“PM Modi, during his Chandrapur visit, said that Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party are fake. So what is real? One whom (Eknath Shinde) you have torn from our party and made him join your party, or the one on whom you had made the biggest allegations of irrigation scam of … Read more
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena on Thursday released its first list of eight candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in the state. Shiv Sena is part of the NDA, along with Ajit Pawar’s NCP. There are 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has given a ticket to former … Read more
Govinda had emerged as a “giant killer” in 2004 when, as the Congress candidate, he defeated BJP stalwart Ram Naik in the Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat. Shinde welcomed the 60-year-old actor into his party, saying he was a popular figure in all sections of society. Speaking on the occasion, Govinda, who started his acting … Read more
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said Maha Vikas Aghadi has not lost hope in Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar, days after the latter called off the tie-up with the Uddhav Thackeray-led party in Maharashtra. Raut claimed public support is with MVA whose electoral victory would have been grand had VBA come … Read more
The potential entry of the MNS in the BJP-led alliance in Maharashtra has further complicated the seat sharing talks between the BJP and its allies, mainly the Shiv Sena. The Sena (Eknath Shinde) is actively resisting to give away two of its Lok Sabha seats to the MNS, with the state BJP leadership unable to … Read more
Mumbai: Despite being in alliance with Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) and Nationalist Congress Party, BJP has initiated discussions for an alliance with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. According to sources, BJP has proposed to MNS that Amit Thackeray, son of Raj Thackeray, contest the Lok Sabha election … Read more
The bench said it was keeping the issue of maintainability of the petition open. (File photo) The apex court, which had issued notice on the Thackeray group’s petition, asked Shinde and his MLAs to file a response positively on or before April 1 and listed the plea for final hearing on April 8 The Supreme … Read more
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and senior Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi passed away on Friday morning after he suffered a cardiac arrest. Joshi (86), was admitted in the ICU of P D Hinduja Hospital on Wednesday and was severely ill, the hospital had said in a statement on Thursday. Joshi was the Chief Minister of … Read more
The national spokesperson of the Shiv Sena (UBT), Anand Dubey, has called upon the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India, urging them to replicate the justice in Maharashtra that was demonstrated in the recent verdict of Chandigarh Mayor polls. He expressed disappointment with the Maharashtra Assembly speaker, accusing him of failing to deliver a … Read more
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday took a swipe at the opposition over its demand to dismiss the Eknath Shinde-led government over the law and order situation, stating that it has the backing of 225 MLAs in the 288-member assembly. Speaking at an event here where Congress leader Baba Siddique joined the … Read more
