Now that 20 state ministers, 10 each from BJP and Shiv Sena, have been sworn in, the Devendra Fadnavis cabinet is set to deliver at a much quicker pace, or so is the hope.

Over the last month, Fadnavis and his cabinet of eight ministers were each carrying the burden of multiple ministries. Meanwhile, Sena ranks were displeased sitting in opposition, and a section of BJP was unhappy with the leadership’s decision to take NCP’s support. It was these political compulsions that brought the two together again.