Maharashtra's GSDP likely to expand by 10% in FY25, govt focus on farmers: Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra's GSDP likely to expand by 10% in FY25, govt focus on farmers: Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra’s gross state domestic product (GSDP) was expected to grow by 10% in FY 2024-25 and the government was committed to ensure that revenue deficit doesn’t cross the prescribed limit, Finance Minister Ajit Pawar told the Legislative Assembly on Friday. The GSDP, which was … Read more

Supreme Court to hear Sharad Pawar's plea against EC order recognising Ajit Pawar-led faction as real NCP

Supreme Court to hear Sharad Pawar's plea against EC order recognising Ajit Pawar-led faction as real NCP

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on February 19 a plea of Sharad Pawar challenging an Election Commission order recognising the Ajit Pawar-led faction as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and KV Viswanathan … Read more

Baba Siddique joins Ajit Pawar’s NCP in Maharashtra days after quitting Congress

Baba Siddique joins Ajit Pawar’s NCP in Maharashtra days after quitting Congress

Former Maharashtra Minister and Congress MLA Baba Siddique joins Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-Ajit Pawar’s faction) in the presence of party chief and State Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, party MP Praful Patel and others, in Mumbai. | Photo Credit: ANI Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, on Saturday joined the Nationalist Congress Party, a major boost … Read more

Chhagan Bhujbal attempting to 'damage' Ajit Pawar, Fadnavis, says Maratha activist Jarange

Chhagan Bhujbal attempting to 'damage' Ajit Pawar, Fadnavis, says Maratha activist Jarange

Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil. File | Photo Credit: PTI Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on February 4 said Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal was trying to “damage” Deputy Chief Ministers Ajit Pawar and Devendra Fadnavis with his statements about the Maratha reservation. The Minister has accused the State government of facilitating “backdoor entry” of … Read more

Ajit Pawar should have questioned Maharashtra government over Maratha quota delay: Manoj Jarange

Ajit Pawar should have questioned Maharashtra government over Maratha quota delay: Manoj Jarange

Manoj Jarange-Patil has been demanding that Kunbi OBC caste certificates be given to the Maratha community. File Photo: PTI | Photo Credit: PTI Activist Manoj Jarange on January 22 said Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should have questioned the State government over the delay in granting quota to Marathas and claimed that Mr. Pawar … Read more

Dismissing speculation, Ajit Pawar reiterates that he will remain in NCP till his last breath

Dismissing speculation, Ajit Pawar reiterates that he will remain in NCP till his last breath

With the buzz around him joining the ruling Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dispensation refusing to abate, senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Tuesday again reiterated he would “remain in the NCP till his last breath.” Addressing a meeting of his party workers and constituents in the Pawar clan … Read more

As buzz around NCP being split settles, sparks fly between allies Sanjay Raut and Ajit Pawar

As buzz around NCP being split settles, sparks fly between allies Sanjay Raut and Ajit Pawar

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Sanjay Raut. File | Photo Credit: ANI While the buzz of Ajit Pawar joining the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena dispensation may have apparently subsided, the friction between Mr. Pawar and his Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition ally, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut continued. A … Read more

People voted for PM Modi’s charisma, not degree: Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar

People voted for PM Modi’s charisma, not degree:  Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar

Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Ajit Pawar. File | Photo Credit: ANI Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar has credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma for the BJP’s victory in 2014 and said inflation and jobs for the youth are more important issues in the country than the PM’s academic degree. Mr. Pawar’s … Read more

Maharashtra Assembly byelection | Shiv Sainiks must take revenge on traitors who deposed Uddhav Thackeray as CM: Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra Assembly byelection | Shiv Sainiks must take revenge on traitors who deposed Uddhav Thackeray as CM: Ajit Pawar

Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Ajit Pawar. | Photo Credit: PTI Stating that the rebel Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had no contribution in building the Sena founded by the late Bal Thackeray, Maharashtra Leader of Opposition and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Monday exhorted Shiv … Read more

Fissures resurface in MVA over Ajit Pawar’s ‘soft’ stand towards Shinde-Fadnavis govt.

Fissures resurface in MVA over Ajit Pawar’s ‘soft’ stand towards Shinde-Fadnavis govt.

The suspension of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) State president Jayant Patil for the better part of the Winter Session of the Maharashtra Assembly session and the perceived ‘softness’ of Patil’s party colleague Ajit Pawar (who is Leader of Opposition) towards the ruling Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis dispensation has again brought tensions within the Sharad Pawar-led party … Read more