Maharashtra Elections: Maharashtra government announces 21 appointments

Ahead of Maharashtra elections next year, there were appointments made for various corporation boards and authorities on Friday. This appointment has been done to keep in mind that there shall be a balance maintained between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena leaders.

Narendra Patil, who can join BJP, has been appointed as the President of Annasaheb Patil Financial Development Corporation. While Shiv Sena MLA Uday Samant from Ratnagiri has been appointed as Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) President.

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Maharashtra Government announced 21 appointments of various development corporations, boards, and authorities. It consists of 10 corporations, six boards, two authorities, and one commission post.

The appointments are as follows:

• Haji Arifat Shaikh

  President of Maharashtra State Minority Commission

• Jagannath Motiram Abhyankar

  Vice President, Maharashtra State Minorities Commission

• Balasaheb Dnyaneshwar Patil

  Chairman, Konkan Housing and Area Development Board

• Haji S. Haider Azam

  President, Maulana Azad Minority Financial Development Corporation

  Sadashiv Dadasaheb Khade

  Chairman, Pimpri Chinchwad Navnagar Development Authority

• Narendra Annasaheb Patil

  President, Annasaheb Patil Financial Development Corporation

• Sanjay aka Sanjoy Maruti Rao Pawar

  Vice President, Annasaheb Patil Financial Development Corporation

• Ashish Jaiswal

  Chairman, Maharashtra State Mining Corporation

• Prakash Nakul Patil

  President, Maharashtra State Handloom Corporation

• Nitin Sampatrao Baagude-Patil

  Vice President, Maharashtra Krishna Khore Development Corporation

• Jagdish Bhagwan Dhodi

  Vice President, Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation

• Uday Samant

  President, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority

• Jyoti Deepak Thackeray

  President, Women's Development Development Board

• Vinod Ghosalkar

  Chairman, Mumbai Building Repair and Reconstruction Board

• Vijay Nahata

  Chairman, Mumbai Slum Improvement Board

• Raghunath Babanrao Kuchik

  President, Maharashtra State Minimum Wage Advisory Board

• Madhu Chavan

  Chairman, Mumbai Housing and Area Development Board

• Sandeep Joshi

  Chairman, Maharashtra State Small Industries Development Corporation

• Prashant Thakur

  Chairman, City and Industrial Development Corporation

• Md. Tariq Qureshi

  Chairman, Nagpur Housing and Area Development Board

• Raja aka Sudhakar Tukaram Sarwade

  President, Mahatma Phule Backward Community Development Corporation