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NEW DELHI: In a U-turn, Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, on Saturday announced his decision not to quit the post despite the BJP‘s lackluster performance in the recent Lok Sabha elections in the state. His announcement came after a party meeting where state BJP legislators passed a resolution expressing their confidence in…
NEW DELHI: Vishal Patil who has been elected as independent MP from Sangli in Maharashtra on Thursday met the Congress brass and extended his support to the party. The development is significant as Congress that was stuck at 99 MPs can claim support of 100 members, even if technically an independent cannot join a political…
NEW DELHI: Independent Lok Sabha member from Maharashtra Vishal Patil met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday in New Delhi and extended his support to the party. Notably, Patil, grandson of former Maharashtra chief minister Vasantdada Patil, secured victory in the Lok Sabha election from the Sangli constituency.Despite being a former Congress leader, Patil had…
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday offered to step down as Maharashtra deputy chief minister taking moral responsibility for the party’s poor showing in Lok Sabha elections in the state. The BJP, which had 23 members in the last Lok Sabha, could manage to in only 9 this time around. Fadnavis urged…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s ambitious and street-smart CM Eknath Shinde had shown time and again that he could not be written off. After being suppressed and passed over by Uddhav Thackeray, Shinde struck back by splitting Shiv Sena and taking it over. On allying with BJP to form the government, he managed to wrest the top post,…
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….
MUMBAI: Maharashtra is seeing what is easily one of the most riveting battles within the mammoth general elections which will be decided one way or the other on Tuesday, reports Priyanka Kakodkar. Verdict 2024 will reveal how the Modi factor squared off against splits in two major regional parties in the state, Shiv Sena and…
BHUBANESWAR/PUNE/RAIPUR: Life-sapping temperatures caused 67 more suspected heatstroke deaths in Odisha in the past 48 hours, with Balangir alone accounting for 20 lives. The death toll in the state on Saturday was 96 in 72 hours. As of now, the Odisha govt has confirmed 15 heatstroke deaths while 81 autopsy reports are pending at the…
NEW DELHI: The fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections for 49 seats on Monday saw 62.2% turnout (according to data available at 10.30 pm on Tuesday), which may rise marginally when final data is released by EC. In 2019, the polling in this phase was 62.5%.According to data updated by EC on its voter turnout…
