Upset over not being given a more important charge, Congress minister Vijay Wadettiwar began work on Friday after being assured that he would get the relief and rehabilitation department in addition to some other subjects that were allocated to him in the recent Cabinet expansion. But the party's woes don't seem to have ended as some other ministers are unhappy over the districts allotted to them for guardianship.

Wadettiwar was missing from the scene since the Cabinet expansion for six days as he skipped Cabinet meetings and a special one-way sitting of the legislature early this week. He went incommunicado and approached party high command with a grievance that the department which had gone to the Congress kitty was kept with Shiv Sena minister Sanjay Rathod, who also heads forest and disaster management departments. He did not go to Mantralaya to take charge of the office. He held a grudge that despite being opposition leader in the previous regime, he was given short shrift with the insignificant OBC, SEBC department which the BJP government had carved out of social justice department last year. The department didn't have a full-fledged staff strength and worked from the parent section until recently.