Some MLAs in Shinde camp contacting us: Aaditya

August 18, 2022 01:15

Aaditya Thackeray

Disgruntled MLAs from Eknath Shinde's faction are in touch with the Uddhav Thackeray group after the recent expansion of the Cabinet in Maharashtra, said former minister Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday.

"Some MLAs are trapped in the Eknath Shinde faction are now contacting us after the Cabinet expansion. Our doors are open for all who want to join us back," Aaditya Thackeray said.

Aaditya Thackeray also gave a challenge to turncoats to tender their resignations and fight elections again.

"All who want to stay there, tender your resignation and face us in elections," he added.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde last week expanded his Cabinet, inducting nine MLAs each of the rebel Shiv Sena camp and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is supporting his government.

The Cabinet expansion comes over 40 days after Chief Minister Shinde and deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were sworn in after a rebellion led by the former toppled the Udhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state.

After recent political turbulence and with 18 ministers taking oath recently in Maharashtra, the western state's Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday announced the allocation of portfolios to newly-appointed ministers in the state Cabinet with deputy Chief Minister Fadnavis bagging major roles and ministries.

Shinde will look after general administration, urban development, information and public relations, public works department and several other major portfolios not allocated to other ministers.

Fadnavis will hold the portfolios of home, finance and planning, law and justice, water resources and command area development, housing, energy, and protocol.

Senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil was allotted higher and technical education, textile industry and parliamentary work while Ravindra Chavhan was assigned ministry of public works (excluding public enterprises), food and civil supplies and consumer protection. -- ANI

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