Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has deffered its decision to expand the state Cabinet. The Cabinet expansion to include three Congress leaders was scheduled to take place this evening.
With Assembly elections slated for later this year, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan had decided to expand his ministry after the Congress faced a rout in the Lok Sabha elections.
According to sources in the Congress-NCP government, Chavan is likely to fill in three unoccupied ministerial slots of the Congress quota, including that of a Cabinet minister and two Ministers of State.
There have been murmurs of dissent in Congress for a long time over these posts being kept vacant by Chavan.
Congress legislators Amit Deshmukh, son of former Chief Minister late Vilasrao Deshmukh, Kalyan Kale and Rohidas Patil are among the probables from Congress.
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