Maharashtra Politics News: Cabinet expansion may happen within a week

While NCP's Ajit Pawar and eight of his MLAs were inducted in the Shinde-Fadnavis government in the state, a question mark remained unanswered as to when the Shiv Sena and BJP MLAs would be inducted into the cabinet. Giving relief to the BJP-Shiv Sena MLAs, CM Eknath Shinde said on Tuesday that the cabinet would be expanded within a week.

Shinde, however, sidestepped a question on which party would get how many seats in the cabinet, saying none of the MLAs were disgruntled and even asked reporters if anyone had called him. Asked whether he felt there would be a split within the Congress as well, Shinde said all the vacancies were already filled.

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Ajit Pawar has more power

We have tried to clear the backlog of 2.5 years of development in the last one year. Now we have more power in the form of Ajit Pawar. He has come out in support of development. Shinde said, we are moving forward with the thoughts of Balasaheb Thackeray and now Ajit Pawar has also joined us.

Ramdas Athawale supports Ajit Pawar
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has stated that the real NCP in Maharashtra is Ajit Pawar's and he will be given a clock as an election symbol due to the support of two-thirds of the MLAs in the party.