
7. Bharat Gogawale
8. Sanjay Shirsat
9. Ashish Jaiswal (MoS)
10. Yogesh Kadam (MoS)
11. Pratap Sarnaik

Sillod MP Abdul Sattar, Deepak Kesarkar and Tanaji Sawant, all from Shiv Sena, were ministers in the Eknath Shinde cabinet. They were, however, abandoned by Fadnavis.

Eknath Shinde was Chief Minister of Maharashtra in the erstwhile government which retained power in the state after win the 2024 legislative elections.

The ministers’ portfolios will be announced soon. But, according to sources, the Shiv Sena and the NCP are expected to retain the portfolios they held in the previous Mahayuti government, with the Shiv Sena getting an additional ministry.

The BJP is likely to retain major departments such as revenue, education, power and irrigation. The NCP is expected to retain the finance, cooperatives, agriculture and sports portfolios.

The ruling Mahayuti Alliance comprising BJP, NCP (Ajit Pawar) and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) won the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections, winning a total of 235 of the 288 seats.

The final ECI data shows that the BJP won 132 seats, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) 57 seats while the NCP (Ajit Pawar) won a total of 41 seats.

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