Prithviraj chavan’s order silences cribbing over ‘jinxed’ mantralaya cabins

Environment and cultural affairs minister Sanjay Deotale and minister of state for home Satej Patil have moved into the sixth-floor cabins that had no takers for past more than a year and

half. Following chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s decision that there would be no change  in the chambers of the old ministers, the newly-appointed ministers of state have been left with no

choice but to move into the cabins that were refused by ministers in the Ashok Chavan government.   Environment and cultural affairs minister Sanjay Deotale and minister of state for home

Satej Patil have moved into the sixth-floor cabins that had no takers for past more than a year and half. The earlier occupants of these cabins had either been stripped of their ministry or

lost in the following elections.   The cabin in which Deotale has moved into was occupied by Satish Chaturvedi and Ramesh Bang in the Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan governments. Both of

them had lost the assembly elections held last year. Satej Patil occupies the cabin which was used by Dharmarao Atram and Nana Panchbudhe, who had lost their ministries.   After Chhagan

Bhujbal lost his deputy chief ministership to Ajit Pawar, he has got an opportunity to move in his old cabin on the second floor in Mantralaya. Water resources minister Sunil Tatkare has

moved into the chamber which was earlier occupied by Ajit Pawar, who moved to the sixth-floor chamber meant for the deputy chief minister.  The exception made to the order issued by the

chief minister was in the case of minister of state for water supply Ranjit Kamble, who shifted to the cabin occupied by Abdul Sattar, who lost his ministry in the new government. Kamble’s

chamber has been allotted to the first-time minister of state for tribal development, Rajendra Gavit. Newly-inducted minister of state DP Sawant has moved into the cabin occupied so far by

minister of women and child welfare Varsha Gaikwad, who is shifted to the cabin which was occupied by ousted minister of state Vijay Vadettiwar.