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Maharashtra garners maximum cabinet berths

Source IANS
Last Updated: Fri, May 22, 2009 20:15 hrs

New Delhi: Maharashtra has garnered the maximum berths, three, in the Manmohan Singh cabinet that took oath here Friday.

The three ministers from Maharashtra are Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and Congress leaders Sushil Kumar Shinde and Murli Deora.

19 cabinet ministers in Manmohan Singh's A-team

Karnataka, West Bengal and Kerala got two berths each in the 20-member cabinet.

Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Assam, Rajasthan, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have one representative each in the central cabinet.

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