Maharashtra Announces Revised List of Guardian Ministers For 11 Districts, Ajit Pawar Gets Pune

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shine has released a revised list of guardian ministers of 11 districts of the state. According to this revised list, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has been given the post of guardian minister of Pune district.

BJP’s Chandrakant Patil has been made the guardian minister of Solapur and Amravati.

Revised list of guardian ministers of 11 districts:

Pune: Ajit Pawar

Akola: Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil

Solapur: Chandrakant Dada Patil

Amravati: Chandrakant Dada Patil

Bhandara: Vijayakumar Gavit

Buldhana: Dilip Walse Patil

Kolhapur: Hasan Mushrif

Gondia: Atram Dharmaraobaba Bhagwantrao

Beed: Dhananjay Munde]

Parbhani: Sanjay Bansode

Nandurbar: Anil Patil

Wardha – Sudhir Mungantiwar

The guardian minister reshuffle comes amid speculation over the discontent within the ruling alliance after the meeting between CM Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar on Saturday night at the CM’s official residence where they apparently could not reach on a conclusion over the issues of allotting district guardian ministership to NCP ministers.

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday reportedly remained absent from the state Cabinet meeting, for which chief minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis flew to Delhi urgently by evening after being called by the central leadership of BJP.

Ajit-led NCP and Shinde’s Shiv Sena claimed that his absence was because of his sore throat, an Indian Express report said. According to the report, Ajit Pawar did not even attend the meeting of NCP ministers at his official residence by evening citing ill-health and ongoing medical treatment.

The speculation over the discontent within the ruling alliance is rife since the meeting between Shinde, Fadnavis and Ajit on Saturday night at the CM’s official residence where they could not reach on a conclusion over the issues of allotting district guardian ministership to NCP ministers.

The issue over guardian minister post has been on since Ajit Pawar along with eight other MLAs of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra Cabinet in July this year. The eight MLAs were Chhagan Bhujbal, Hasan Mushrif, Dilip Walse Patil, Dhananjay Munde, Aditi Tatkare, Anil Bhaidas Patil, Baburao Atram and Sanjay Bansode.