Ajit Pawar is Maharashtra Dy CM, Aaditya Thackeray is cabinet minister

NCP's Ajit Pawar took oath as the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister on Monday, a month after he had taken oath as the Deputy Chief Minister of BJP's Devendra Fadnavis. Another much-awaited entrant into the Maharashtra cabinet is Chief Minister's Uddhav Thackeray's 29-year-old son Aaditya Thackeray. Along with him, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan took oath as a Cabinet minister. In total, 36 ministers - 26 as cabinet ministers and 10 as junior ministers, took oath today. There are three women in the expanded Council of Ministers - Varsha Gaikwad and Yashomati Thakur from Congress and Aditi Tatkare from NCP.