Mumbai Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde is going to expand his cabinet today. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari will administer the oath to the new ministers at 11 am. Shinde and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis were sworn in as CM and deputy CM on June 30. He proved his majority on 4 July. In such a situation, after 40 days, now other ministers are being included in the government. According to sources, about 20 ministers can be made from Shinde’s faction and BJP today. Later the cabinet will be expanded once again. In such a situation, it is clear that all the MLAs of Shinde faction are not going to get ministerial posts.
At present, the names of Uday Samant, Dada Bhuse, Shambhuraje Desai, Sandipan Bhumre, Rajendra Yadraokar, Bharat Gogavale, Bacchu Kadu, Sanjay Shirsath, Gulabrao Patil, Sada Sarwankar, Tanaji Sawant, Ashish Jaiswal and Prakash Abhitkar from Shinde faction to be made ministers. Used to be. Which of these is made a minister, it will be known sometime before 11 o’clock. Similarly from BJP Chandrakant Patil, Girish Mahajan, Subhash Deshmukh, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Suresh Khade, Vijaykumar Gavit, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Jaykumar Rawal, Atul Save, Ganesh Naik, Sandeep Dhurve, Rajendra Patni, Nitesh Rane, Sameer Kunawar, Devyani Farande and Randhir Savarkar are also in the race to become ministers. Whose lottery takes place, it will be decided after a few hours.
Let us tell you that the opposition was constantly targeting the new government in Maharashtra for not expanding the cabinet. Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ajit Pawar had said that Shinde has promised to make all the MLAs who support him as ministers, but he cannot give them all the posts. For this reason, they are engaged in brainstorming. Pawar had also demanded that CM Eknath Shinde should also explain the reason for the delay in cabinet expansion. On Monday, Ajit also said that he is not aware of the cabinet expansion program. They haven’t received the invitation letter yet.