Overview

• A government resolution issued on June 19 reconstituted the high-powered committee following the formation of Devendra Fadnavis’s administration.
• The 18-member panel is chaired by Fadnavis and includes deputies Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar alongside former chief ministers Sharad Pawar, Narayan Rane, and Prithviraj Chavan.
• Legislators from Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress are not included, reflecting the panel’s nonpartisan consensus mandate.
• The committee will revisit Maharashtra’s claim to Belagavi and more than 800 Marathi-speaking villages first contested after the 1957 state reorganisation.
• Maharashtra has appointed expert lawyers to represent its case in the Supreme Court, underscoring its focus on a judicial resolution.