The expansion of Devendra Fadnavis-led ministry in Maharashtra will take place tomorrow. The ceremony will be held at Vidhan Bhawan at 4 o’clock in the evening and preparations for the event are in full swing. Mr Fadnavis had met BJP president Amit Shah in New Delhi yesterday and is believed to have got the nod for BJP probables in the expansion exercise. Among those in reckoning from BJP include senior legislators Girish Bapat, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Raj Purohit and Ashish Shelar, who is also city BJP chief. Presently, there are eight cabinet rank and two ministers of state in the cabinet. Meanwhile, there is no clarity yet on the number of ministers to be inducted from Shiv Sena.
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