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Cong, NCP Reach Power Sharing Formula, Govt to Be Sworn-in Tomorrow
November 6, 2009 Visionmp.com news service
With almost a fortnight gone following declaration of Assembly elections results in Maharashtra over sharing ministerial berths, the Congress has finally agreed to a compromise formula paving the way for installation of government, which will take oath on Friday evening in Mumbai.
Reports suggest that due to disagreement between state units of the NCP and the Congress, the final agreement was reached between NCP leader and Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel in New Delhi.
The new Maharashtra cabinet will be sworn in on Saturday, chief minister-elect Ashok Chavan said on Friday, a day after the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) broke the deadlock over power sharing. Chavan and deputy chief minister-designate Chhagan Bhujbal of the NCP would call on governor S C Jamir in the evening and stake formal claim to form the new state government. "I am going to meet the governor in the evening and the swearing-in will be in Mumbai tomorrow," Chavan told reporters in New Delhi just before leaving for Mumbai.
According to the formula, NCP will get 20 ministries and give 23 to the Congress. However, it will retain the key portfolios of Home and Finance. In the last two tenures, both the parties shared equal Cabinet berths.
“We were making a point that since we have 20 more MLAs than the NCP, naturally we should have more Cabinet berths.
The NCP, on the other hand, was insisting on the older formula of parity in berth allotments. Anyway, matters have been sorted out, and the government will be sworn in tomorrow,” a senior Congress leader said.
The Congress had secured 82 and the NCP 62 MLAs in the recentlyconcluded Assembly elections.
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