The ruling BJP walked away with several crucial portfolios like Home, Finance, Housing, Revenue and Rural Development in the Ministry allocations made belatedly by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday in Maharashtra.
While Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) has been vested with plum portfolios like Home, Finance & Planning, Law & Justice, Water Resources, Energy, Housing and Protocol, Chief Minister Shinde will handle the traditional portfolios of Urban Development, GAD, IT, PWD (Public Projects), Transport and other departments.
In the portfolio allocations made by the Chief Minister five days after he expanded his Cabinet on August 9 through the induction of 18 new Ministers, BJP Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil was allocated Revenue, Dairy Development and Animal Husbandry, while Sudhir Mungantiwar was given Forests, Cultural Affairs and Fisheries. Chandrakant Patil was handed Higher & Technical Education, Textiles and Parliamentary Affairs portfolio. Dr Vijaykumar Gavit was allocated Tribal Development, while Girish Mahajan was given Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Medical Education, Sports & Youth Welfare. Mangal Prabhat Lodha was allocated Tourism, Skill Development & Entre-preneurship, Women & Child Development.Ravindra Chavan was given Public Works (excluding Public Enterprises), Food & Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, while Atul Save got Cooperation, Other Backward & Bahujan Welfare. Suresh Khade was allocated the Labour department.