Politics

A final decision is likely only after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis moves a trust vote on November 12.

Manohar Parrikar is the new Defence Minister and Suresh Prabhu will head the Railway Ministry.

"A Cabinet meeting would be held at 5:30 PM on Monday and will be followed by a meeting of the entire council of Ministers," a government source said.

In a day full of twists and turns, Desai arrived in Delhi for the oath taking ceremony but was asked to return to Mumbai by the Sena high command later.

"Wishing Advani ji a very happy birthday. May he be blessed with a long life and good health," tweeted Modi.

A source, who went to pray at the site minutes later, saw a note in Hindi saying "Bharat punah jagatguru ke pad par aasin ho".

"I have asked the party not to give me any responsibility," Chavan told reporters.

BJP said that BJD's fort was now crumbling as "termites of corruption" had hollowed it and its MPs and other leaders were being arrested for their corrupt practices.

As Section 144 has been clamped in the region, the Congress leaders are likely to be stopped

Devendra Fadnavis was on Friday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra along with nine other ministers.

"No one is above law even if one is a member of Parliament," TMC general secretary and MP Mukul Roy said.

Congress also declared Mohammad Sharief Niaz from Bhaderwah constituency, from where former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had contested assembly elections in 2008.

Chakravarty, however, said that she did not think that AIUDF President Badruddin Ajmal, who is also the chief of Assam State Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, has done such a thing.

BJP central observers Rajnath Singh and JP Nadda will be in Mumbai to meet the party's 123 legislators.

Officially, 18 out of 24 districts of the state are naxal-hit while Dumka and Pakur districts reported major Maoist incidents.

A local Trinamool Congress leader was shot at and critically injured inside Basirhat railway station premises in North 24 Parganas district.