The incumbent Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan led his Congress party and alliance partner NCP to an electoral majority in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He subsequently formed his second cabinet. Chavan had been the Chief Minister since 8 December 2008, and would continue to serve until 9 November 2010, when he resigned at the backdrop of corruption allegations.
The cabinet consisted of 23 ministers, including Chavan and his Deputy, Chhagan Bhujbal.
Council of Ministers The following is the list of ministers in the cabinet: Cabinet Ministers
Ministers of State
Ministers by Party
+PartyCabinet MinistersMinisters of StateTotal MinistersIndian National Congress11617Nationalist Congress Party15520
Guardian Ministers
# DistrictMinisterTenureParty 1 Ahmednagar Balasaheb Thorat 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 2 Akola Subhash Zanak 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 3 Amaravati Chhagan Bhujbal 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 NCP 4 Aurangabad Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 5 Beed Subhash Zanak 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 6 Bhandara Ranjit Kamble 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 7 Buldhana Suresh Shetty 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 8 Chandrapur Ramesh Bagwe 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 9 Dhule Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 10 Gadchiroli R. R. Patil 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 NCP 11 Gondiya Bhaskar Jadhav 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 12 Hingoli Varsha Gaikwad 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 13 Jalgaon Abdul Sattar 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 14 Jalna Gulabrao Deokar 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 NCP 15 Kolhapur Balasaheb Thorat 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 16 Latur Balasaheb Thorat 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 17 Mumbai City Jayant Patil 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 NCP 18 Mumbai Suburban Naseem Khan 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 19 Nagpur Shivajirao Moghe 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 20 Nanded Subhash Zanak 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 21 Nandurbar Vijaykumar Gavit 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 NCP22 Nashik Chhagan Bhujbal 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 23 Osmanabad Rajesh Tope 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 24 Palghar Babanrao Pachpute 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 25 Parbhani Foujiya Khan 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 26 Pune Ajit Pawar 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 27 Raigad Sunil Tatkare 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 28 Ratnagiri Sunil Tatkare 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 29 Sangli Patangrao Kadam 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 30 Satara Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 NCP 31 Sindhudurg Narayan Rane 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 32 Solapur Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 33 Thane Ganesh Naik 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 NCP 34 Wardha Narayan Rane 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 INC 35 Washim Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil 7 November 2009 10 November 2010 36 YavatmalNitin Raut 7 November 2009 10 November 2010
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