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Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Shinde himself had said that it would happen soon. (Image: News18)
Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, both currently sworn in on June 30, are the only members of the cabinet.
A Shinde camp spokesperson said on Tuesday that the much-awaited expansion of the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra cabinet is expected in the next four days.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Shinde himself had said it would happen “soon”. Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, both currently sworn in on June 30, are the only members of the cabinet.
“The Maharashtra cabinet is likely to expand in the next four days,” Deepak Kesarkar, spokesperson of Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction, told reporters. “That is what senior leaders of the alliance have told me. We need to complete the extension process so that ministers can hold briefings and face the upcoming monsoon session of the Assembly, he said.
The monsoon session of the state legislature was scheduled to begin on July 18 but was postponed after Shinde toppled the Uddhav Thackeray-led government and became the CM with the support of the BJP. The Thackeray-led Sena and the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party have been questioning the delay in cabinet expansion.
“We will soon expand our cabinet. Despite no cabinet expansion, the government is working efficiently. We have taken many such decisions which are people-oriented,” Shinde told reporters in Pune.
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