Maharashtra Minister of State for Home Affairs Yogesh Kadam. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The political controversy triggered in Maharashtra after Minister of State for Home (Urban) Yogesh Kadam allegedly overruled a police report to grant a gun licence to Sachin Ghaywal, the brother of notorious Pune gangster Nilesh Ghaywal. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader … Read more
File picture of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Ajit Pawar and Devendra Fadnavis. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s slogan, “batenge toh katenge” (divided we perish), has been deployed by the BJP in the Maharashtra Assembly election, as a rallying cry for Hindu vote consolidation and to discourage caste-based voting. … Read more
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde on his way to file nomination from Kopri-Pachpakhadi constituency, ahead of Assembly polls, in Thane, on October 28, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI With just 24 hours remaining for filing nominations for the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the ruling Mahayuti and the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) have still not been able … Read more
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole. File | Photo Credit: ANI Ahead of Assembly polls, the Opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday (October 18, 2024) accused the Mahayuti government of deleting voters’ names from the voters’ list in the constituencies where MVA had a substantial lead in the Lok Sabha elections. Showing evidence, MVA … Read more
MVA leaders Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar and Nana Patole protest at Hutatma Chowk over Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Statue Collapse in Mumbai, on September 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The collapse of a statue of the 17th-century Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Sindhudurg’s Rajkot Fort has sparked a heated political confrontation between … Read more