Congress leader Ashok Chavan. (Photo Credit: PTI)
Mumbai:
The Congress said on late Thursday night that it had conveyed its stand about portfolio allocation to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Congress’s Ashok Chavan spoke to reporters after a meeting of leaders of the ruling coalition of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress.
The meeting on Thursday night was attended by Chavan, Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat, NCP’s Ajit Pawar and Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde and others.
The Congress, which has got 12 berths in the Uddhav Thackeray-led government, wants two additional departments relating to rural areas.
“We gave our proposal to the CM. He will take a call,” Chavan said while downplaying reports about resentment in the party over portfolio distribution.
Congress sources had said earlier that the party was upset that it did not get any of the ministries which have a bearing on rural areas, such as agriculture, rural development and cooperation.
According to the power-sharing arrangement the three parties reached, Congress has got 12 ministries, including 10 cabinet berths.
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray was sworn-in as chief minister on November 28 along with six ministers.
Earlier, NCP chief Sharad Pawar had said that portfolios would be allocated on Thursday or Friday.
