Maharashtra portfolios: Ajit Pawar bags Finance, Aaditya gets environment; check complete list

The Maharashtra Governor on Sunday morning cleared the air over awaited portfolios of Maharashtra cabinet. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari approved the list of portfolios to be given to the ministers of the new government.

“Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has approved the allocation of portfolios as proposed by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray,” the Governor’s office tweeted this morning.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray would handle Law and Order apart from the General Administration department. State’s deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar bagged the coveted Finance Ministry while NCP leader Anil Deshmukh was handed the Home Ministry.

First-time MLA and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s son Aaditya, who had widely vouched for a ban on single-use plastic and campaigns on climate change issues, will take charge of the Environment Ministry. The NCP camp, which has 14 ministers, has bagged most of the plum portfolios.

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Here is the full list of portfolios allocated in Maharashtra:

1. Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena): Chief Minister, Administration, law and order
2. Ajit Pawar (NCP): Deputy Chief Minister, Finance and planning
3. Aaditya Thackeray (Shiv Sena): Tourism and Environment
4. Ashok Chavan (Congress): Public Works Department (PWD)
5. Subhash Desai (Shiv Sena): Industries and mining and Marathi language
6. Chaggan Bhujbal (NCP): Food and civil supplies and consumer protection
7. Dilip Walse Patil (NCP): Labour and Excise
8. Anil Deshmukh (NCP): Home ministry
9. Jayant Patil (NCP): Irrigation
10. Nawab Malik (NCP): Minorities affairs
11. Balasaheb Thorat (Congress): Revenue
12. Rajendra Shingne (NCP): Medicine supplies
13. Rajesh Tope (NCP): Public health and family welfare
14. Hasaan Mushrif (NCP): Rural Development
15. Dr. Nitin Raut (Congress): Energy
16. Varsha Gaikwad (Congress): School education
17. Jitendra Awhad (NCP): Housing
18. Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena): Urban Development
19. Sunil Keda (Congress): Animal Husbandry and dairy
20. Vijay Waddetiwar (Congress): Other minorities
21. Amit Deshmukh (Congress): Medical education and cultural affairs
22. Uday Samant (Shiv Sena): Higher and technical education
23. Dadaji Bhuse (Shiv Sena): Agriculture and ex-servicemen affairs
24. Sanjay Rathod (Shiv Sena): Forest
25. Gulabrao Patil (Shiv Sena): Water supply and sanitation
26. KC Padvi (Congress): Adivasi affairs
27. Balasaheb Patil (NCP): Cooperation department
28. Sandipanrao Bhumre (Shiv Sena): Employment
29. Anil Parab (Shiv Sena): Transport dept, assembly affairs
30. Aslam Sheikh (Congress): Textile, fisheries and port development
31. Yashomati Thakur (Congress): Women and child development
32. Shankarrao Gadakh (Krantikari Shetkari Party): Water conservation and soil
33. Dhananjay Munde (NCP): Social Affairs

The portfolio allocation comes five days after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray expanded his Cabinet by inducting 36 ministers, taking his ministerial team to 43 —33 Cabinet and 10 state. With 44 MLAs, the Congress has got 12 ministerial berths, while Sena, with 56 MLAs, has 15 and NCP, with 54 MLAs, has 16.