Maharashtra Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis. File | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal Maharashtra Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday condemned the statements made against Mahatma Gandhi by Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide. “I strongly condemn statements made by Sambhaji Bhide. Mahatma Gandhi is the Father … 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
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
Former NCP chief Sharad Pawar speaking during his autobiography launch. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini NCP leader Sharad Pawar on May 2 declared that he will step down as Nationalist Congress Party president during his autobiography book launch. “After a long period of public life from May 1, 1960, to May 1, 2023, it is necessary … 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
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. File. | Photo Credit: – Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on January 15 said the Opposition should take a collective decision on Election Commission’s proposal regarding the remote electronic voting machine (RVM). He also said after a briefing by the election commission on Monday, if any … Read more
Facing a revolt within his own ranks, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was ready to resign on June 22 at 5 pm after it was clear that there was “no way out” of the political crisis facing Maharashtra government but MVA allies convinced him not to resign, sources said. The sources said that Uddhav Thackeray … Read more
Mumbai: At least 25 Congress MLAs from Maharashtra have sought an appointment with party president Sonia Gandhi to complain against Congress ministers in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government who did ‘not respond to their concerns’. The MLAs have in a letter urged Gandhi to intervene to ‘set things right.’ Some of the MLAs told ET … Read more
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his proposed visit to Pune on Sunday, saying that it was to inaugurate infrastructure projects that were not yet complete. The government, Pawar said, should be focusing more on evacuating students stuck in war-torn Ukraine. The NCP chief, … Read more
Maharashtra BJP on Saturday continued to target the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in the state over the arrest of its minister Nawab Malik, and sought to know why Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was not asking him to step down. Talking to reporters in Pune, Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil said that in the past, … Read more