Mumbai, Dec 15: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on SUnday announced that 39 leaders have been sworn in as cabinet ministers, including six as state ministers. The allocation of portfolios is expected to be completed within the next two days.
The cabinet expansion of the BJP-led Maharashtra government took place in a ceremony in Nagpur, where 39 ministers took their oath of office. The oath was administered by Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan, with Chief Minister Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar in attendance at the event, held at Raj Bhavan.
The newly appointed cabinet ministers from the BJP 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 took the oath include Gulab Patil, Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Rathod, Uday Samant, Shambhuraje Desai, Sanjay Shirsath, Pratap Sarnaik, Bharatshet Gogavale, and Prakash Abitkar.
From the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Hasan Mushrif, Dhananjay Munde, Datta Bharane, Aditi Tatkare, Manikrao Kokate, Narhari Jhirwal, Mankarand Jadhav Patil, and Babasaheb Patil were inducted into the cabinet.
In addition, six state ministers were sworn in: BJP's Madhuri Misal, Pankaj Bhoar, and Meghna Bordikar; Shiv Sena's Ashish Jaiswal and Yogesh Kadam; and NCP's Indranil Naik.
