Cabinet expansion next week: Maha CM

While announcing that his cabinet will be expanded next week, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said that the doors were still open for talks with estranged ally Shiv Sena. The winter Session of the Maharashtra legislature will start on 8 December.

‘The state cabinet, which was sworn in with eight cabinet-rank ministers and two ministers of state on 31 October, will be expanded next week,’ Fadanvis told reporters at his official residence.

The chief minister denied media reports that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat may mediate between Shiv Sena and BJP to break the deadlock in talks. The RSS chief had nothing to do with the talks with Sena, Fadnavis said. However, he also said, ‘The doors for talks with Sena are not closed. In politics such a thing never happens. Talks are possible.’