Manipur’s Year of Agony
But everything changed in the month of May, as the state's ethnic fault lines cracked open and long-simmering tensions came to the boil.
The fresh induction on Saturday takes the number of ministers in Sawant’s cabinet to 12, including the Chief Minister.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant expanded his cabinet on Saturday with the induction of three more ministers who were administered the oath of office by Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai at the Raj Bhavan here.
The new ministers are Sudin Dhavalikar of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, Subhash Phaldesai and Nilkanth Halarnkar both from the BJP.
The fresh induction on Saturday takes the number of ministers in Sawant’s cabinet to 12, including the Chief Minister.
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