Mumbai: Maharashtra CM Fadnavis called on Friday Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao in Mumbai ahead of the start of the monsoon session and amid talk of cabinet expansion. Sources said the purpose of the meeting was a “routine briefing” by the Chief Minister. The monsoon session of the state legislature will begin on June 17. In the last few days, both Fadnavis and finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar had said the ministry will be expanded. A vacancy was created due to the death of BJP leader Pandurang Fundkar, then agriculture minister, in 2018. The portfolio is now being handled by revenue minister Chandrakant Patil.
Deepak Sawant, then health minister, resigned earlier this year and the dept is being looked after by Eknath Shinde, also PWD minister. Meanwhile, Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao paid a courtesy visit to Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao in Mumbai.
