Ajit Pawar bags Finance Ministry, loyalists get 6 portfolios
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The Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) rebel leader, Ajit Pawar, was granted Maharashtra's Finance Ministry on Friday. The NCP faction led by Pawar has been granted five other portfolios, including the Cooperation Ministry, which will be helmed by Dilip Walse Patil. No new faces were inducted into the cabinet as was expected by the Shiv Sena camp led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.