MUMBAI: Maharashtra ’s long pending cabinet expansion happened on Monday with 25 cabinet Ministers and Ten Ministers of state sworn in. Among the 25 cabinet Ministers sworn in the Uddhav Thackeray cabinet were AJit Pawar of the NCP and Aaditya Thackeray son of Uddhav. Even as Padavi began his Thank you speech, Koshyari began shouting at Padavi to stop, however Padavi kept on giving his thank you speech. Koshyari then told Padavi that he would not allow such a swearing in to happen as it was not as per norms. A few Sena MLA’s from Western Vidarbha have also skipped the swearing in upset at not being ministerial berths.

Source: Economic Times December 30, 2019 07:07 UTC