Days after extending the cabinet, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday announced the names of the guardian ministers for all 36 districts of the state. While his son and Minister for Environment and Tourism Aaditya Thackeray was appointed as the new guardian minister of Mumbai suburban district, Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar became the guardian minister of Pune.
Congress leader Aslam Shaikh, who is the minister for textile and fisheries of Maharashtra, is the new guardian minister of Mumbai city. Revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat, is Kolhapur’s guardian minister.
Sena leader and minister for urban development, Eknath Shinde, was given the responsibility of two districts — Thane and Gadchiroli, as guardian minister.
Here is the complete list of appointments:
1. Pune - Ajit Anantrao Pawar
2. Mumbai City - Aslam Ramzan Ali Sheikh
3. Mumbai Suburb - Aditya Uddhav Thackeray
4. Thane - Eknath Sambhaji Shinde
5. Rayagad - Aditi Sunil Tatkare
6. Ratnagiri - Anil Dattatraya Parab
7. Sindhudurg - Uday Ravindra Samant
8. Palghar - Dadaji Dagadu Bhuse
9. Nashik - Chhagan Chandrakant Bhujbal
10. Dhule - Abdul Nabi Sattar
11. Nandurbar - KC Padavi
12. Jalgaon - Gulabrao Raghunath Patil
13. Ahmednagar - Hasan Miyalal Mushrif
14. Satara - Shamrao alias Balasaheb Pandurang Patil
15. Sangli - Jayant Rajaram Patil
16. Solapur - Dilip Dattatray Walse Patil
17. Kolhapur - Vijay alias Balasaheb Bhausaheb Thorat
18. Aurangabad - Subhash Rajaram Desai
19. Jalna - Rajesh Ankushrao Tope
20. Parbhani - Nawab Mohammed Islam Malik
21. Hingoli - Varsha Eknath Gaikwad
22. Bead - Dhananjay Panditrao Munde
23. Nanded - Ashok Shankarrao Chavan
24. Osmanabad - Shankarrao Yashwantrao Gadakh
25. Latur - Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh
26. Amravati - Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur (Sonawane)
27. Akola - Omprakash Babarao Kadu alias Bachchu Kadu
28. Washim - Shambhuraj Shivajirao Desai
29. Buldhana - Dr Rajendra Bhaskararao Shingne
30. Yavatmala - Sanjay Dulichand Rathod
31. Nagpur - Dr Nitin Kashinath Raut
32. Wardha - Sunil Chhatrapal Kedar
33. Bhandara - Satej alias Bunty D Patil
34. Gondia - Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh
35. Chandrapur - Vijay Namdevrao Wadettivar
36. Gadchiroli - Eknath Sambhaji Shinde
