Maharashtra government: Now Mahayuti ministers vie for guardian ministerships
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: After the scramble for portfolios, ministers in the Mahayuti government are in a race to grab guardian ministerships. In the earlier government, he was opposed to making women and child welfare minister Aditi Tatkare the guardian minister of this district. In Nashik, agriculture minister Manik Kokate, education minister Dada Bhuse and FDA minister Narhari Zirwal are competing for the guardian ministership. In Marathwada’s Beed district, the two Munde cousins—environment minister Pankaja Munde and food and civil supplies minister Dhananjay Munde —are vying for the post while Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar is seeing a face-off between OBC minister Atul Save and social welfare minister Sanjay Shirsat. Shambhuraj Desai said that the guardian ministers would be announced in two days after discussions between Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar.