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Maharashtra politics: Despite the power shift, uncertainty remains

The ministry-making exercise took so long because many factors needed to be balanced. But now that it is in place, not everyone is happy with the resultant equation

Bhagat Singh Koshyari
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Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis during Cabinet expansion in Mumbai on August 9.

Aditi Phadnis
Grumbling has already begun on who’s in and who’s left out of the Maharashtra council of ministers, sworn in last week 40 days after Uddhav Thackeray and his team were displaced from office by a group of dissident MLAs led by Eknath Shinde with the assistance of the Devendra Fadnavis-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The ministry-making exercise took so long because many factors needed to be balanced. But now that it is in place, not everyone is happy with the resultant equation.

To soothe the disappointed MLAs who had staked their all to cross the floor and install a new