Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has officially awarded the Disaster Management and Relief and Rehabilitation departments to Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar, who had been sulking ever since the portflios have been announced.
The Disaster Management and Relief and Rehabilitation departments – cabinet portfolios – were earlier with Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Rathod. However, Rathod has been given new departments including Forest and Earthquake Rehabilitation.
These changes come after Vijay Wadettiwar expressed his disappointment over getting “less important” portfolios. The portfolios to cabinet ministers in the new Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government were allocated on January 5.
The senior Congress leader remained absent from the first cabinet meeting and did not take charge of the portfolios including Other Backward Classes, Social and Economically Backward Classes, VJNT and Earthquake Rehabilitation.
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However, Wadettiwar took charge of his cabinet portfolio on January 10 only after he was assured that the Relief and Rehabilitation ministry would be given to him.
The changes in the cabinet portfolio came into effect after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari approved the same.
Wadettiwar was disappointed after he was granted a “less important” cabinet portfolio. The senior Congress leader was Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Maharashtra legislative assembly during the previous Devendra Fadnavis-led government in the state.
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After the Maharashtra assembly election results, Shiv Sena ditched its old-time ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form an alternative government with Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
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