NEW DELHI: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that the state of Maharashtra should also advocate for an anti-rape bill similar to the one passed by West Bengal assembly, which seeks capital punishment for rape convicts, adding that the party will “highlight this point in the poll manifesto as well.”“Maharashtra should consider replicating…
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Friday criticised the Centre for not respecting the position of leader of the opposition, a day after Rahul Gandhi was not allotted a front-row seat at the Independence Day flag-hoisting ceremony at Red Fort.“The Centre did not honour the post of leader of opposition,” said…
NEW DELHI: Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday expressed his willingness to support any candidate put forward by the Congress and NCP(SP) as the Maha Vikas Aghadi‘s (MVA) chief ministerial face for the upcoming state elections.While addressing Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) cadres, Uddhav emphasised that Maharashtra assembly elections will be a fight to…
NAGPUR: Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Saturday that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt had given a ‘supari‘ to cops to implicate him and a few other BJP leaders and put them behind bars. Fadnavis was responding to former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh‘s statement that MVA conspired to frame top BJP…
A rift in the Maha Vikas Aghadi surfaced over selecting a CM candidate for the assembly elections, with Congress backing the largest party’s choice post-election and Shiv Sena proposing a pre-election candidate, hinting at Uddhav Thackeray MUMBAI: A tiff broke out in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday on the issue of having a…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission (EC) on Thursday allowed Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasheb Thackeray), or UBT to accept public contributions in view of the looming Maharashtra assembly polls.Uddhav Thackery-led party had requested the poll body to issue a communication or certificate recording the status of the party for the purpose of accepting voluntary contributions from the…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday hailed the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance’s victory in the Lok Sabha elections as a new beginning. “This Lok Sabha poll victory for Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is not the end, it is the beginning,” Thackeray said during a press conference, emphasizing the coalition’s strengthened…
MUMBAI: In the 2019 polls, Maharashtra, which sends the second highest number of MPs to the Lok Sabha in the country, played a key role in PM Modi’s victory with the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance winning 41 of the state’s 48 seats. But in Verdict 2024, the state has delivered a major blow to the NDA….
AMRAVATI: Twenty-four hours after Election Commission slapped a notice on Uddhav Thackeray for use of ‘Jai Bhavani‘ in its anthem, the Shiv Sena (UBT) president defied the poll panel by vigorously chanting the slogan at a packed Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) meeting at Amravati — the first mammoth show of strength on one platform by…
NAGPUR/CHANDRAPUR: Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Tuesday urged EC to cancel the candidature of Maharashtra forests minister and BJP Chandrapur candidate Sudhir Mungantiwar for alleged “incestuous remarks” against Congress at a rally on Monday later addressed by PM Narendra Modi.Mungantiwar’s remarks went viral, triggered outrage, ignited protests across the state and led to a police…
