Maharashtra Guardian Ministers Announced: Ajit Pawar Gets Pune and Beed Districts, Dhananjay Munde Dropped

In a much-awaited announcement, the Maharashtra government assigned top ministers to supervise one or more districts as the 'Guardian Ministers'. CM Devendra Fadnavis has been given responsibility of Gadchiroli while deputy CM Eknath Shinde got Mumbai and Thane. Deputy CM Ajit Pawar will  handle Pune and Beed districts.

State Ministers Ashish Shelar and Mangal Prabhat Lodha will serve as Guardian Ministers for the Mumbai suburbs. Dhananjay Munde, the NCP leader and Food and Civil Supplies Minister, did not find a place in the list of Maharashtra Guardian Ministers. Munde is under fire over the Beed sarpanch murder case. In the previous government, he was the Guardian Minister of this central Maharashtra district.

Complete List

Gadchiroli: Devendra Fadnavis and Ashish Jaiswal (co-guardian minister)

Thane: Eknath Shinde

Mumbai city: Eknath Shinde

Pune: Ajit Pawar

Ahilya Nagar: Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil

Washim: Hasan Mushrif

Sangli: Chandrakant Patil

Nashik: Girish Mahajan

Palghar: Ganesh Naik

Jalgaon: Gulabrao Patil

Yavatmal: Sanjay Rathod

Mumbai Suburbs: Ashish Shelar, Mangal Prabhat Lodha (co-guardian minister)

Ratnagiri: Uday Samant.

Dhule: Jaykmar Raval

Jalna: Pankaja Munde

Nanded: Atul Save

Chandrapur: Ashok Uike

Satara: Shambhuraj Desai

Raigad: Atiti Tatkare

Latur: Shivendrasinh Bhosale

Nandurbar: Manikrao Kokata

Solapur: Jaikumar Gore

Hingoli: Narhari Zhirwal

Bhandara: Sanjay Savkare

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Sanjay Shirsat.

Dharashiv: Pratap Sarnaik

Buldhana: Makarand Jadhav (Patil)

Sindhudurg: Nitesh Rane

Akola: Akash Phundkar

Gondia: Babasaheb Patil

Kolhapur: Prakash Abitkar, Madhuri Misal (co-guardian minister)

Wardha: Pankaj Bhuyar

Parbhani: Meghana Sakore Bordikar

The announcement came nearly a month after the formation of the new BJP-NCP-Shiv Sena government last month.