Prithviraj Chavan ministry

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Prithviraj Chavan ministry
Ministry of Maharashtra
Prithviraj Chavan - India Economic Summit 2011.jpg
Prithviraj Chavan, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Date formed11 November 2010
Date dissolved26 September 2014
People and organisations
Head of stateGovernor Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (2010-14)
Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao (2014)
Head of governmentPrithviraj Chavan
No. of ministers40
Member partiesCongress
NCP
Independents
Status in legislatureCoalition

MA

  •   INC (82)
  •   NCP (62)
  •   OTH (31)
175 / 288 (61%)
Opposition partyBharatiya Janata Party
Shiv Sena
Opposition leaderEknath Khadse (Legislative Assembly)
Pandurang Fundkar (Legislative Council) (2010-11)
Vinod Tawde (Legislative Council) (2011-14)
History
Election(s)2009
Outgoing election2014
Legislature term(s)5 years
PredecessorSecond Ashok Chavan ministry
SuccessorFirst Fadnavis ministry

Representation of cabinet ministers by party

  Indian National Congress (49%)
  Nationalist Congress Party (46%)
  Independent (5%)

Prithviraj Chavan was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on November 11, 2010.[1] The following is his cabinet. The government consisted of Chavan's Congress party and the Nationalist Congress Party.[1]

The two parties had secured a majority of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly seats in the 2009 election, and a government under Congress' Ashok Chavan (No relation to Prithviraj Chavan) was formed.[2] However, following graft allegation related to Adarsh Housing Society scam, Chavan resigned as the Chief Minister in November 2010.[3] Subsequently, Prithviraj Chavan, then a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra, and Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was chosen by the Congress to lead the Maharashtra government. He was sworn in on November 11, 2010, and subsequently, formed his only cabinet till date. The reasons cited for Chavan's appointment included his relatively corruption-free "clean image" and his lack of allegiance to any of the state's intra-party factions.[4][5][6]

Chavan made some changes in his predecessor's cabinet, by including some new ministers and reshuffling portfolios.[7] He also replaced Ashok Chavan's Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal[8] with Ajit Pawar, who has since served as deputy to two more Chief Ministers.

The Chavan ministry served until its defeat in the 2014 Legislative Assembly election by the BJP and Shiv Sena.

List of ministers[]

Prithviraj Chavan had never been a member of the state's Legislative Assembly. He had previously represented Karad in the Indian parliament's lower house from 1991 to 1999, and had been appointed to the upper house in 2002. A computer scientist by profession, Chavan had served as junior minister in the ministries of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Parliamentary Affairs and as Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office. On his appointment as the Chief Minister, Chavan was elected to the State's upper house, the Legislative Council in April 2011.[9]

Chavan appointed coalition partner NCP's Ajit Pawar as his Deputy Chief Minister.[10] Pawar has since intermittently served as Deputy Chief Minister under both the state's next two Chief Ministers - Devendra Fadnavis (2019), and Uddhav Thackeray (Since 2019).

The cabinet consisted of 40 members, 20 each from the two coalition parties.[10] The parties occasionally included independent members, utilizing their ministerial quotas.

Portfolio Minister Took office Left office Party
Chief Minister
Urban Development
Protocol
Departments or portfolios not allocated to any minister.		Prithviraj Chavan11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Deputy Chief Minister
Finance
Planning
Energy		Ajit Pawar11 November 201025 September 2012[11][12] NCP
Vacant25 September 20127 December 2012 Independent
Ajit Pawar7 December 2012[13]26 September 2014 NCP
Home AffairsR. R. Patil11 November 201026 September 2014 NCP
RevenueBalasaheb Thorat11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Agriculture
Food and Drug Administration		Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
IndustriesNarayan Rane11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Water Resources
Command Area Development		Sunil Tatkare11 November 201026 September 2014 NCP
Rural Development
Labour		Jayant Patil11 November 201026 September 2014 NCP
Public Works Department
Tourism		Chhagan Bhujbal11 November 201026 September 2014 NCP
Forests , Social Justice and Special AssistancePatangrao Kadam11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
School Education
Skill Development and Entrepreneurship		Rajendra Darda11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Women and Child DevelopmentVarsha Gaikwad11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Environment
Cultural Affairs		11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Public Health
Family Welfare		Suresh Shetty11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Textiles
Minority Development		Mohammed Arif (Naseem) Khan11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
HousingSachin Ahir11 November 201026 September 2014 INC
Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, and Dairy DevelopmentMadhukarrao Chavan11 November 20107 June 2014[14] INC
Abdul Sattar7 June 2014[14]26 September 2014 INC
TransportMadhukarrao Chavan7 June 2014[14]26 September 2014 INC
Medical Education
Horticulture		Vijaykumar Gavit11 November 201019 March 2014[15] NCP
Jitendra Awhad29 May 2014[14]26 September 2014 NCP
Water Resources (Krishna Valley Development)Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar11 November 20107 June 2013[16] NCP
Shashikant Shinde11 June 201326 September 2014 NCP
Tribal DevelopmentBabanrao Pachpute11 November 20107 June 2013[16] NCP
Madhukar Pichad11 June 201326 September 2014 NCP
Water Supply11 November 20107 June 2013[16] NCP
Dilip Gangadhar Sopal11 June 201326 September 2014 Independent

References: [7][10]

Ministers of state[]

Portfolio Minister of state Party From To Reference
Urban Development Uday Samant NCP 11 June 2013 26 September 2014 [16]
Tourism Amit Deshmukh INC 2 June 2014 26 September 2014 [14]

Ministers by Party[]

Party Cabinet Ministers Minister of State Total no.of Ministers
Indian National Congress 14 1 15
Nationalist Congress Party 13 1 14
Independent 2 - 2

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Prithviraj Chavan sworn in Maharashtra Chief Minister". NDTV. November 11, 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Second-time lucky Chavan to be Maharashtra chief minister". India Today. October 25, 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  3. ^ Meena Menon (November 9, 2010). "Chavan quits; party leaves choice of successor to Sonia". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Clean yet invisible: Prithviraj Chavan quits as CM, did anyone notice?". Firstpost. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan's rivals get key posts for Assembly polls". India Today. 16 August 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Right man in the wrong polity". Tehelka. 28 April 2012. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  7. ^ a b Dharmendra Jore and Ketaki Ghoge (November 20, 2010). "Rane in cabinet, but loses revenue". The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Bhujbal to be M'rashtra Dy CM". India Today. October 26, 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Prithviraj Chavan resigns from Rajya Sabha". The Hindustan Times. May 7, 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  10. ^ a b c Shubhangi Khapre (November 20, 2010). "Maharashtra portfolios: Ajit Pawar gets finance, Narayan Rane loses revenue". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar quits over scam allegations". The Hindu Business Line. September 25, 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  12. ^ Abhay Vaidya (September 25, 2012). "Ajit Pawar resigns: The fall of Baramati's golden boy". Firstpost. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Ajit Pawar sworn-in as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister". The Economic Times. December 7, 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  14. ^ a b c d e "Maharashtra CM Chavan allocates portfolios to three ministers". Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  15. ^ Amit Chaturvedi (March 19, 2014). "NCP minister Vijaykumar Gavit dropped from Maharashtra cabinet after daughter joins BJP". The Hindustan Times. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  16. ^ a b c d "Four NCP MLAs, Independent join Maharashtra cabinet". India Today. June 11, 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
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