Less than a week after the expansion of the new Maharashtra cabinet, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday announced the portfolios for the 18 ministers inducted in the first phase.
While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ministers (particularly Mr. Fadnavis) largely kept the portfolios that were held by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi government (of the Shiv Sena, the NCP and Congress), the Sena faction led by Mr. Shinde kept those that were held by the Shiv Sena and the Congress in the previous regime.
The allocation was announced after the list was approved by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.