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With the Ajit Pawar faction of NCP joining the ruling alliance in Maharashtra, the number of claimants for plum ministerial portfolios have increased and so has the heartburn among legislators belonging to the Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena...
Miffed with the induction of NCP ministers, legislators of the Shinde group spoke with their leader and chief minister Eknath Shinde, where they said key portfolios like finance, irrigation and public works should not be given to ministers from the Ajit faction of NCP...
They said that when Ajit Pawar had the finance portfolio in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, he used to allocate more funds for projects in NCP strongholds, increasing NCP's clout in the state to the detriment of the Shiv Sena..
The ministers told Shinde that if NCP was given the portfolios again, it would push the Shinde faction to the third spot in government and coalition..
When it pulled out of the MVA, Shinde faction MLAs had alleged that they were marginalised by NCP and singled out Ajit's finance department for 'skewed allocation of funds' to NCP areas...
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