Updated On: 13 July, 2023 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Ajit Pawar goes to the national capital to meet the BJP leadership, apparently to get the portfolio and cabinet expansion issue resolved after Shinde and Fadnavis held talks with him in Mumbai

Maharashtra Dy CM Ajit Pawar along with NCP leaders in Mumbai. File Pic/Ashish Raje
AMID speculation that the imbroglio over the Eknath Shinde cabinet’s expansion and portfolio distribution has reached the Bharatiya Janata Party’s high command, the Nationalist Congress Party (AP) state Chief Sunil Tatkare said he expected the final decision by Thursday evening.
After affecting a split in the party, nine NCP ministers, including Ajit Pawar, were inducted into the Shinde cabinet on July 2. The delay in portfolio allocation has invited the Opposition’s ire. Sources said the BJP’s senior leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah was reportedly in talks with CM Eknath Shinde, Dy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.