Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis gets Home; CM Eknath Shinde to handle Urban Development

Five days after the induction of 18 ministers into his cabinet Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday allocated portfolios keeping Urban Development and 11 other ministries with himself while giving the crucial Home Department to Deputy CM Devendra FadnavisFadnavis will also handle Finance and Planning another key department a statement from the Chief Ministers Office CMO saidAnother important portfolio the Revenue Department has been given to Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil who had quit the Congress a few months before the 2019 Assembly elections to join the saffron partyShinde had expanded his twomember ministry on Tuesday 41 days after taking oath as the chief minister by inducting 18 ministers nine each from his rebel Shiv Sena group and the BJP However the list did not include any womanApart from the Urban Development Department CM Shinde has kept with himself General Administration Department Public Works Department public sector undertakings Information and Public Relations Transport Marketing Social Justice Disaster Management Relief and Rehabilitation Soil and Water Conservation Environment and Climate Change and Minority DevelopmentAlso Read CM Shinde refutes Uddhavs claim of BJP going back on CM post promise in 2019Fadnavis in addition to Home and Finance and Planning will also handle Law and Judiciary Water Resources Housing Energy and Protocol portfoliosChandrakant Patil considered close to Union Home Minister Amit Shah was given Higher and Technical Education Textile and Parliamentary Affairs ministries In the past he had handled PWD and Cooperation ministriesSudhir Mungantiwar has been allocated Forest Fisheries Development and Cultural Affairs portfolios During his 201419 stint he had headed Finance and Planning as well as Forest ministriesBJPs Atul Save has been given Cooperation and OBC Welfare departments while Ravindra Chavan has got PWD and Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection ministries Both of them were Minister of State for a brief period in the pastFormer Mumbai BJP chief Mangal Prabhat Lodha has got Tourism Development Skill Development and Women and Child Development ministriesFadnavis close confidant Girish Mahajan has been given the responsibility of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Medical Education and Sport and Youth developmentDr Vijaykumar Gavit has been given Tribal Development department while BJP MLA from western Maharashtra Suresh Khade has been given the responsibility of Labour ministryFrom the Shindeled group of Shiv Sena rebels Deepak Kesarkar is the new minister for School EducationGulabrao Patil has retained Water Supply and Sanitation department while Dada Bhuse who previously held Agriculture will now handle Ports and Mining Abdul Sattar has been given Agriculture departmentUday Samant who was previously the Higher and Technical Education minister has been given the Industries departmentThe controversial leader from Shinde camp Sanjay Rathod will handle Food and Drugs Department Rathod who was the forest minister when Uddhav Thackeray was the chief minister was forced to resign after BJP leaders blamed him for a womans suicideWhile Tanaji Sawant has been given the responsibility of Public Health and Family Welfare department Shambhuraj Desai will handle the Excise department and Sandipan Bhumre Employment Guarantee Sheme and Horticulture ministriesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever