W Maharashtra walks with major share of ministry
Mumbai | Saturday, Nov 7 2009 IST
 

Western Maharashtra, the sugar belt of the state, was the largest gainer by walking away with 12 berths in the newly formed Maharashtra cabinet. Of these 12 ministers, seven were from NCP.

The Marathwada got the Chief Minister's post for the second time. Marathwada region is holding the CM's post since 1999, barring the gap of over one year when Sushilkumar Shinde was the Chief Minister. The region has seven ministers, three from the Congress and four from the NCP. The Vidarbha region got seven ministry of which two has gone in favour of NCP and remaining to Congress.

However, all important Mumbai city got four berths and the both the Congress and NCP shared two ministries each. The adjoining Konkan region got 4 ministers out of which three were from NCP one from congress. The North Maharashtra also got four ministries, including the Deputy Chief Cinister Chhagan Bhujbal. The NCP got three ministers while the Congress got one minister from the region.

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