The new Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis-led administration may have a cabinet expansion on the 5th of August.
If reports are believed, the new Shinde-led administration will have 15 ministers taking oath as cabinet ministers, including 8 MLAs from the BJP and 7 MLAs from Shinde’s faction of the Shiv Sena.
This expansion may take place in 2 or 3 rounds.
This comes more than a month after the 40 rebel MLAs of Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde defected to the BJP which led to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
Sources in Delhi state that new faces in the BJP will get a chance to be ministers in the cabinet.
Here are the names of potential ministers from the BJP
- Chandrakant Patil
- Sudhir Mungantiwar
- Girish Mahajan
- Praveen Darekar
- Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
- Ganesh Naik
- Ravindra Chavan
Possible ministers from the Shinde faction of Shiv Sena
- Dada Bhuse
- Uday Samant
- Gulabrao Patil
- Shambhu Raje Desai
- Sandipan Bhumre
- Sanjay Shirsath
- Abdul Sattar
Bacchu Kadu, an independent candidate could be made a minister.
Shinde and Fadnavis took oath as the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively 35 days back. They have been the only two members of the government and the cabinet.