MUMBAI: While Ajit Pawar was on Sunday unanimously elected group leader of the NCP legislature party, sources said that on the question of the chief minister’s post, the party has taken the view that in view of the assembly poll results, it would be appropriate if Devendra Fadnavis is placed at the helm of affairs…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi seems to have found a standard response to electoral losses. The party has suffered humiliating defeat first in Haryana and then in Maharashtra, negating the Lok Sabha gains. However, Rahul’s response to both the defeat has been identical and standard.On Saturday, after loss in Maharashtra, Rahul Gandhi wrote: “The…
NEW DELHI: The euphoria lasted five and a half months flat.After defying the most polarising election campaign by BJP, and posting a creditable performance in the 2024 LS polls that triggered talks of revival and a change in the national mood, Congress Saturday landed back at square one where it had been for a decade.The…
NEW DELHI: Congress couldn’t have imagined a drubbing like the one it got in Maharashtra, where MVA managed only 46 seats – 10 fewer than INDIA bloc’s tally in Jharkhand, where the assembly is less than one-third the size of the western state. Congress’s weakness in straight fights with BJP has also been highlighted again.Coming…
MUMBAI: For the first time in six decades, there will be no leader of opposition (LoP) in the Maharashtra legislative assembly owing to an inadequate number of opposition members.As per the provisions of the Salaries and Allowances of Leaders of Opposition in the State Legislature Act, a leader of opposition can be nominated if the…
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: The result day for the Maharashtra assembly elections brought contrasting outcomes for Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh‘s siblings. His elder brother Amit Deshmukh secured victory, on the other hand, the younger one, Dhiraj, experienced a narrow defeat with a difference of a few thousand votes.The Indian National Congress (INC) candidate Amit Deshmukh emerged victorious…
MUMBAI: Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising NCP (SP), Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress has summoned all its winning candidates to Mumbai immediately after the poll results are declared on Saturday.It is not fear of poaching that has driven this decision but the idea that all legislators of the alliance should be under one roof, MVA sources…
Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde, Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray (File photo) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra’s state assembly elections held on Wednesday, November 20, across all 288 constituencies in a single phase. Polling took place between 7am and 6pm.The Election Commission announced that vote counting will begin on Saturday, November 23 from 8am. Key alliances in the…
