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Sharad Pawar-led NCP to join NDA but tussle on for Maha Finance Ministry

By Bobby Anthony
Mumbai, Jul 17 (UNI) The Sharad Pawar-led NCP is all set to join the BJP-led Maharashtra cabinet as well as the NDA union cabinet in a few days, sources said here on Friday.
The names of senior Sharad Pawar-led NCP leaders Jayant Patil and MLA Jitendra Awhad have been tipped to get ministerial positions in the Devendra Fadnavis cabinet, while the party's National Working President as well as Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule, is expected to join the union cabinet as a minister, as part of the BJP-led NDA government, sources said.
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