Aaditya Thackeray appointed as guardian minister for Mumbai suburban, Ajit Pawar for Pune

Mumbai: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has announced the names of the guardian ministers for all 36 districts of Maharashtra on Wednesday. Shiv Sena leader and Minister for Environment and Tourism Aaditya Thackeray became the new guardian minister of Mumbai suburban district, while Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was appointed as the guardian minister of Pune.

Congress’ Aslam Shaikh, who is the minister for textile and fisheries in the Uddhav Thackeray cabinet, is the new guardian minister of Mumbai city. Other Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat, who is revenue minister, is Kolapur’s guardian minister, while NCP’s Hasan Mushrif is Ahmednagar’s guardian minister.

Notably, Sena leader and minister for urban development, Eknath Shinde, is the only minister to be given the responsibility of two districts — Thane and Gadchiroli, as guardian minister. 

The detail list is given below:

1. Pune  - Ajit Anantrao Pawar
2. Mumbai City - Aslam Ramzan Ali Sheikh
3. Mumbai Suburb - Aditya Uddhav Thackeray
4. Thane - Eknath Sambhaji Shinde
5. Rayagad - Aditi Sunil Tatkare
6. Ratnagiri - Anil Dattatraya Parab
7. Sindhudurg - Uday Ravindra Samant
8. Palghar - Dadaji Dagadu Bhuse
9. Nashik - Chhagan Chandrakant Bhujbal
10. Dhule - Abdul Nabi Sattar
11. Nandurbar - KC Padavi
12. Jalgaon - Gulabrao Raghunath Patil
13. Ahmednagar - Hasan Miyalal Mushrif
14. Satara - Shamrao alias Balasaheb Pandurang Patil
15. Sangli - Jayant Rajaram Patil
16. Solapur - Dilip Dattatray Walse Patil
17. Kolhapur - Vijay alias Balasaheb Bhausaheb Thorat
18. Aurangabad - Subhash Rajaram Desai
19. Jalna - Rajesh Ankushrao Tope
20. Parbhani - Nawab Mohammed Islam Malik
21. Hingoli - Varsha Eknath Gaikwad
22. Bead - Dhananjay Panditrao Munde
23. Nanded - Ashok Shankarrao Chavan
24. Osmanabad - Shankarrao Yashwantrao Gadakh
25. Latur - Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh
26. Amravati - Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur (Sonawane)
27. Akola - Omprakash Babarao Kadu alias Bachchu Kadu
28. Washim - Shambhuraj Shivajirao Desai
29. Buldhana - Dr Rajendra Bhaskararao Shingne
30. Yavatmala - Sanjay Dulichand Rathod
31. Nagpur - Dr Nitin Kashinath Raut
32. Wardha - Sunil Chhatrapal Kedar
33. Bhandara - Satej alias Bunty D Patil
34. Gondia - Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh
35. Chandrapur - Vijay Namdevrao Wadettivar
36. Gadchiroli - Eknath Sambhaji Shinde