The new Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, has retained Home and Urban Development portfolios.
Eknathrao Khadse has been given Revenue, Minorities Development and Wakf, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries and Excise. Sudhir Mungantiwar will be Minister of Finance and Forests. BJP’s only Maratha face, Vinod Tawade, got Education, among others.
Pankaja Munde, daughter of deceased veteran BJP leader Gopinath Munde, has been given the portfolios of Women and Child Development, and Rural Development and Water Conservation. Vidya Thakur has been made the Minister of State for these two Ministries.
