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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Sunday was sworn-in as the Deputy chief minister of Maharashtra as he joined the Eknath Shinde-led government. He will be sharing the post with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis.
Besides Pawar, eight more MLAs took oath to join the Maharashtra government — Chaggan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil, Hasan Mushrif,
Dhananjay Munde, Dharmobaba Atram, Aditi Tatkare, Sanjay Bansode and Anil Patil.
A meeting of NCP leaders was called at the residence of Ajit Pawar earlier today, who, later along with other party leaders, reached the Raj Bhavan to meet Governor Ramesh Bais. Pawar was then administered oath as the second deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. Chief Minster Eknath Shinde was also present at the occasion.
Pawar was said to be disgruntled after he was denied the opportunity to work as state unit chief of the Nationalist Congress Party. Earlier, he had offered to resign from the post of Leader of Opposition, seeking an organisational responsibility.
In 2019, he had joined hands with BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis and had taken an oath as the state’s deputy chief minister along with Fadnavis as the chief minister. The rebellion, however, did not last for more than three days and Ajit Pawar returned to the NCP fold.
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