Prithviraj Chavan was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 11 November 2010. The following is his cabinet. The government consisted of Chavan's Congress party and the Nationalist Congress Party.
The two parties had secured a majority of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly seats in the 2009 election, and a government under Congress' Ashok Chavan (No relation to Prithviraj Chavan) was formed. However, following graft allegation related to Adarsh Housing Society scam, Chavan resigned as the Chief Minister in November 2010. Subsequently, Prithviraj Chavan, then a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra, and Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was chosen by the Congress to lead the Maharashtra government. He was sworn in on 11 November 2010, and subsequently, formed his only cabinet till date. The reasons cited for Chavan's appointment included his relatively corruption-free "clean image" and his lack of allegiance to any of the state's intra-party factions.
Chavan made some changes in his predecessor's cabinet, by including some new ministers and reshuffling portfolios. He also replaced Ashok Chavan's Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal with Ajit Pawar, who has since served as deputy to two more Chief Ministers.
The Chavan ministry served until its defeat in the 2014 Legislative Assembly election by the BJP and Shiv Sena.
Council of Ministers Prithviraj Chavan had never been a member of the state's Legislative Assembly. He had previously represented Karad in the Indian parliament's lower house from 1991 to 1999, and had been appointed to the upper house in 2002. A computer scientist by profession, Chavan had served as junior minister in the ministries of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Parliamentary Affairs and as Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office. On his appointment as the Chief Minister, Chavan was elected to the State's upper house, the Legislative Council in April 2011.
Chavan appointed coalition partner NCP's Ajit Pawar as his Deputy Chief Minister. Pawar has since intermittently served as Deputy Chief Minister under both the state's next two Chief Ministers - Devendra Fadnavis (2019), and Uddhav Thackeray (Since 2019).
The cabinet consisted of 40 members, 20 each from the two coalition parties. The parties occasionally included independent members, utilizing their ministerial quotas.https://www.rediff.com/news/report/chavan-sworn-in-maha-cm-no-cong-min-takes-oath/20101111.htmhttps://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2010/Nov/19/chavan-expands-cabinet-29-more-inducted-204237.htmlhttps://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/maha-portfolios-patil-retains-home-chavan-keeps-urban-devp-5481.htmlhttps://ummid.com/news/2010/November/19.11.2010/portfolios_of_maha_cabinet.htmhttps://www.indiatoday.in/india/west/story/list-of-cabinet-ministers-in-maharashtra-129881-2011-03-06
Cabinet Ministers
Minister of State
Guardian Ministers
Sr No. DistrictGuardian_Minister 01. Amravati Ajit Pawar Nationalist Congress Party 02. Yavatmal Ajit Pawar 03. Pune Ajit Pawar 04. Ahmednagar Balasaheb ThoratIndian National Congress 05. Buldhana 06. Nagpur 07. Beed R. R. PatilNationalist Congress Party 08. Gadchiroli 09. Mumbai City 10. Bhandara Jitendra Awhad 11. Chandrapur 12. Kolhapur Radhakrishna Vikhe PatilIndian National Congress 13. Palghar 14. Raigad Sunil TatkareNationalist Congress Party 15.Ratnagiri 16.Akola Jayant PatilNationalist Congress Party 17. Sangli 18. Aurangabad Rajendra DardaIndian National Congress19.Hingoli 20.Dhule Shashikant ShindeIndian National Congress 21. Gondiya22. Jalgaon Vijaykumar GavitNationalist Congress Party23. Jalna Patangrao KadamIndian National Congress24.Osmanabad25. Latur Harshvardhan PatilIndian National Congress26. Mumbai SuburbanNaseem Khan (politician)Indian National Congress27. Nanded Madhukarrao ChavanNationalist Congress Party28. Nandurbar Madhukar PichadNationalist Congress Party29. NashikChhagan BhujbalNationalist Congress Party30. Parbhani Sanjay DeotaleIndian National Congress31. Satara Suresh ShettyIndian National Congress32. Solapur Dilip Gangadhar SopalNationalist Congress Party33. Thane Varsha GaikwadIndian National Congress34.WashimVarsha Gaikwad35.Wardha Sachin AhirNationalist Congress Party36.SindhudurgNarayan RaneIndian National Congress
Ministers by Party +PartyCabinet MinistersMinister of StateTotal no.of MinistersIndian National Congress14115Nationalist Congress Party13114Independent2 -2
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