Bhujbal to be new Maha Deputy CM

Agencies Posted: Dec 05, 2008 at 1428 hrs
Mumbai Senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal will be the new Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Bhujbal would also look after the Home department, party sources said on Friday.

Bhujbal replaces R R Patil who resigned from his post in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Mumbai last week. Bhujbal was in charge of the same portfolio in the previous Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government in the state.