Maha: Ajit Pawar gets finance, other NCP ministers get cooperation, agriculture portfolios
Mumbai, Jul 14 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was on Friday allocated the key Finance and Planning portfolio while some of the eight other NCP leaders who joined the state cabinet with him a fortnight ago were also given important portfolios like cooperation and agriculture.
Ajit Pawar getting the finance portfolio is significant as there was stiff opposition to it from Shiv Sena MLAs led by Bharat Gogawale and Prahar party legislator Bachchu Kadu, who claimed that the NCP leader had blocked funds for them when he was finance minister in the MVA government and was responsible for their rebellion against Uddhav Thackeray's leadership.
In Friday's portfolio allocation, the Nationalist Congress Party's Dilip Walse Patil bagged the cooperation ministry, earlier held by the BJP's Atul Save. NCP's Dhananjay Munde got the agriculture portfolio, earlier handled by the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena's Abdul Sattar.
