New Delhi: The swearing in of the new Congress-NCP ministry in Maharashtra will take place on Saturday with the end of the fortnight-long deadlock over government formation in the state after the assembly elections brought the two parties to power for the third time in a row.
The Congress will have 23 ministers and NCP 20. While all NCP ministers are expected to take oath tomorrow, the Congress ministers would be sworn in two phases.
"We are going to form the new council of ministers tomorrow. We will be staking claim to form the government this evening," said a beaming Chief Minister Ashok Chavan after a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
