Senior BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar, Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil, and former water resources minister Girish Mahajan are likely to, be inducted into the Shinde-Fadnavis team, sources added.
Mumbai: Five MLAs from the Bhartiya Janata Party and four from the Shinde Sena are expected to take oath in at the much-awaited cabinet expansion in Maharashtra today, according to reports.
The cabinet expansion comes 40 days after a revolt by a Shiv Sena faction led by then Thackeray loyalist Eknath Shinde brought down the Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray-led government.
The Opposition had criticized the delay in expanding the cabinet following the swearing-in of Eknath Shinde, who led the rebellion, as chief minister and the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy in June.
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Senior BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar, Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil, and former water resources minister Girish Mahajan are likely to, be inducted into the Shinde-Fadnavis team, sources added.
Sources further said, from the Shinde Sena, Gulab Raghunath Patil, Sada Sarvankar, and spokesperson of the Shinde faction Deepak Vasant Kesarkar are likely to take oath tomorrow.
Shiv Sena MLA Shinde and BJP leader, Devendra Fadnavis, were sworn in as chief minister and Deputy chief minister respectively on June 30.
After the resignation of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, due to a revolt in the Sena ranks.
The Shinde-Fadnavis duo had been functioning as a two-member cabinet since then, inviting criticism from the Opposition. MR Fadnavis and Mr. Shinde visited Delhi multiple times in the recent past regarding the issue of cabinet expansion.
According to sources, Mr. Fadnavis is likely to get the Home portfolio, which he held during his first term as CM, from 2015-2020.
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