Mumbai Mar 19 PTI The Nationalist Congress Party NCP in Maharashtra has decided to distribute the portfolios held by party leader and cabinet minister Nawab Malik currently in custody in a money laundering case to other ministers of the party a senior leader has said With this decision Malik will be left with no portfolio in the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government The NCP has however decided not to ask Malik to tender resignation as demanded by the opposition BJP Malik held ministries of Skills Development and Minority Affairs in the state government He is also the guardian minister of the Parbhani and the Gondia districts The Skills Development ministry will be reassigned to state Health Minister Rajesh Tope and the Minority Affairs department to Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad respectively Social Justice minister Dhananjay Munde has been given charge of the Parbhani district MoS for Power Prajakt Tanpure will be the new guardian minister of the Gondia district the NCP leader said Maharashtra state NCP president and water resources minister Jayant Patil told reporters that the NCPs proposal for distributing Maliks portfolios will be sent to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray who will then forward it to Raj Bhavan PTI MR NSK NSK

Mumbai Dec 17 PTI Against the backdrop of Madhya Pradesh authorities being told to stay the poll process for OBC-reserved seats in local bodies the NCP in Maharashtra on Friday said those against quota seemed to be succeeding and called for a united fight The Supreme Court during the day directed the State Election Commission SEC in Madhya Pradesh to stay the election process on local bodies seats reserved for Other Backward Classes OBCs and re-notify such seats for the general category An SC bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and C T Ravikumar also observed it had passed an order on December 15 directing the SEC in Maharashtra to notify seats which were reserved for OBCs as general category ones adding that the same principle and analogy must apply in the local body election in Madhya Pradesh as well In a tweet in Hndi Maharashtra minister and NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik said Supreme Court ke aadesh ke baad Maharashtra ke saath ab Madhya Pradesh mein bhi OBC aarakshan par sankat nirman ho gaya hai after the Supreme Courts order the OBC reservation is in danger in Madhya Pradesh along with Maharashtra Malik tweeted in Hindi The agenda of those who are against reservation is seemingly succeeding We will have to fight unitedly No reservation no election he added Malik earlier in the day said there may be law and order issues in Maharashtra if elections to local bodies are held without 27 per cent reservation for OBCs He also accused the BJP of misleading people on the issue PTI ENM BNM BNM BNM