Ministers yet to get portfolios even as Maha Assembly session ends
The Statesman Siliguri|December 22, 2024
A month after the BJP-led Mahayuti came to power, the tug of war over portfolios is still on
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The six-day winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly, which ended on Saturday, has gone down in the annals of India's and Maharashtra's political history as unprecedented as not a single BJP-dominated Mahayuti minister's portfolio was announced even as the session ended.

Despite a month after the BJP-led Mahayuti came to power in Maharashtra after a landslide victory declared on 23 November, sources said that the internal tug-of-war and slugfest over the ministerial portfolio pie is still on.

The Opposition was quick to criticise the non-allocation of ministerial portfolios. Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said: "With such a magnificent victory, one would have expected rejoicing, but what has come to the fore is discontent and differences within the Mahayuti".

This story is from the December 22, 2024 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.

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