Uddhav Thackeray has got law and order along with general administration

Mumbai: The new Maharashtra government’s list of portfolios for ministers was approved today by the state’s governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. This comes after the allocation of portfolios was delayed by a month since the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress formed government in the state. While Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party was the biggest winner with most of the state’s key cabinet berths, many leaders are apparently unhappy with their portfolios.

Here is the full list of portfolios allocated in Maharashtra:

1. Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena): Chief Minister, Administration, law and order
2. Ajit Pawar (NCP): Deputy Chief Minister, Finance and planning
3. Aaditya Thackeray (Shiv Sena): Tourism and Environment
4. Ashok Chavan (Congress): Public Works Department (PWD)
5. Subhash Desai (Shiv Sena): Industries and mining and Marathi language
6. Chaggan Bhujbal (NCP): Food and civil supplies and consumer protection
7. Dilip Walse Patil (NCP): Labour and Excise
8. Anil Deshmukh (NCP): Home ministry
9. Jayant Patil (NCP): Irrigation
10. Nawab Malik (NCP): Minorities affairs
11. Balasaheb Thorat (Congress): Revenue
12. Rajendra Shingne (NCP): Medicine supplies
13. Rajesh Tope (NCP): Public health and family welfare
14. Hasaan Mushrif (NCP): Rural Development
15. Dr. Nitin Raut (Congress): Energy
16. Varsha Gaikwad (Congress): School education
17. Jitendra Awhad (NCP): Housing
18. Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena): Urban Development
19. Sunil Keda (Congress): Animal Husbandry and dairy
20. Vijay Waddetiwar (Congress): Other minorities
21. Amit Deshmukh (Congress): Medical education and cultural affairs
22. Uday Samant (Shiv Sena): Higher and technical education
23. Dadaji Bhuse (Shiv Sena): Agriculture and ex-servicemen affairs
24. Sanjay Rathod (Shiv Sena): Forest
25. Gulabrao Patil (Shiv Sena): Water supply and sanitation
26. KC Padvi (Congress): Adivasi affairs
27. Balasaheb Patil (NCP): Cooperation department
28. Sandipanrao Bhumre (Shiv Sena): Employment
29. Anil Parab (Shiv Sena): Transport dept, assembly affairs
30. Aslam Sheikh (Congress): Textile, fisheries and port development
31. Yashomati Thakur (Congress): Women and child development
32. Shankarrao Gadakh (Krantikari Shetkari Party): Water conservation and soil
33. Dhananjay Munde (NCP): Social Affairs

The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government had been facing criticism from the opposition BJP for delay in allocating portfolios despite being in power for over a month. Sources said the delay in finalisation and announcement of porfolios was mainly due to the difficulty of assigning districts to individual ministers for special care.