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6. How many ministers does it take to run a state?
Maharashtra Chief MinisterEknath Shinde is likely to expand his cabinet today by inducting at least 15 ministers.- Shinde and
Fadnavis , who were sworn in on June 30, have been functioning as a two-member cabinet inviting criticism from opposition leaders.
- This is not the first time in the last few years that a state has gone without a full cabinet for about a month.
- It was 32 days after the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP coalition government was formed in Maharashtra in 2019, that chief minister
Uddhav Thackeray expanded his cabinet to its full strength. - In 2019, the then Karnataka chief minister ran his government without a cabinet for 24 days, even holding four cabinet meetings in which he was the only minister in attendance.
- For 68 days between December 13, 2018, and February 18 in 2019, Telangana had the smallest cabinet in the country with the state’s CM heading a two-member cabinet.
- The Constitution (91st Amendment) Act, 2003 limits the size of all ministries to 15% of the total number of members in the
Lok Sabha (for central government) or the state assembly (for states). - A concession has been made for smaller states where the strength of the assembly is 40 or less. These state governments can have a maximum of 12 ministers.
- While the Constitution mentions the lower limit of 12 ministers, the
Supreme Court had ruled in 2008 that there is no violation of the law if a council of ministers has less members than the lower limit because the Act was enacted to put a cap on the huge expenditure incurred by states because of jumbo cabinets.
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