(NDTV)
Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar and Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray will take oath as part of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s expanded cabinet today, sources said. The ceremony will be held at the Vidhan Sabha at 1 pm. Around 35 legislators – 10 of them from the Congress — will become part of the ministry, which already has six members besides the Chief Minister. This will be the second time in two months that Ajit Pawar will be taking oath as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. In November, he broke ranks from his party to ally with the BJP and took oath as the deputy of Devendra Fadnavis in a surprise ceremony. But he quit soon after, hours before a Supreme Court-ordered floor test, ending the BJP’s 80-hour bid to seize power.
