Pune:

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday stated girls gets suitable illustration within the state cupboard.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expanded his two-member ministry via inducting 18 ministers, 9 each and every from his rise up Shiv Sena team and the BJP.

The record does not come with girls, a transfer being criticised via politicians and ladies’s rights activists.

“The objection that there’s no lady minister within the newly shaped cupboard will likely be addressed quickly. Women gets suitable illustration in our cupboard,” Fadnavis stated in Pune at the sidelines of a programme.

He stated the former Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive, comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, additionally had 5 ministers to start with and there was once no lady within the cupboard, so they don’t have any proper to remark now.

In an obvious assault at the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, Fadnavis stated, “The birthday party whose two former ministers are in prison on fees of corruption has no ethical proper to position out the record (of our ministers).” The NCP put names of ministers who took oath on Tuesday on social media, highlighting their alleged corruption.

Former NCP ministers Anil Deshmukh and Nawab Malik are these days in prison after being arrested via the Enforcement Directorate in numerous cash laundering circumstances.

Asked in regards to the induction of Sanjay Rathod within the new cupboard, Fadnavis stated Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has already clarified the stand on it and there’s no want to remark.

Rathod, who was once the wooded area minister within the earlier MVA executive, was once pressured to surrender final yr after BJP leaders blamed him for a lady’s suicide. PTI SPK GK GK