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Maharashtra cabinet expansion: The much-awaited cabinet expansion of the BJP-led Maharashtra government took place on Sunday as 39 ministers were sworn-in at a ceremony in Nagpur.
Governor P C Radhakrishnan administered the oath to the new ministers.
The ceremony took place just a day before the start of winter session of the state legislature on December 16.
33 MLAs were sworn in as cabinet ministers, six took oath as ministers of state.
Bharatiya Janata Party's state unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule and Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar also took oath as ministers.
Six legislators — BJP's Meghana Bordikar, Madhuri Misal and Pankaj Bhoyar; NCP's Indranil Naik; Shiv Sena's Ashish Jaiswal and Yogesh Kadam — took oath as ministers of state.
The Fadnavis government will have four women ministers — BJP's Pankaja Munde, Madhuri Misal, Meghana Bordikar and NCP's Aditi Tatkare.
BJP got 19 ministerial berths, Shiv Sena got 11 and Nationalist Congress Party received 9 berths.
"It is a matter of joy," said Fadnavis after his new team took oath.
On December 5, Devendra Fadnavis was sworn-in as the Chief Minister with Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and NCP chief Ajit Pawar as his deputies.
1) Chandrashekhar Bawankule
2) Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
3) Chandrakant Patil
4) Girish Mahajan
5) Ganesh Naik
6) Mangal Prabhat Lodha
7) Jaykumar rawal
8) Pankaja Munde
9) Atul Save
10) Ashok Uike
11) Ashish Shelar
12) Shivendrasinh Abhaysinhraje Bhosale
13) Jaykumar Gore
14) Sanjay Savkare
15) Nitesh Rane
16) Akash Fundkar
17) Madhuri Misal (MoS)
18) Pankaj Bhoyar (MoS)
19) Meghana Bordikar (Mos)
1) Hasan Mushrif
2) Dhananjay Munde
3) Dattatray Bharne
4) Aditi Tatkare
5) Manikrao kokate
6) Narhari Zirwal
7) Makarand Jadhav-Patil
8) Babasaheb Patil
9) Indranil Naik (MoS)
1) Gulabrao Patil
2) Dada Bhuse
3) Sanjay Rathod
4) Uday Samant
5) Shambhuraj Desai
6) Sanjay Shirsat
7) Pratap Sarnaik
8) Bharat Gogawale
9) Prakash Abitkar
10) Ashish Jaiswal (MoS)
11) Yogesh Kadam (MoS)
In the November 20 assembly polls, the Mahayuti swept to power, winning 230 out of 288 seats in the state. The BJP led with 132 seats, followed by Shinde's Shiv Sena with 57 and Pawar's NCP getting 41.
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