{"id":61253,"date":"2025-05-20T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=61253"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:06:05","slug":"chhagan-bhujbal-inducted-into-maharashtra-cabinet-in-fadnavis-led-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/chhagan-bhujbal-inducted-into-maharashtra-cabinet-in-fadnavis-led-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhagan Bhujbal Inducted into Maharashtra Cabinet in Fadnavis-Led Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"204\" data-end=\"464\">In a significant political development, Maharashtra Chief Minister <strong data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"314\">Devendra Fadnavis<\/strong> expanded his five-month-old cabinet today with the induction of senior <strong data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"422\">Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)<\/strong> leader <strong data-start=\"430\" data-end=\"449\">Chhagan Bhujbal<\/strong> as a minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"607\">The 77-year-old political veteran was administered the oath of office by <strong data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"569\">Governor C P Radhakrishnan<\/strong> at a ceremony held at <strong data-start=\"592\" data-end=\"606\">Raj Bhavan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"924\">Bhujbal, a key <strong data-start=\"624\" data-end=\"636\">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 data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"826\">December last year<\/strong>, a move that triggered <strong data-start=\"850\" data-end=\"890\">public disappointment and discontent<\/strong> from the seasoned leader himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"926\" data-end=\"1313\">His induction into the cabinet now comes in the wake of a <strong data-start=\"984\" data-end=\"1007\">ministerial vacancy<\/strong> created by the resignation of <strong data-start=\"1038\" data-end=\"1057\">Dhananjay Munde<\/strong>, another influential NCP leader. Munde stepped down as the <strong data-start=\"1117\" data-end=\"1179\">Minister for Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Protection<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1192\">March<\/strong>, following the arrest of his close aide <strong data-start=\"1233\" data-end=\"1249\">Walmik Karad<\/strong> in connection with the <strong data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1312\">murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1505\">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<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1507\" data-end=\"1667\">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":1,"featured_media":61254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4601,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61253","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61255,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61253\/revisions\/61255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}