Maharashtra govt appoints guardian ministers for all 36 districts, Aaditya gets Mumbai suburban, Pune goes to Ajit Pawar

Days after extending the cabinet, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday announced the names of the guardian ministers for all 36 districts of the state. While his son and Minister for Environment and Tourism Aaditya Thackeray was appointed as the new guardian minister of Mumbai suburban district, Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar became the guardian minister of Pune.

Congress leader Aslam Shaikh, who is the minister for textile and fisheries of Maharashtra, is the new guardian minister of Mumbai city. Revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat, is Kolhapur’s guardian minister.

Sena leader and minister for urban development, Eknath Shinde, was given the responsibility of two districts — Thane and Gadchiroli, as guardian minister.

Here is the complete list of appointments:

1. Pune  - Ajit Anantrao Pawar

2. Mumbai City - Aslam Ramzan Ali Sheikh

3. Mumbai Suburb - Aditya Uddhav Thackeray

4. Thane - Eknath Sambhaji Shinde

5. Rayagad - Aditi Sunil Tatkare

6. Ratnagiri - Anil Dattatraya Parab

7. Sindhudurg - Uday Ravindra Samant

8. Palghar - Dadaji Dagadu Bhuse

9. Nashik - Chhagan Chandrakant Bhujbal

10. Dhule - Abdul Nabi Sattar

11. Nandurbar - KC Padavi

12. Jalgaon - Gulabrao Raghunath Patil

13. Ahmednagar - Hasan Miyalal Mushrif

14. Satara - Shamrao alias Balasaheb Pandurang Patil

15. Sangli - Jayant Rajaram Patil

16. Solapur - Dilip Dattatray Walse Patil

17. Kolhapur - Vijay alias Balasaheb Bhausaheb Thorat

18. Aurangabad - Subhash Rajaram Desai

19. Jalna - Rajesh Ankushrao Tope

20. Parbhani - Nawab Mohammed Islam Malik

21. Hingoli - Varsha Eknath Gaikwad

22. Bead - Dhananjay Panditrao Munde

23. Nanded - Ashok Shankarrao Chavan

24. Osmanabad - Shankarrao Yashwantrao Gadakh

25. Latur - Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh

26. Amravati - Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur (Sonawane)

27. Akola - Omprakash Babarao Kadu alias Bachchu Kadu

28. Washim - Shambhuraj Shivajirao Desai

29. Buldhana - Dr Rajendra Bhaskararao Shingne

30. Yavatmala - Sanjay Dulichand Rathod

31. Nagpur - Dr Nitin Kashinath Raut

32. Wardha - Sunil Chhatrapal Kedar

33. Bhandara - Satej alias Bunty D Patil

34. Gondia - Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh

35. Chandrapur - Vijay Namdevrao Wadettivar

36. Gadchiroli - Eknath Sambhaji Shinde