20 May,2025 06:56 AM IST | Mumbai | Sanjeev Shivadekar
Chhagan Bhujbal
Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal will take oath as a Maharashtra cabinet minister on Tuesday, May 20, at 10 AM. The ceremony will take place at Raj Bhavan.
"I have been informed that I will be inducted into the state cabinet. The oath ceremony will take place at 10 am on Tuesday," he said.
The veteran politician will be sworn in by Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan at Raj Bhavan.
Bhujbal, who is seen as a strong OBC leader, was unhappy earlier as his name was not included in the Mahayuti government. Now, with Dhananjay Munde resigning after the Beed Sarpanch murder case controversy, the seat from Ajit Pawar's NCP quota is vacant.
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Political experts believe Bhujbal will now replace Munde in the cabinet. After the swearing-in ceremony, the regular weekly cabinet meeting which takes place on every Tuesday will be held in Mumbai.
Bhujbal (77), who has had a distinguished and eventful political career spanning several decades, had been notably absent during Chief Minister Fadnavis's cabinet expansion in December last year.
At the time, his exclusion from the cabinet had drawn public disappointment from the seasoned leader, a prominent OBC face in the state.
In the past, Bhujbal, the MLA from Yeola in Nashik district, has served as a cabinet minister, including as deputy CM, in different governments.
The ruling Mahayuti coalition consists of the BJP, the Shiv Sena and the NCP led by Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar.
