In distribution of power in Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has grabbed the important portfolios, with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis keeping home, finance and planning. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has kept the Urban Development Department, in addition to several others. The portfolios were assigned on Sunday, five days after the cabinet was expanded.

In addition to Urban Development Department, which successive CMs have kept with themselves, Shinde has the general administration, information technology, information and publicity, Public Works Department [with MSRDC], transport, marketing, social justice, relief and rehabilitation, disaster management, environment and climate change, and minority affairs portfolios.