NEW DELHI: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is facing internal tensions after Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) president Sharad Pawar felicitated Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde at an event in Delhi. The move has not gone down well with the Shiv Sena (UBT), with senior party leader Sanjay Raut strongly criticising Pawar for…
MUMBAI: Political circles were abuzz with speculation about Shiv Sena (UBT) and BJP coming together after BJP minister Chandrakant Patil told Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday that he was waiting for the “golden moment” when the two parties would ally again.Patil met Uddhav at the wedding reception of BJP MLA Parag Alavani’s daughter….
NEW DELHI: Months after the Maharashtra assembly elections, the Sena vs Sena fight continued as Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray held separate events in a show of strength on the birth anniversary of Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray. Addressing a rally in Mumbai, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde said, “The ideals of Balasaheb Thackeray…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday directed his target on opposition leaders Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray during a BJP state convention held in Maharashtra’s Shirdi. Addressing party workers, Shah termed BJP’s victory in the recent Maharashtra assembly polls the end of “politics of betrayal.”“This victory in Maharashtra has several meanings. It…
BJP and Congress should move beyond debates over Nehru and Savarkar, and focus on growth issues, Uddhav Thackeray said. NAGPUR: In his bid to reclaim the hardline Hindutva turf after being accused of abandoning the party’s core ideology, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday questioned BJP on why the nation’s highest civilian honour,…
Railways halts razing of unauthorised temples MUMBAI: Central Railway (CR) on Saturday stayed demolition of five unauthorised temples outside Dadar station amid escalating opposition from Sena UBT, later leading to protests from BJP members as well.Sena UBT criticised the demolition notices soon after they were issued on December 4. On Friday, party chief Uddhav Thackeray…
NEW DELHI: Tensions within Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) continue to simmer, with Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Aaditya Thackeray hitting out at the Maharashtra unit of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and its chief, Abu Azmi, for the intention to withdraw from the alliance over “Hindutva credentials.”“Our Hindutva is about ‘hriday mein Ram aur haath ko kaam’ (Ram…
Eknath Shinde (left), and Ajit Pawar NEW DELHI: Maharashtra’s caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday took a cheeky dig at his ally Ajit Pawar – reminding the NCP chief of an early-morning oath as deputy chief minister in 2019 for a stint that lasted just 4 days.In 2019, when the undivided Shiv Sena of…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ambadas Danve on Thursday sharpened his attack on Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) ally Congress, claiming the party became “overconfident after the Lok Sabha elections”. Danve said the MVA would have performed better had they announced Uddhav Thackeray its CM candidate for the Maharashtra elections in which the bloc faced…
MUMBAI: Following the drubbing in the Maharashtra assembly polls, cracks have started appearing in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance as Shiv Sena (UBT)’s newly elected MLAs and functionaries have urged party chief Uddhav Thackeray to contest civic and local bodies elections independently, at least in cities where the party was a dominant force until…
