With turncoats being given ministerial berths, Opposition members who raised slogans and displayed placards criticising the BJP and the defectors on the first day of the monsoon session escalated their jibes against their former party colleagues, who till the last session shared benches with them.

Of the prominent turncoats, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil (ex-Congress) and Jaidutt Kshirsagar (ex-NCP) were inducted as ministers a day before the Monsoon session started. Patil (now in BJP) has been made the minister of Housing and Kshirsagar (now in Shiv Sena) has been given the charge of employment guarantee.