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

Modi asked Ratan Tata to shift aircraft complex from Maharashtra to Gujarat: Sharad Pawar

Modi asked Ratan Tata to shift aircraft complex from Maharashtra to Gujarat: Sharad Pawar

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

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

Pre-Lok Sabha campaign, shifting alliances within Pawar clan heats up contest in bastion Baramati

Pre-Lok Sabha campaign, shifting alliances within Pawar clan heats up contest in bastion Baramati

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

Supreme Court to hear Sharad Pawar's plea against EC order recognising Ajit Pawar-led faction as real NCP

Supreme Court to hear Sharad Pawar's plea against EC order recognising Ajit Pawar-led faction as real NCP

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

Lok Sabha polls: Baramati big battle looms as Supriya Sule versus Sunetra Pawar buzz grows

Lok Sabha polls: Baramati big battle looms as Supriya Sule versus Sunetra Pawar buzz grows

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

Ajit Pawar should have questioned Maharashtra government over Maratha quota delay: Manoj Jarange

Ajit Pawar should have questioned Maharashtra government over Maratha quota delay: Manoj Jarange

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