The stage is set for the first Maharashtra cabinet expansion amid a tussle over portfolio allocation among Mahayuti constituents - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), National Congress Party (NCP) and Shiv Sena. The BJP may induct a few fresh faces in the cabinet, the sources said. The new ministers will take oath at around 4 pm in Nagpur. For the second time after 1991, the swearing-in ceremony of ministers is being organized in Nagpur. Maharashtra governor CP Radhakrishnan will administer the oath to the new ministers at the Raj Bhavan.
Shiv Sena is likely to get Housing Ministry
The BJP is expected to cede the Housing Ministry to the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra following the likely cabinet expansion in the state, sources said, adding that the BJP will retain the home ministry. With former chief minister Eknath Shinde now as one of the two deputies to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the BJP may give his party one more important ministry, they added. The sources said Shiv Sena's Deepak Kesarkar, Tanaji Sawant, and Abdul Sattar may be dropped.
NCP to retain Finance Ministry
Deputy CM and NCP chief Ajit Pawar is likely to retain the Finance Ministry.
According to sources, there are two proposals -
Around 30 MLAs can take oath as ministers - 15 from BJP, 8 from Shinde Shiv Sena and 7 from NCP. Or only 18 to 20 MLAs can be sworn in as ministers - 10 from BJP, 4-5 from Shinde Shiv Sena and 4-5 from NCP.
Another probability is that the BJP may make 21 ministers, Shiv Sena 12 and NCP 10. Hence, the total number of ministers would be 43.
19 BJP leaders receive calls for oath
- Chandrashekhar Bawankule
- Nitesh Rane
- Shivendraraje Bhosale
- Chandrakant Patil
- Pankaj Bhoyar
- Mangal Prabhat Lodha
- Girish Mahajan
- Jaikumar Rawal
- Pankaja Munde
- Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
- Ganesh Naik
- Meghna Bordikar
- Madhuri Misal
- Atul Save
- Ashok Uike
- Jaikumar More
- Sanjay Savkare
- 19. Ashish Shelar
Shiv Sena's leaders receive call
- Uday Samant
- Pratap Sarnaik
- Shambhuraj Desai
- yoga steps
- Ashish Jaiswal
- Bharat Gogavale
- Prakash Abitkar
- grandfather husk
- Gulabrao Patil
- Sanjay Rathod
- Sanjay Shirsat
Call to NCP MLAs for ministerial posts
- Aditi Tatkare
- Babasaheb Patil
- Hasan Mushrif
- Dattatreya Bharne
- Makarand Patil
- Narhari Jhirwal
- Dhananjay Munde
According to sources, the list of all three parties has been sent to PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. All three parties have sent a list of some senior experienced and some young new faces. The top leadership of BJP wants to give a chance to clean and new faces. If this happens, then some big leaders of BJP, Shiv Sena, and NCP may be dropped and new faces can be seen in the cabinet.