Finance Minister Ajit Pawar's bullying continues in the Mahayuti government as well. Due to this, the ministers of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, who are part of the Mahayuti government led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, are very angry. Shinde's Shiv Sena ministers openly expressed their displeasure in front of Shinde on Tuesday.
After the cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of CM Fadnavis at Sahyadri Guest House on Tuesday, the ministers of Shinde faction held a separate meeting with Deputy CM Shinde for two hours. During this, they complained about Finance Minister Ajit Pawar. Shinde's ministers said that Ajit is not giving them funds, due to which they are facing problems in doing public welfare work in their department and constituency.
Almost all the ministers complained to Shinde
The displeasure of Shinde's ministers towards Deputy CM and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar in the Mahayuti government was revealed on Tuesday. After the cabinet meeting, Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde held a separate meeting with the ministers of his party.
During this, he reviewed the development works going on in the departments and constituencies of his ministers one by one and Shinde advised them to focus on public welfare works on priority basis, complete the work as soon as possible, not keep files pending and reach out to the common people.
But sources claim that almost all the ministers made the same complaint to Shinde. The ministers said that Ajit is trying to create obstacles in the development work of their area and department. He is not giving them enough funds for the work.
BJP MLAs had complained to Shah
Ajit Pawar has always been known for his bullying in Maharashtra politics. BJP MLAs had recently complained against Ajit to Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Shah had reminded the BJP MLAs that BJP is the largest party in the Mahayuti. Therefore, Shah had said that you should not complain about Ajit but Ajit should come to me to complain about you, do such work.
\There was a historic rebellion in Shiv Sena during the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray. During that rebellion led by Eknath Shinde, Shinde and his supporting MLAs accused Ajit Pawar, who was the Finance Minister in the then Maha Vikas Aghadi government, of bullying and not giving funds.
However, later with the support of BJP, Shinde himself became the CM of the Mahayuti government and later Ajit also joined that government. Not only this, Shinde surprised everyone by making Ajit the Finance Minister in his government.
Ministers of State say they have not been given powers
Not only Shinde's ministers or BJP MLAs are angry in the Mahayuti government, but all the 5 ministers of state, BJP's Meghna Bordikar, Madhuri Misal, Pankaj Bhoyar, NCP's Indranil Naik and Shiv Sena's Yogesh Kadam are also angry. Because the state ministers have not been allocated powers yet.
The allegation of the state ministers is that 5 months have passed since the formation of the government but the cabinet ministers are not giving them their rights. Therefore, no file reaches their table. The state ministers once again narrated their woes to CM Fadnavis during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Prakash Kumar Pandey