Maharashtra Assembly polls: MVA manifesto promises caste census, ₹3000 for women, says Kharge

Maharashtra Assembly polls: MVA manifesto promises caste census, ₹3000 for women, says Kharge

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, and NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule release Maha Vikas Aghadi’s manifesto for Maharashtra Assembly elections, in Mumbai, Sunday (November 10, 2024). | Photo Credit: PTI Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday launched the joint manifesto for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance for the upcoming … Read more

Maharashtra Assembly elections: Mahayuti, MVA yet to complete seat-sharing

Maharashtra Assembly elections: Mahayuti, MVA yet to complete seat-sharing

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

MVA party high commands will decide remaining 40 seats: Nana Patole after seat-sharing spats

MVA party high commands will decide remaining 40 seats: Nana Patole after seat-sharing spats

Maha Vikas Aaghadi Leaders Nana Patole, Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar during the MahaVikas Aghadi Party Workers Meeting held in Mumbai ahead of Maharashtra Assembly Elections on Friday (October 19, 2024). | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Maha Vikas Aghadi, Maharashtra’s Opposition coalition, still needs to resolve internal differences regarding almost 40 of the State’s … Read more

Shivaji Maharaj statue collapse: MVA launches ‘Jode Maro’ protest against MahaYuti government

Shivaji Maharaj statue collapse: MVA launches ‘Jode Maro’ protest against MahaYuti government

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

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

With MVA shaken over Sangli rift, Congress brass steps in to pacify restive cadre

With MVA shaken over Sangli rift, Congress brass steps in to pacify restive cadre

It’s a deal: Congress State president Nana Patole, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, and NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar announcing the candidates in Mumbai on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini With tensions continuing to run high within partners of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) over the ceding of the Sangli Lok Sabha … Read more

MVA says discussions complete on all 48 seats in Maharashtra

MVA says discussions complete on all 48 seats in Maharashtra

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut with other leaders addresses a press conference after a Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders meeting. | Photo Credit: PTI Stating that the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) had completed discussion on all 48 Lok Sabha seats, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) spokesperson Sanjay Raut on Thursday reiterated there were … Read more

MVA proposes Prakash Ambedkar’s induction; VBA chief disposes, says ‘more clarity’ needed from Congress

MVA proposes Prakash Ambedkar’s induction; VBA chief disposes, says ‘more clarity’ needed from Congress

Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi president Prakash Ambedkar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Despite the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition announcing the induction of the Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi into the MVA fold, Mr. Ambedkar on Wednesday clarified that his party was not yet part of the MVA, while demanding that the All-India Congress Committee … Read more

MVA forms committees for INDIA meet in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1

MVA forms committees for INDIA meet in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1

The Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP and Congress has formed several committees to plan various aspects of the meeting of the Opposition bloc INDIA on August 31 and September 1 in Mumbai. Sources on August 25 said the committees, which include two leaders from each of the three parties, will take … Read more

We are not a Facebook government like Uddhav Thackeray’s MVA, says CM Eknath Shinde  

We are not a Facebook government like Uddhav Thackeray’s MVA, says CM Eknath Shinde  

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. | Photo Credit: PTI Targeting former Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) faction leader Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on May 25 said that all top authorities in his administration moved in the field to solve people’s problems unlike the ex-CM who “conducted his government over Facebook.” Speaking … Read more