{"id":2041,"date":"2025-05-20T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:08:15","slug":"chhagan-bhujbal-inducted-into-maharashtra-cabinet-in-fadnavis-led-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Chhagan Bhujbal Inducted into Maharashtra Cabinet in Fadnavis-Led Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a significant political development, Maharashtra Chief Minister <strong>Devendra Fadnavis<\/strong> expanded his five-month-old cabinet today with the induction of senior <strong>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)<\/strong> leader <strong>Chhagan Bhujbal<\/strong> as a minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 77-year-old political veteran was administered the oath of office by <strong>Governor C P Radhakrishnan<\/strong> at a ceremony held at <strong>Raj Bhavan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bhujbal, a key <strong>OBC face<\/strong> in Maharashtra politics, has had a long and eventful career spanning several decades. However, his name was conspicuously absent during the first cabinet expansion in <strong>December last year<\/strong>, a move that triggered <strong>public disappointment and discontent<\/strong> from the seasoned leader himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His induction into the cabinet now comes in the wake of a <strong>ministerial vacancy<\/strong> created by the resignation of <strong>Dhananjay Munde<\/strong>, another influential NCP leader. Munde stepped down as the <strong>Minister for Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Protection<\/strong> in <strong>March<\/strong>, following the arrest of his close aide <strong>Walmik Karad<\/strong> in connection with the <strong>murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bhujbal\u2019s return is seen as a strategic move by the Fadnavis-led government to consolidate OBC support and restore political balance within the NCP faction aligned with the state government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political observers view Bhujbal\u2019s induction as both a recognition of his experience and an attempt to stabilize the coalition amid ongoing internal reshuffles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant political development, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis expanded his five-month-old cabinet today with the induction of senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}