New Delhi (09/07/2022): Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Saturday held a meeting with the newly-appointed Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on cabinet expansion and the formula for dividing cabinet berths between BJP and Shiv Sena, sources said.
The meeting which lasted about 40 minutes took place at the residence of Nadda in the national capital.
According to the sources, the BJP has in initial talks offered 11 ministerial posts to the Shinde faction and has suggested that 29 ministers would be from the party.
Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde faction is in favour of keeping the Home Department with the Chief Minister. However, no official information has been given on this matter yet.
This is the first visit of Shinde to the national capital as Maharashtra Chief Minister.
Shinde and Fadnavis had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday.
