Shiv Sena will get due share in Union cabinet expansion: CM Shinde | Mumbai News – Times of India
Mumbai: Downplaying Shiv Sena’s single ministerial berth in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, chief minister Eknath Shinde said it was token induction and whenever the Union cabinet is expanded, Shiv Sena will get its due share.
Shiv Sena was hoping to get one cabinet rank and two ministers of state with independent charge in Modi’s cabinet, but on Sunday, only Buldhana MP Prataprao Jadhav was sworn in as a minister of state.It was expected that along with Jadhav, Maval MP Shrirang Barne and Thane MP Naresh Mhaske would get cabinet berths.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena contested 15 seats in Maharashtra, of which it won seven seats, while BJP contested 28 seats and won only nine against 23 it had won in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Instead of nominating his son Shrikant, who won from the Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency, CM Shinde picked Jadhav for induction in the Union cabinet. “I will prefer to work for the expansion of the organisation,” Shrikant later told mediapersons.
A Shiv Sena spokesperson said that before the Union cabinet formation formula was discussed, the BJP leadership had explained to the party the possibility of its representation in the Union cabinet.
“We were told that we are in an era of coalition politics, as a result, we must make certain compromises. Though Shiv Sena has seven members in the Lok Sabha, we will induct only one MP in the cabinet; he will be given independent charge. We are happy with the induction of one MP, we are sure, whenever PM Narendra Modi expands the cabinet, we will be given adequate representation,” the spokesperson said.
Apart from Nitin Gadkari, Jadhav is the only MP to be included in the cabinet from Vidarbha. Since 1995, Jadhav has not lost a single election and has been a member of either the state legislature or Parliament from his home district of Buldhana. Hence his ministerial berth reward, for the unblemished electoral track record, can best be summed up as well deserved.
(Inputs from Nagpur)
Shiv Sena was hoping to get one cabinet rank and two ministers of state with independent charge in Modi’s cabinet, but on Sunday, only Buldhana MP Prataprao Jadhav was sworn in as a minister of state.It was expected that along with Jadhav, Maval MP Shrirang Barne and Thane MP Naresh Mhaske would get cabinet berths.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena contested 15 seats in Maharashtra, of which it won seven seats, while BJP contested 28 seats and won only nine against 23 it had won in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Instead of nominating his son Shrikant, who won from the Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency, CM Shinde picked Jadhav for induction in the Union cabinet. “I will prefer to work for the expansion of the organisation,” Shrikant later told mediapersons.
A Shiv Sena spokesperson said that before the Union cabinet formation formula was discussed, the BJP leadership had explained to the party the possibility of its representation in the Union cabinet.
“We were told that we are in an era of coalition politics, as a result, we must make certain compromises. Though Shiv Sena has seven members in the Lok Sabha, we will induct only one MP in the cabinet; he will be given independent charge. We are happy with the induction of one MP, we are sure, whenever PM Narendra Modi expands the cabinet, we will be given adequate representation,” the spokesperson said.
Apart from Nitin Gadkari, Jadhav is the only MP to be included in the cabinet from Vidarbha. Since 1995, Jadhav has not lost a single election and has been a member of either the state legislature or Parliament from his home district of Buldhana. Hence his ministerial berth reward, for the unblemished electoral track record, can best be summed up as well deserved.
(Inputs from Nagpur)
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