Dy CM for NCP, Cong gets speaker's post: Reports

November 27, 2019 18:42

Apart from the chief minister's portfolio, the Shiv Sena will have 15 ministers in the new Maharashtra Cabinet while the Nationalist Congress Party will have a deputy chief minister and 13 other ministers, sources said on Wednesday. The Congress will get the assembly speaker's post and 13 ministers.

"Apart from chief minister, Shiv Sena to have 15 ministers, NCP to have deputy chief minister and 13 other ministers. Congress to have assembly speaker and 13 ministers," sources told ANI.

This comes amid the ongoing talks of the Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena to give shape to the new government to be formed under Uddhav Thackeray.

Earlier in the day, Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat said the sharing of portfolios among the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress in the next state government will be finalised in a couple of days.

After the BJP-led government collapsed on Tuesday, Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress along with some small allies and Independents chose Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray as the chief minister of Maharashtra. He is scheduled take oath on Thursday at Shivaji Park at 6.40 pm.

The oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected MLAs was conducted in a special session of the Maharashtra assembly on Wednesday after days of political uncertainty in the state.

They were administered oath by newly appointed pro-tem speaker Kalidas Kolambkar.

Today's session comes a day after BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis resigned as Maharashtra chief minister merely three days after he took oath in a controversial turn of events.

Yesterday evening, the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and staked claim to form the government, following which the governor announced that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will take oath as the chief minister of the state.

-- ANI

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