No Congress MP from Maharashtra has found a place in the revamped Council of Ministers. Names of senior State Congress leaders Gurudas Kamat and Vilas Muttemwar were doing the rounds for possible induction into the Council of Ministers, but the only new face from Maharashtra was NCP leader Tariq Anwar, a Rajya Sabha member from the State.

Anwar has been made Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries. It was expected that the Congress leadership would induct someone from the state to fill the vacancy caused by the demise of senior party leader Vilasrao Deshmukh in August. However, the portfolio held by Deshmukh at the time of his death, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, has been given to S Jaipal Reddy.

Congress leader from Vidarbha Mukul Wasnik, who held the portfolio of Social Justice, resigned yesterday. Maharashtra has seven representatives in the Council of Ministers, including those of Sharad Pawar-led NCP, the Congress ally at the Centre and in the state.