The much-awaited expansion of the Maharashtra Cabinet will take place on December 30, reports said. The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress in Maharashtra currently has six ministers - two each from three coalition partners - besides Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. There will be 12 Ministers from Congress out of which 10 are of cabinet rank," Maharashtra minister and Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat said. There are currently six ministers - Jayant Patil and Chhagan Bhujbal of NCP, Balasaheb Thorat and Nitin Raut of Congress, Eknath Shinde and Subhash Desai of Shiv Sena - in the Maharashtra cabinet. According to a PTI report, Congress is unhappy about portfolio allocation and may ask for some plum portfolios.

Source: dna December 29, 2019 12:56 UTC