Jan 19, 2025 07:34 AM IST
Dhananjay Munde, an MLA from the Parali in Beed, served because the district’s guardian minister below the earlier authorities led by then-CM Eknath Shinde.
Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) chief and Meals and Civil Provides minister Dhananjay Munde was lacking from the checklist of guardian ministers appointed by the Maharashtra authorities on Saturday. The much-awaited checklist comes a month after the BJP-led Mahayuti coalition assumed energy within the state.
NCP chief Ajit Pawar with Dhananjay Munde (left)(Satish Bate/HT PHOTO)
Cupboard ministers in Maharashtra are given the extra duty of overseeing a number of districts.
Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde, Maharashtra deputy chief minister, could be the guardian minister of Mumbai metropolis and Thane district, thought of his stronghold.
Munde, an MLA from the Parali meeting constituency in Beed, served because the district’s guardian minister below the earlier Mahayuti authorities headed by then-chief minister Eknath Shinde.
Munde’s omission comes after the brutal homicide of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Beed district. The minister has been below criticism from the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance after his affiliate Walmik Karad was arrested in reference to the case.
One other deputy chief minister, Ajit Pawar, who heads the NCP, had refused to ask Munde to resign over the controversy. Munde, in a put up on X, congratulated Pawar and mentioned that he had requested the NCP chief to grow to be Beed’s guardian minister in view of the “changed political and social situation” within the district. With Pawar’s appointment, he added that the event of Beed will get a lift like that in Pune. Pawar will even function Pune’s guardian minister.
Apart from Munde, cupboard ministers Dadaji Bhuse, Datta Bharne, Bharat Gogawale and Ministers of State Indranil Naik and Yogesh Kadam weren’t allotted any district.
SIT on Beed sarpanch homicide
A Particular Investigation Group of Maharashtra Police has been probing Deshmukh’s homicide.
The SIT instructed a court docket on January 15 that Deshmukh was killed as was regarded as an “obstacle” in a plan to extort ₹2 crore from an vitality agency. The panel additionally mentioned that Munde’s affiliate Karad was involved along with his killers when the crime was executed.
Karad has been charged with homicide below the Maharashtra Management of Organized Crime Act. The court docket remanded him to a seven-day judicial custody.
(With PTI inputs)
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