Reshuffle: Pankaja Munde tweets she won’t attend WLS 2016, Fadnavis says she must

Pankaja Munde had earlier declined to go to the meet in Singapore after she was relieved of the portfolio of water conservation minister

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In Saturday’s Maharashtra Cabinet reshuffle, Pankaja Munde was relieved of the water conservation ministry.

After divesting Pankaja Munde of the important water conservation portfolio in the cabinet shuffle, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has now asked her to attend an international meet she wasn’t inclined to.

Soon after news of her being relieved from the water conservation portfolio became public, Munde said she was to reach Singapore to attend a global water leader summit on Monday but won’t do so as she was no longer the minister of that department.

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Fadnavis, who is out of the country on an official tour, took to Twitter to responded, by saying that she must attend the event.

“As a senior minister, you (Munde) would be representing the government of Maharashtra,” Fadnavis said.

Reaching singapore tomorrow on monday there is world water leader summit i was invited but now wont attend since i m not minister incharge

— PankajaGopinathMunde (@Pankajamunde) July 9, 2016

Of course you must attend WLS 2016.
As a senior Minister you would be representing ‘The Government of Maharashtra’. https://t.co/czMYpLepMA

— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) July 9, 2016

Earlier, as the water conservation minister, Munde had courted controversy in April by posting a selfie online. She had later said that she posted selfies on her tour of parched Latur on the weekend in appreciation of the work done there by the local administration for drought relief.

Opposition had then accused Munde of gross insensitivity.

First uploaded on: 10-07-2016 at 11:19 IST

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