Maharashtra Cabinet expansion: 39 MLA’s take oath as ministers
A total of 39 MLAs were sworn into the Maharashtra government on Sunday.
The oath-taking ceremony, held in Nagpur, saw 33 legislators inducted as Cabinet ministers and six as ministers of state.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the largest party in the coalition, secured 16 Cabinet berths, while the Shiv Sena got nine and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) managed eight.
In the ministers of state category, the BJP retained its dominance with three MLAs, followed by two from Shiv Sena and one from the NCP.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is likely to retain the all-powerful Home portfolio.
Fadnavis was sworn in as Chief Minister on December 5, with former Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and NCP leader Ajit Pawar as deputy chief ministers.