Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Reuters Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on March 28 asked the BJP to apologise to former prime minister Manmohan Singh after the CBI filed a closure report in its Air India-Indian Airlines merger case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in … Read more
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said the annual Dussehra rally held at the Shivaji Park in Mumbai has been a tradition and is a legacy of more than five decades. File | Photo Credit: ANI Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the annual Dussehra rally held at the Shivaji Park in … 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
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
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said he received a call from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who enquired about his health, and claimed such gestures were becoming rare in times of “political bitterness”. Raut said Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, a mass contact initiative underway from September 7, is getting a massive … Read more
Ahead of the June 10 Rajya Sabha polls, the Shiv Sena has decided to call its MLAs to Mumbai and lodge them in a hotel to avoid any chances of poaching, a party source said on Friday evening. Seven candidates are in the fray for six Upper House seats from Maharashtra that will go to … Read more
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking the initiation of contempt of court proceedings against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, state home minister Dilip Walse Patil, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, and others for allegedly passing remarks against the judiciary. The petition filed by the Indian Bar Association … Read more
Hailing the victory of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance candidate in the bypoll to Kolhapur North Assembly constituency, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said the result showed that playing “dirty politics” over the issue of loudspeakers at mosques and recital of Hanuman Chalisa did not work. Congress-MVA candidate Jayashri Jadhav on Saturday … Read more
In a dig, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said Raj Thackeray has become a “loudspeaker” of BJP after securing “amnesty” from Central probe agencies, a day after the MNS chief batted for the Uniform Civil Code and stressed the need for controlling the population growth in the country. Stating that Hindutva runs in … Read more
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the backdrop of central agencies intensifying investigation against leaders of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi. Pawar was closeted with Modi at the Prime Minister’s Office in Parliament for nearly 20 minutes. The meeting comes on a day when the CBI took custody of former … Read more