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Congress leader and Maharashtra Cabinet minister Balasaheb Thorat has now revealed that it was the Shiva Sena that approached the Congress first in order to keep the BJP at bay
  

In its editorial, the Shiv Sena said that Maharashtra Congress legislator Sangram Thopat's supporters allegedly vandalised the Congress office after the Cabinet expansion following discontentment over non-inclusion of the leader in the state Cabinet

Congress leaders Vijay Wadettiwar, KC Padvi, Amit Deshmukh, Sunil Kedar, and Yashomati Thakur will take oath as ministers as part of the Cabinet expansion

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Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray was sworn-in as the chief minister of Maharashtra along with six Cabinet ministers (three from Congress, two from Shiv Sena and one from NCP).