NCP chief Sharad Pawar and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi come out of the Election Commission office in New Delhi on Oct 6, 2023, after the commission heard the plea of both factions over claims on the party’s name and symbol. | Photo Credit: PTI The Election Commission of India on Friday began its hearing … Read more
NCP leader Jayant Patil expressed confidence in the EC that it would make the right decision regarding the party’s name and symbol amidst an ongoing dispute with Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar. File | Photo Credit: Twitter/Jayant_R_Patil Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader (Sharad Pawar faction), Jayant Patil, on Saturday, expressed confidence in the Election Commission … Read more
Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais congratulates the newly sworn-in State Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar during a ceremony, as State Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis looks on, at Raj Bhavan, in Mumbai on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI The Opposition parties came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party accusing it of engineering the split in the … Read more
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
The BJP’s Maharashtra unit believes the State’s governance record under Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis may take a while to translate into a feel-good factor. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Central leadership is mulling a proposal from its Maharashtra unit to advance the Assembly elections in the State from October 2024 … Read more
Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray at a press conference at his residence ‘Matoshree’, in Mumbai on February 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday told his supporters that the party’s ‘bow and arrow’ symbol has been stolen and the thief needs to be taught a lesson, a remark aimed at … Read more
There is a party that is more than 50 years old and some of whose MLAs and MPs defected under pressure, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut said while referring to Shiv Sena. File | Photo Credit: PTI Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on February 18 slammed the Election Commission (EC) for … Read more
BJP National President J.P. Nadda. Photo:Special arrangement Accusing former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray of stabbing the BJP “in the back” and compromising ideology for considerations of power, BJP national president J.P. Nadda on Monday said that Mr. Thackeray had got a fitting reply after the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis duo toppled the previous Maha Vikas … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray during a meeting, in Nagpur on December 23, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Amid ambivalence in forging an alliance with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Friday met with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on … Read more
Shinde-Fadnavis government is “narrow-minded”, Prime Minister Modi lacks a vision for inclusive development and the BJP is “rejected” in most parts of the country, claims Pawar Shinde-Fadnavis government is “narrow-minded”, Prime Minister Modi lacks a vision for inclusive development and the BJP is “rejected” in most parts of the country, claims Pawar Continuing his tirade … Read more