Maharashtra Assembly polls: NCP releases fourth list with two names, former district head of Shiv Sena UBT fielded in Bhor

Maharashtra Assembly polls: NCP releases fourth list with two names, former district head of Shiv Sena UBT fielded in Bhor

Ajit Pawar’s NCP released the fourth list for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, with two names on it on Tuesday (October 29, 2024). File | Photo Credit: PTI Ajit Pawar’s NCP on Tuesday (October 29, 2024) released the fourth list for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, with two names in it. Tuesday (October 29, 2024) … Read more

Maharashtra Assembly elections: Six in 10 Maharashtrians relate more to the national identity than the regional

Maharashtra Assembly elections: Six in 10 Maharashtrians relate more to the national identity than the regional

Students paint posters urging voters to vote for the Lok Sabha election 2024. File picture used for representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The State of Bombay was bifurcated in 1960 into the Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and the Gujarati-speaking Gujarat. Balasaheb Thackeray’s satirical cartoons on anti-migrant sentiments gained steam with the local population which led to … Read more

With polls, Sena groups go for the jugular at Dasara rallies

With polls, Sena groups go for the jugular at Dasara rallies

The Dasara rallies in Maharashtra saw a face-off between Shiv Sena UBT leader Uddhav Thackeray and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde group) leader and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. While Mr. Thackeray’s group firmly pitched him as the CM candidate for the coming State Assembly election, Mr. Shinde took a jibe on him for his Chief Ministerial … Read more

Congress loses pole position among allies in Maharashtra, Jharkhand

Congress loses pole position among allies in Maharashtra, Jharkhand

Former Haryana CM and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda upon his arrival to address the media regarding the Haryana Assembly election results, in Rohtak, on October 8, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Assembly election results in Haryana are “surprising, against popular sentiment and cannot be accepted”, the Congress said on Tuesday (October 8, 2024) … Read more

Ahead of poll, credit war breaks out in Maharashtra over classical language status to Marathi

Ahead of poll, credit war breaks out in Maharashtra over classical language status to Marathi

The Union Cabinet’s decision on Thursday to grant classical language status to Marathi, a demand pending since 2013, has set off a political credit war in the State ahead of the Assembly election due this year. After Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to X to state that “Marathi is India’s pride” and “this honour acknowledges … Read more

MNS eyes Worli seat against Aditya Thackeray in the upcoming assembly election in Mumbai 

MNS eyes Worli seat against Aditya Thackeray in the upcoming assembly election in Mumbai 

Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray. | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre Earlier this year, in April, while addressing Gudi Padwa rally in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief, Raj Thackeray had made it clear to his supporters that his party was not eyeing to contest Lok Sabha 2024 but was preparing for the … Read more

Ajit sounds poll bugle in Baramati; ‘don’t fall prey to fake narratives of MVA’

Ajit sounds poll bugle in Baramati; ‘don’t fall prey to fake narratives of MVA’

In a massive show of strength, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday kickstarted his campaign for the upcoming Assembly election from the Pawar clan bastion of Baramati in Pune district. After suffering a humiliating drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha poll at the hands of his uncle … Read more