In late July 2012, Sushilkumar Shinde became India's latest Home Minister in a shuffle after Pranab Mukherjee moved upstairs to the Presidency. Earlier, Shinde had been Maharashtra's Chief Minister from January 2003 to October 2004.
Incidentally, Shinde was preceded and then succeeded as CM by the person. He too was in the news a couple of weeks later. Who?
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Vilasrao Deshmukh, who passed away in August 2012.
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