Sonia Gandhi to regularly review work of newly appointed Congress Maharashtra ministers

New Delhi: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi called a meeting of all the newly appointed Congress ministers in the Maharashtra government and instructed that their work will be reviewed regularly.

Gandhi held the meeting at 10, Janpath earlier today and instructed the newly appointed ministers to firmly implement the Common Minimum Programme in the state. Congress ministers in Maharashtra government also met Rahul Gandhi before meeting the interim president of the party.

"High Command will be reviewing the work of all the ministers. The leaders who have been assigned the ministry should firmly



implement the common minimum programme in the state of Maharashtra. There should not be any compromise with the ideology," said senior Congress leader from Maharashtra Vijay Wadettiwar. 

The meetings come a day after a total of 36 leaders from Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress, including Ajit Pawar and Aaditya Thackeray, on Monday took oath as ministers in the Maharashtra government.

Congress leaders Ashok Chavan, Dilip Walse-Patil, Dhananjay Munde, Sunil Chhatrapal Kedar and KC Padavi sworn-in as ministers the Maharashtra Cabinet. However, they are yet to be assigned portfolios.