Summary:
The reshuffle was necessitated as the Minister of Civil Supplies and Parliamentary affairs Girish Bapat resigned after he won the Lok Sabha election from Pune constituency. Fadnavis has appointed the number two in his Cabinet and state revenue minister Chandrakant Patil as the Pune district guardian minister following Bapat's resignation. Fadnavis is believed to have received green signal for Cabinet expansion from the party president Amit Shah following his meeting held on Thursday. Chief Minister is likely to expand his Cabinet next week as the monsoon session of the state legislature will commence on June 17. Former leader of opposition in the state Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, who quit the Congress party, is expected to be inducted in the state Cabinet..