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
Nationalist Congress Party [NCP] [SP] chief Sharadchandra Pawar | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini After the inauguration of Tata Aircraft Complex in Vadodara, Gujarat, on Monday, the Opposition criticised the ruling Mahayuti government, accusing it of pulling out all development projects out of Maharashtra and taking them to Gujarat. Nationalist Congress Party [NCP] [SP] chief … Read more
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
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
The battle for Baramati (in Pune district) is arguably the most keenly contested electoral fight in the upcoming Lok Sabha election in Maharashtra. However, shifting alliances within the Pawar family has ensured that the contest has heated up even before the start of the official campaign. Sources say that Deputy CM and rebel NCP leader … Read more
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on February 19 a plea of Sharad Pawar challenging an Election Commission order recognising the Ajit Pawar-led faction as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and KV Viswanathan … Read more
Two months ago when Maharashtra Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar was asked if his faction of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will put up a candidate from the Lok Sabha constituency of Baramati, the pocket borough of the Pawar clan, against his the cousin Sharad Pawar‘s daughter Supriya Sule, who is the sitting MP, he said, … Read more
Manoj Jarange-Patil has been demanding that Kunbi OBC caste certificates be given to the Maratha community. File Photo: PTI | Photo Credit: PTI Activist Manoj Jarange on January 22 said Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should have questioned the State government over the delay in granting quota to Marathas and claimed that Mr. Pawar … Read more
Union Minister for Road Transport and Shipping Nitin Gadkari with NCP chief Sharad Pawar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday lavished fulsome praise on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, remarking that Maharashtra’s leadership was embodied in Mr. Pawar’s person. The two leaders from opposing … Read more
The member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly representing the Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane district made this demand in a video message posted on social media platform X on Monday night. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Jitendra Awhad has hailed the Bihar government’s caste survey and demanded … Read more