MAHARASHTRA Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday effected the first expansion of his ministry with 33 Cabinet ministers and six ministers of state. Governor C P Radhakrishnan administered the oath to all 39 ministers, many of them fresh faces, at the Raj Bhavan in Nagpur on the eve of Maharashtra state assembly's winter session.
Among the newly sworn-in ministers, 19 are from the BJP (16 cabinet berths and 3 MoS); 11 from the Shiv Sena (9 cabinet and 2 MoS); and 9 from NCP (8 cabinet ministers and 1 MoS).
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