Prasad Lad, a prominent member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a close ally of Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, has been appointed as coordinator of a coordination committee of the three ruling alliance partners in the state.
A committee has been formed for better coordination among the Bharatiya Janata Party, (Ajit Pawar-led) Nationalist Congress Party and (Eknath Shinde-led) Shiv Sena, said Chandrashekhar Bawankule, state BJP president. Lad, who is a Member of Legislative Council (MLC), will be its coordinator, he said.
Other members are Sunil Tatkare, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse-Patil and Dhananjay Munde from the NCP, Shiv Sena's Shambhuraj Desai, Uday Samant, Dada Bhuse and Rahul Shewale. and from the BJP Bawankule himself, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Chandrakant Patil and Ashish Shelar.