BJP and Shinde camp have reached a consensus on the cabinet expansion whereby BJP will play a big brother role by getting 28 ministerial berths while 15 to Shinde camp. Of the 28 BJP ministers, 20 are expected to be cabinet ministers including deputy chief minister and 8 ministers of state.
Barely a week after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were sworn in, the new government has sanctioned as much as Rs 1,500 crore, not only to the 165 legislators from the Shinde camp and the BJP, Independents and smaller parties, for urban development projects
The plea will be heard at 5 pm on Thursday by a vacation bench of justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala. The bench remarked, “We will keep at 5pm. Please make sure that paper books are supplied by 3pm to parties concerned.”