The Maharashtra Assembly on Friday (December 20, 2024) passed a Bill seeking to reform the prison system in the State. Also read: Comment |The long fight for accessibility, dignity in Indian prisons The Maharashtra Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2024, is based on the Model Prisons Bill, 2023, sent by the Centre to the States, … Read more
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
NCP leader Ajit Pawar was on Monday named the leader of opposition in Maharashtra Assembly. He succeeds BJP‘s Devendra Fadnavis, who was sworn in as Deputy CM on June 30. Speaker Rahul Narvekar announced that Pawar will take over as Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, adding NCP has emerged as the single largest opposition … Read more
The opposition BJP stopped the election for the Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly ‘through’ the governor’s office, state Congress chief Nana Patole alleged on Tuesday. The election, scheduled during the day, was deferred following a legal advice, sources had said earlier. “The BJP obstructed the Speaker’s election through the governor’s office,” Patole alleged while speaking to … Read more
The Congress has begun exerting pressure on the Maha Vikas Aghadi government to hold election for the new Maharashtra Assembly Speaker in the current assembly session itself. The Congress ministers are believed to have raised the issue in the cabinet meeting on Sunday as the party feels it has little influence and say in the … Read more