Fadnavis stays home, Shinde gets urban development, Ajit Pawar Finance and Planning

Maharashtra has 36 ministers, including the chief minister and 6 state ministers.

Mumbai: Portfolios were announced on Saturday for the new Mahayuti government in Maharashtra, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis retaining the Home, Law and Justice departments and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde getting urban development, housing and public works.

NCP chief and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has the finance, planning and excise departments.

The portfolios were announced almost a week after the expansion of the Fadnavis-led government and almost a month after the parliamentary election results.

Fadnavis retained energy (excluding renewable energy), general administration, information and publicity as well as departments assigned to no minister.

Pankaja Munde was assigned environment, climate change and animal husbandry.

Maharashtra has 36 ministers, including the chief minister and 6 state ministers.

Pankaja Munde was assigned environment, climate change and animal husbandry.

Among other leaders, Chandrashekhar Prabhavati Krishnarao Bawankule obtained revenue, Hasan Sakina Miyalal Mushrif received medical education, Chandrakant Saraswati Bacchu Patil received higher and technical education and parliamentary affairs; Girish Geeta Dattatraya Mahajan is responsible for water resources (Vidharbha, Tapi, Konkan Development Corporation), disaster management; Dadaji Reshmabai Dagaduji Bhuse obtained school education; Aditi Varada Sunil Tatkare got women and child development and Manikrao Saraswati Shivaji Kokate was given the agriculture department.

Fadnavis and his two deputies were sworn in on December 5. The Maharashtra cabinet was expanded on December 15 with 39 leaders taking oath as ministers.

BJP ministers include Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Chandrakant Patil, Girish Mahajan, Ganesh Naik, Mangalprabhat Lodha, Jaykumar Rawat, Pankaja Munde, Atul Save, Ashok Uike, Ashish Shelar, Shivendra Raje Bhosale, Jaikumar Gore, Sanjay Savkare. , Nitesh Rane and Akash Pundkar.

Shiv Sena leaders who were sworn in on December 15 include Gulab Patil, Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Rathod, Uday Samant, Shambhuraje Desai, Sanjay Shirsath, Pratap Sarnaik, Bharatshet Gogavale and Prakash Abitkar.

NCP leaders in the state cabinet are Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Munde, Datta Bharane, Aditi Tatkare, Manikrao Kokate, Narhari Jhirwal, Mankarand Jadhav Patil and Babasaheb Patil.

The six state ministers sworn in include Madhuri Misal, Pankaj Bhoar and Meghna Bordikar of the BJP, Ashish Jaiswal and Yogesh Kadam of Shiv Sena, and Indranil Naik of the NCP.

The 2024 Maharashtra Assembly Election witnessed a decisive victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti alliance, securing a landslide victory with 235 seats. The results marked a milestone for the BJP, which emerged as the largest party with 132 seats.

The Shiv Sena and the NCP also made notable gains, with 57 and 41 seats respectively.

The Mahayuti alliance consisted of BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party led by Ajit Pawar.