MUMBAI: Six months is a long time in politics. The ruling Mahayuti had suffered a major setback in the state in the Lok Sabha elections. But it has made a crushing comeback in the assembly elections, winning 230 of the state’s 288 assembly seats – at 80%, that’s more than a three-fourths majority. MVA, which…
NEW DELHI: There is unalloyed joy in BJP over the Maharashtra victory. However, its ally, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, may now have mixed feelings over the result because of the sheer numbers raked in by BJP.After BJP’s best-ever performance in the western state, with the party missing the majority mark of 145 by just 13…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday celebrated BJP’s spectacular win in Maharashtra as a triumph of his platform of unity, development and over INDIA bloc’s politics of “divisiveness, negativity and deceit”, as he sought to elevate his ‘ek hain to safe hain’ theme as the country’s new “mahamantra”.“After Haryana, the biggest message of this…
NAGPUR: While the electoral battle was primarily a Mahayuti versus Maha Vikas Aghadi contest, it was the head-to-head fights between BJP and Congress in 75 constituencies that shaped the larger outcome. BJP emerged victorious in 65 seats of these, leaving Congress with a mere 10.The assembly election, coming months after the Lok Sabha polls in…
MUMBAI: Sharad Pawar‘s self-proclaimed swansong in electoral politics ended in a damp squib with his nephew’s NCP winning more than 4x the seats that his own party could muster. In retaliation for Ajit’s decision to field his wife against Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule, the Maratha warhorse had turned the Baramati contest again into a prestige…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday established himself, and rather convincingly, as the leader of the real Shiv Sena.With his party winning 57 seats – one more than the undivided Shiv Sena’s 56 in the 2019 assembly elections and a staggering 35 more than Shiv Sena-UBT’s Saturday tally – he now has the…
NEW DELHI: Giving a boost to BJP and its allies in bypolls at 48 assembly seats across 15 states, NDA emerged the dominant force, securing 26 seats.Among the big wins was UP’s Kundarki constituency, which BJP picked up after 31 years. The seat had remained an SP stronghold since 2012.Continuing its dominance in Assam, BJP-led…
DEHRADUN: Days after six youths were killed in a collision between their MUV and a container truck near ONGC Chowk in Dehradun, police arrested the truck driver in UP’s Saharanpur Friday. The driver had fled the scene abandoning the truck.The impact of the accident was so severe that six of the seven occupants in the…
NEW DELHI: When the verdict of the Lok Sabha elections was announced in June, resentment among farmers in Maharashtra was seen as a major factor behind BJP’s dismal performance in the state, along with nervousness among Scheduled Caste voters who feared the party might amend the Constitution if it returned with 400-plus seats. Changing the…
NAGPUR: The Sangh Parivar unleashed its well-oiled machinery to power BJP-led Mahayuti to a landslide victory. The Nagpur-headquartered organisation quietly mobilised its vast network of cadres, organising over 60,000 voter meetings statewide to counter opposition narratives and consolidate support under the campaign banner – ‘Sajagraho’ (Be vigilant, be awake).Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, in an…
