Maharashtra Cabinet Ministers List 2019: Ajit Pawar sworn in as Dy CM; 25 Cabinet ranks, 10 MoS berths allotted

Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, along with 25 cabinet ministers and 10 Ministers of State on Monday in the presence of Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari. Of the 25 cabinet berths, eight have been allotted to the Congress, nine to the NCP, seven to the Shiv Sena and one to Independent MLA Shankarrao Gadakh. Ashok Chavan, Dilip Walse Patil, Dhanajay Munde, Nawab Malik, Amit Deshmukh, Balasaheb Patil and Aaditya Thackeray are among those sworn in as Cabinet ministers.

Meanwhile, ten MLAs were sworn in as Ministers of State — four from NCP, three from Shiv Sena, two from Congress and one Independent legislator Bachchu Kadu. The oath-taking ceremony and expansion of Shiv Sena president and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s cabinet comes over a month after the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress decided to join hands to form a coalition government in Maharashtra, bringing to an end an imbroglio that started with the declaration of poll results on 24 October. Here is a list of the ministers sworn in today:

Deputy CM	Ajit Pawar	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Ashok Chavan	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Dilip Walse Patil	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Dhanajay Munde	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Vijay Wadettiwar	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Anil Deshmukh	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Hasan Mushrif	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Varsha Gaikwad	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Rajendra Shingane	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Nawab Malik	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Rajesh Tope	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Sunil Kedar	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Sanjay Rathod	Shiv Sena
Cabinet Minister	Gulabrao Patil	Shiv Sena
Cabinet Minister	Amit Deshmukh	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Dada Bhuse	Shiv Sena
Cabinet Minister	Jitendra Awhad	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Sandipan Bhumre	Shiv Sena
Cabinet Minister	Balasaheb Patil	NCP
Cabinet Minister	Yashomati Thakur	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Anil Parab	Shiv Sena
Cabinet Minister	Uday Samant	Shiv Sena
Cabinet Minister	KC Padvi	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Shankarrao Gadakh	Independent
Cabinet Minister	Aslam Shaikh	Congress
Cabinet Minister	Aaditya Thackeray	Shiv Sena
Minister of State	Abdul Sattar	Shiv Sena
Minister of State	Bunty Patil	Congress
Minister of State	Shambhuraje Desai	Shiv Sena
Minister of State	Bachchu Kadu	Independent
Minister of State	Vishwajit Kadam	Congress
Minister of State	Dattatray Bharne	NCP
Minister of State	Aditi Tatkare	NCP
Minister of State	Sanjay Bansode	NCP
Minister of State	Prajakt Tanpure	NCP
Minister of State	Rajendra Patil Yedravkar	Shiv Sena

According to the power-sharing formula agreed on by the three parties, the Shiv Sena would have 16 ministers (apart from chief minister), NCP 14 and the Congress 12. Uddhav was sworn in as chief minister on 28 November, along with Balasaheb Thorat and Nitin Raut of the Congress, Eknath Shinde and Subhash Desai of the Shiv Sena and Jayant Patil and Chhagan Bhujbal of the NCP. The Congress has also got the Speaker’s post, held by Sakoli MLA Nana Patole, who was elected unanimously on 1 December.

The BJP and Sena, which fought the Assembly polls as allies, had secured a majority by winning 105 and 56 seats respectively in the 288-member Assembly. However, Sena broke the three-decade-long alliance with the BJP after the latter rejected the former’s demand to share the chief minister’s post. Ajit Pawar had attempted a coup within the NCP by joining hands with the BJP and taking oath as the deputy of Devendra Fadnavis last month, but the government had only lasted 80 hours. He quit shortly before a Maharashtra Assembly floor test ordered by the Supreme Court. Maharashtra can have a maximum of 43 ministers. The size of council of ministers cannot exceed 15 percent of the total number of MLAs in the state, which is 288.