MUMBAI, May 5 -- After Shiv Sena leader and social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat lambasted the finance department for diverting Rs.746 crore from the social justice and tribal welfare departments to Ladki Bahin beneficiaries, finance minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday asserted that this was a cabinet decision taken with the assent of all the three Mahayuti parties. He also indicated that the dispute would now be solved by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. On May 2, the state government issued a government resolution (GR) to divert Rs.410.30 crore from the social justice department-which looks after schemes meant for scheduled castes (SCs)-and Rs.335.70 crore from the tribal development department, which oversees scheduled tribe (ST) schemes. The funds, the GR stated, were to go to SC and ST beneficiaries of the Ladki Bahin scheme. Ajit Pawar, who was in Pune and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar on Sunday, told the media that the dispute would be resolved in Fadnavis's court. "The chief minister will speak on the issue," he said in Sambhaji Nagar. P4...