Maharashtra elections: ‘BJP’s victory was a surprise outcome… possible due to…’, says Chris Wood

Maharashtra elections: ‘BJP’s victory was a surprise outcome… possible due to…’, says Chris Wood

Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies, has said that Maharashtra’s Ladki Bahin Yojana cash benefit scheme was a gamechanger for the Bhartiya Janta Party and was key to their landslide victory in the recently concluded elections in the state. Wood said the unexpected success of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the … Read more

Maharashtra Assembly Results 2024 | Who is leading in the NCP battle?

Maharashtra Assembly Results 2024 | Who is leading in the NCP battle?

Results have begun to emerge in the battle for the Maharashtra Assembly, where the Maha Vikas Aghadi and Mahyuti coalitions have staked their claims to 288 seats. Trends indicate a clear victory for the Mahayuti coalition, which consists of the BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction). Maharashtra election results … Read more

Ladki Bahin Yojana: Deputy CM Ajit Pawar calls Maha Vikas Aghadi’s monthly aid plan a ‘bluff’

Ladki Bahin Yojana: Deputy CM Ajit Pawar calls Maha Vikas Aghadi’s monthly aid plan a ‘bluff’

Maharashtra elections 2024: Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Thursday criticised the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) for their plan to provide a monthly aid of Rs 3,000 to women, dismissing it as a ‘bluff’. Ajit Pawar pointed out that when the Mahayuti alliance proposed a comparable scheme in the past, it was met with skepticism … Read more

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

Actor Sayaji Shinde, who played Subramania Bharathi in the poet’s biopic, joins Ajit Pawar-led NCP

Actor Sayaji Shinde, who played Subramania Bharathi in the poet’s biopic, joins Ajit Pawar-led NCP

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar greets actor Sayaji Shinde after the latter joined the NCP in Mumbai on October 11, 2024. Photo: Instagram/@ajitpawarspeaks Veteran actor Sayaji Shinde on Friday (October 11, 2024) joined the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party ahead of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra. Mr. Shinde, who has acted in films in … 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

Sharad Pawar’s NCP to celebrate foundation day in Pune days after Lok Sabha poll results

Sharad Pawar’s NCP to celebrate foundation day in Pune days after Lok Sabha poll results

NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar with AICC in-charge of Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala, Leader of Opposition in the State assembly Vijay Waddetiwar, newly-elected Congress MP Varsha Gaikwad and other party leaders during a meeting at Pawar’s residence, in Mumbai, on June 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) faction will … Read more

Tribunal quashes attachment of Praful Patel’s Mumbai property in DHFL-Mirchi case

Tribunal quashes attachment of Praful Patel’s Mumbai property in DHFL-Mirchi case

In a major relief for NCP leader Praful Patel, an Appellate Tribunal that deals with the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators Act (Safema) quashed the attachment of four floors of a Mumbai building owned by him. The Enforcement Directorate had provisionally attached the floors of Ceejay House in Worli in July 2022, in a money … Read more

Ajit’s ‘absence’ from poll campaign sparks speculation of turmoil in NCP faction

Ajit’s ‘absence’ from poll campaign sparks speculation of turmoil in NCP faction

NCP leader Ajit Pawar. | Photo Credit: ANI With Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar skipping campaigning during the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election, speculation is rife about the rebel NCP faction being in turmoil. Mr. Ajit, who canvassed vigorously in the third phase and went through … Read more