Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion ceremony in Nagpur on Sunday (December 15) saw 39 MLAs of the Mahayuti take ministerial oaths.. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Dy CMs Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar were present at the ceremony. Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan is administered the ministerial oaths. MLAs who took oath were from BJP, Shiv Sena as well as from NCP.
Full list of BJP MLAs who took ministerial oath:
Chandrashekhar Bawankule
Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil
Chandrakant Patil
Nitesh Rane
Girish Mahajan
Pankaja Munde
Mangal Prabhat Lodha
Atul Save
Ashok Uike
Ashish Shelar
Ganesh Naik
Shivendraraje Bhosle
Sanjay Savkare
Jaykumar Gore
Akash Fundkar
Madhuri Misal (MoS)
Prakash Abitkar
Meghna Bordikar (MoS)
Jaykumar Rawal
Pankaj Bhoyar (MoS)
Full list of Shiv Sena MLAs who took ministerial oaths:
Gulabrao Patil
Sanjay Rathod
Dada Bhuse
Uday Samant
Shambhuraj Desai
Bharat Gogawale
Sanjay Shirsat
Ashish Jaiswal (MoS)
Yogesh Kadam (MoS)
Pratap Sarnaik
Full list of NCP MLAs who took ministerial oath:
Hasan Mushrif
Dhananjay Munde
Dattatray Bharne
Aditi Tatkare
Narhari Zirwal
Manikrao Kokate
Makrand Jadhav-Patil
Babasaheb Patil
Indraneel Naik
Here are some of the moments from the ceremony:
BJP camp sounded upbeat even outside Maharashtra. BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said that Maharashtra was heading in the right direction under Mahayuti government.
In Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Elections 2024 conducted in the month of November, Mahayuti secured a landslide victory against Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). The Mahayuti won 230 out of 288 seats in Maharashtra assembly. BJP emerged as the lasrgest party with 132 votes. Shiv Sena (Shinde bagged 57 seats while NCP (Ajit Pawar) secured victory on 41 seats.