Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion: On the 23rd day of the assembly election results in Maharashtra, the cabinet was expanded in Nagpur on Sunday. 33 cabinet and 6 state ministers took oath in the Devendra Fadnavis government. This number has reached 42 including the CM and 2 deputy CMs. A total of 43 ministers can take oath in the cabinet. One seat has been kept vacant.
In the Fadnavis government, 19 ministers have been included from BJP, 11 from Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) and 9 from NCP (Ajit Pawar faction). Among them, 4 women (3 BJP, 1 NCP) and 1 Muslim (NCP) face have got a place. The youngest minister in the cabinet is Aditi Tatkare (36) of NCP and the oldest minister is Ganesh Naik (74) of BJP.
BJP’s Pankaj Bhoyar (PHD) is the most educated minister. Shiv Sena’s Bharat Gogavale is the least educated minister (8th pass). The cabinet includes 2 ministers in the age group of 30-40 years, 12 in the age group of 40-50 years, 12 in the age group of 50-60 years and 13 ministers above 60 years of age.
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See the full list of ministers here
| Name of the Minister | Party | Cabinet Minister/MoS |
| Chandrashekhar Bawankule | BJP | Cabinet |
| Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil | BJP | Cabinet |
| Hasan Mushrif | NCP | Cabinet |
| Dhananjay Munde | NCP | Cabinet |
| Chandrakant Patil | BJP | Cabinet |
| Girish Mahajan | BJP | Cabinet |
| Gulabrao Patil | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| Ganesh Naik | BJP | Cabinet |
| Good morning Lodha | BJP | Cabinet |
| Grandpa Chaff | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| sanjay rathore | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| Uday Samant | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| Jaykumar Rawal | BJP | Cabinet |
| Pankaja Munde | BJP | Cabinet |
| Atul Savey | BJP | Cabinet |
| Ashok Uikey | BJP | Cabinet |
| Shambhuraje Desai | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| Ashish Shelar | BJP | Cabinet |
| Dattatreya Vithoba Bharne | NCP | Cabinet |
| Aditi Sunil Tatkare | NCP | Cabinet |
| Shivendra Raje Bhosale | BJP | Cabinet |
| Manikrao Kokate | NCP | Cabinet |
| Jaykumar Gore | BJP | Cabinet |
| Narhari Sitaram Jirwal | NCP | Cabinet |
| Sanjay Savkare | BJP | Cabinet |
| Sanjay Shirsat | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| Pratap Sarnaik | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| Bharat Gogavale | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| makarand jadhav | NCP | Cabinet |
| Nitesh Rane | BJP | Cabinet |
| breaking the sky | BJP | Cabinet |
| Babasaheb Patil | NCP | Cabinet |
| Prakash Ambedkar | Shiv Sena | Cabinet |
| Madhuri example | BJP | Minister of State |
| Ashish Jaiswal | Shiv Sena | Minister of State |
| Dr. Pankaj Bhoyar | BJP | Minister of State |
| Meghna Bordikar Sakore | BJP | Minister of State |
| Indranil Naik | NCP | Minister of State |
| Yogesh Kadam | Shiv Sena | Minister of State |
4 things related to the new cabinet
- Ministers were sworn in after 33 years in Nagpur. Earlier, in 1991, the cabinet of Congress CM Sudhakarrao Naik was expanded.
- BJP MLC Pankaja Munde and her brother NCP MLA Dhananjay Munde have been made cabinet ministers. Both belong to the Gopinath Munde family.
- Nilesh Rane has become a minister from BJP quota. He is the son of BJP MP from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg and former CM Narayan Rane. His brother is also an MLA.
- Ajit Pawar said that the tenure of the ministers who will take oath will be two and a half years. This rule will be applicable to all the MLAs of Mahayuti.
BJP will have Home, Shiv Sena will get Health and NCP will get Finance
Reports are claiming that BJP wants to keep Home, Revenue, Higher Education, Law, Energy and Rural Development with itself.
The party has offered health, urban development, public works, industry to Shiv Sena. Whereas, departments like finance, planning, cooperation, agriculture have been offered to NCP.
The cabinet expansion was delayed due to lack of consensus on the Home and Finance ministries. Deputy CM Eknath Shinde was claiming the Home and Finance ministries, while the BJP did not want to give the Home Ministry to anyone.
In the Shinde government, the Home Ministry was with the then Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. Therefore, Eknath Shinde wanted to keep the Home Ministry with himself.
Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024 Results
Seats 288 | Majority 145
Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance): 230
- BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party): 132
- Shiv Sena (Shinde Group): 57
- NCP (Ajit Group): 41
Maha Vikas Aghadi: 46
- Congress: 16
- Shiv Sena (Uddhav Group): 20
- NCP (Sharad Group): 10
Others: 12
