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
Eknath Shinde (left), Uddhav Thackeray The Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde factions of the Shiv Sena on Monday, January 30, 2023, made their final submissions before the Election Commission, asserting their claim to the party organisation and the poll symbol. The written submissions were filed through their respective lawyers on Monday, which was the last … 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
Amid the controversy over which faction controls and heads ‘real’ Shiv Sena, the faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday announced the appointment of executive committee members of the Yuva Sena, the party’s youth wing. Currently, former State Minister Aaditya Thackeray, son of Uddhav Thackeray who heads the other faction of the party, … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is leaving for Delhi on Wednesday night amid talks of the imminent expansion of the state cabinet which has not taken shape even almost a month after a government led by him and the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power. Shinde will board a flight to Delhi at 7 PM. … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday took to Twitter to greet his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray on his 62nd birthday. The CM, however, refrained from referring Thackeray as the Shiv Sena president. “Greetings to former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on his birthday. I pray for his healthy and long life,” Shinde wrote on the microblogging … Read more
The Congress on Thursday criticised the Modi-led BJP government for “misusing” central agencies against opposition leaders. The grand old party, which held massive protests against the Enforcement Directorate‘s questioning of Sonia Gandhi, alleging that the ruling dispensation was treating the opposition as its enemies. Gandhi appeared before the ED here for questioning in the National … Read more
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said there was no “Super CM” in the present Eknath Shinde-led government. Some opposition leaders have claimed that though Shinde is chief minister, it is Fadnavis who is calling the shots. “There is no concept of super CM in the present government. We have only one chief … Read more
Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government faces a floor test today after Sunday’s big win where BJP‘s Rahul Narvekar was elected as the Speaker. The special two-day session of the State Legislative Assembly comes after a high-voltage political drama in the state where a new government led by rebel Shiv Sena MLA Shinde came to power toppling … Read more
The Maharashtra BJP on Tuesday night met Governor BS Koshyari and requested him to ask the Maha Vikas Aghadi government to go for a floor test to prove its majority. On Tuesday a delegation led by Maharashtra Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis met Koshyari at Raj Bhavan and sought a floor test claiming that the Uddhav … Read more