MUMBAI: NCP candidate from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar, Nawab Malik, said on Tuesday that the anti-conversion law mooted in BJP’s manifesto for Maharashtra is just being used to misguide people and his party will not join a govt with the saffron party “if it does politics on divisive and disputed issues”. Malik also did not rule…
NAGPUR: As the final nominations are in, it has become clear that Congress has failed to secure enough seats on the MVA bargaining table. Congress managed to eke out around 100 seats in the MVA alliance. In comparison, BJP walked away with around 150 in the seat-sharing haggling match within the Mahayuti. While it’s clear…
MUMBAI/NAGPUR: Rebels threatened to become a headache for the two major alliances in the state as nominations for the assembly polls drew to a close Tuesday. While Mahayuti identified 80 rebels, close to 150 politicians in all from across parties have filed nominations in defiance of their party’s, or multi-party alliance’s, official candidates. With Nov…
Leader of opposition Vijay Wadettiwar MUMBAI: A day after Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut declared that MVA partners Congress, NCP (SP) and UBT Sena would contest 85 seats each, a top Congress politician said that his party would contest 104 seats, while UBT Sena and NCP-SP would fight from 94 and 84 seats respectively.“The…
NEW DELHI: It has been six days since the Election Commission announced dates for the Maharashtra assembly elections, but neither the ruling Mahayuti nor the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi has finalised seat-sharing pact for the “maha” battle of ballots. Leaders of both the alliances claim that they are close to sealing a deal, but the…
After Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav demanded that his party be given 12 seats in the MVA alliance, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray spoke to him late on Friday. Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said Uddhav had a “positive conversation” and SP will be “taken along” in MVA. Akhilesh is currently touring Maharashtra to…
MUMBAI: A day after MVA failed to resolve differences over 28 assembly seats though it reached an agreement on seat-sharing on 260, a row broke out between Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Sanjay Raut and MPCC chief Nana Patole. While Raut said Congress netas in the state “are not capable of taking decisions” and Patole maintained the…
Maha appointments to state-run bodies violate code: UBT MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) has alleged that to pacify its functionaries and office-bearers ahead of polls, Mahayuti governement has appointed over 50 functionaries from BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP to 27 newly formed state-run corporations just before the model code of conduct (MCC) was announced.Sena (UBT) said…
MUMBAI: Responding to questions on whether the state’s electoral watchdog would take action on comments like ‘vote jihad‘, additional chief electoral officer Kiran Kulkarni on Wednesday said, “This has legal aspects… We will seek legal opinion before deciding to forward it to the ECI.” He said the state electoral office had not received complaints on…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday challenged Sharad Pawar, who remains the fulcrum of opposition in the state, to declare Maha Vikas Aghadi’s CM face for the November 20 assembly elections. On the issue of ruling Mahayuti‘s CM face, Fadnavis hinted at Shiv Sena‘s Eknath Shinde but evaded…
