Among other NCP ministers, Jayant Patil has got Irrigation, Chaggan Bhujbal got food and civil supplies, Hasan Mushrif got rural development, Jitendra Awhad got housing, Balasaheb Patil got cooperation department.
MUMBAI: Six days after the Maharashtra cabinet expansion, the ministers on Sunday finally got their portfolios with Sharad Pawar’s NCP taking over some of the most sought-after ministries including finance and home.
Reacting to the portfolio change, opposition BJP said the Uddhav Thackeray-led government may fall in the next few months. NCP’s Ajit Pawar, who is also the deputy chief minister, got finance and planning, while his party colleague Anil Deshmukh got the home department.
Among other NCP ministers, Jayant Patil has got Irrigation, Chaggan Bhujbal got food and civil supplies, Hasan Mushrif got rural development, Jitendra Awhad got housing, Balasaheb Patil got cooperation department, Dilip Walse Patil got excise and labour, and Rajesh Tope has been given public health.
Chief minister Uddhav Thackerayhas got general administration department and law and order, while his son Aaditya Thackeray has got environment and tourism. Among other Shiv Sena ministers, Eknath Shinde has got urban development, Anil Parab got transport, Uday Samant got higher and technical education, Sanjay Rathod got forests, Gulabrao Patil got water supply and sanitation, and Dadaji Bhuse has got agriculture.
Congress was reportedly lobbying to get agriculture from Sena or rural development portfolio from NCP, but it did not succeed.
Among the party ministers, state Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat has been given revenue, former chief minister Ashok Chavan has got public works department (PWD), Nitin Raut got energy, Varsha Gaikwad got school education department, Amit Deshmukh got medical education, Yashomati Thakur got women and child development, and KC Padavi has got tribal affairs.
The portfolio allocation has not been smooth and some ministers are not happy with their portfolios, observers said. Also, a number of legislators of Sena and Congress are upset at being ignored for ministerial berths, they said.
BJP, which is keeping an eye on these developments, has predicted that the Sena-led government would not last for long.
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