Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis Says Newly Appointed Ministers To Be Given Portfolios Soon
Mumbai, 13th August 2022: On Saturday, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that newly appointed ministers in the state would be given their portfolios soon. He also assured that the government would soon compensate the farmers of the state for the damage caused to the crops due to heavy rains. He said this while talking to reporters at Nagpur airport.
Fadnavis also congratulated Chandrashekhar Bawankule on being appointed as the BJP’s Maharashtra unit president.
He said, “The new ministers will be given the charge soon.”
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expanded his two-member cabinet. He inducted 18 ministers into his cabinet 41 days after taking oath as the chief minister. Among the new ministers, nine are from the rebel Shiv Sena faction and nine from the BJP.
At the same time, the members who took oath as ministers from the Shinde faction include Gulabrao Patil, Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Rathod, Sandeep Bhumre, Uday Samant, Tanaji Sawant, Abdul Sattar, Deepak Kesarkar and Shambhuraj Desai.
The BJP has included Lodha from Mumbai while the Shinde faction did not induct any MLA from there in the cabinet.
The elections to the Mumbai Municipal Corporation are to be held this year.
