Giving NCP Home portfolio a mistake: Chavan

July 15, 2011 16:45

Amidst questions being raised on security issues in the wake of the Mumbai blasts, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said Congress agreeing to give the key Home portfolio to NCP was a mistake.
"I think it was a mistake. We should have re-looked at it. I don't know of any other coalition government where the portfolios of Home, Finance and Planning are not with the Chief Minister," Chavan said.
"This was a division agreed to by us in 1999 when Congress-NCP first came to power in the state. That pattern as based on the model adopted by the Shiv Sena-BJP government uring 1995-99," Chavan told a TV channel.
The Chief Minister's remarks have come at a time when Hme Minister R R Patil of NCP, who had to quit after 26/11 trror attacks, has come under fire over the Mumbai blasts.

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