Maharashtra Cabinet growth LIVE: Swearing-in ceremony begins; 18 queue as much as take oath

BJP chief Sudhir Mungantiwar takes oath as Cabinet minister.

Chandrakant Patil and Vijay Kumar Gavit are among the many 9 BJP leaders who’re taking oath as ministers in Maharashtra Cabinet at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.

Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administers the oath of workplace to 18 MLAs as ministers.

Oath taking ceremony begins

Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.

Listing of leaders to take oath immediately

Impartial MLA Bacchu Kadu, who helps the Shinde faction, mentioned the chief minister has given him assurance, including that he would assist him even when he doesn’t get sworn immediately.

Hopeful that I can be given some duty. I want to thank PM, HM, JP Nadda & Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis that I’ll get a possibility to serve individuals of Maharashtra. I really feel I’ll get a berth within the state cupboard: Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Mumbai BJP president.

Possible BJP MLAs anticipated to be inducted immediately: Chandrakant Patil, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Sudhir Mungantiwar. Girish Mahajan, Suresh Khade ,Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Atul Save, Ravindra Chavan and Vijay Gavit.

Possible Shinde camp MLAs anticipated to be inducted immediately: Gulabrao Patil, Dada Bhuse, Uday Samant, Shambhuraje Desai, Sandipan Bhumare, Bharat Gogawale, Sanjay Shirsat and Bacchu Kadu.

This might take the power of the Maharashtra ministry to twenty, lower than half the utmost allowed power of 43. The following spherical of growth would happen later.

Altogether 18 ministers can be sworn in, a former minister informed PTI on situation of anonymity. They’ll embody 9 every from the Shinde group and BJP, he added.

The swearing-in ceremony of recent ministers can be held at Raj Bhavan in south Mumbai at 11 am on Tuesday.

The assembly happened on the Sahyadri visitor home in south Mumbai. Shinde is backed by 40 of the 55 Shiv Sena MLAs.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday morning met Shiv Sena legislators backing him, forward of the growth of his two-member ministry.

In accordance with newest reviews, 18 MLAs can be sworn in immediately as a part of Maharashtra cupboard growth. Chandrakant Patil, Jaikumar Rawal, Ram Raje are current a t Raj Bhavan’s Darbar Corridor.

The growth of the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra cupboard is about to happen immediately in Raj Bhawan.