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Mumbai/Pune, Apr 9 (PTI) The Opposition Congress on Thursday opted out of the bypoll to the Baramati assembly seat in Maharashtra at the last moment, giving a virtual walkover to ruling NCP candidate and Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar though a contest will still take place as 22 other nominees remain in the fray. After initially appearing firm to contest the April 23 bypoll, necessitated due to the death of former Deputy Chief Minister and sitting Baramati MLA Ajit Pawar, the husband of Sunetra, the C ...Read More >
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Monday declared that he will not take part in deputy chief minister and NCP president Sunetra Pawar's campaign for the Baramati assembly by-elections. During a media interaction in New Delhi, the veteran leader said there was no need for him to campaign as his party has not fielded a candidate for the bypolls. He added that he took the decision as the head of the Pawar family and not as the NCP (SP) chief. The bypolls for the Ba ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a significant political development, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has officially announced its withdrawal from the upcoming Baramati Assembly by-election. State President Harshwardhan Sapkal confirmed the decision during a press conference on Thursday, the final day for the withdrawal of nominations. The bypoll, scheduled for April 23, was necessitated by the untimely and tragic demise of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. While Congress ...Read More >
Baramati: Speculation that the Baramati by-election would be unopposed has ended, as multiple candidates have entered the race against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) nominee and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar. A total of 55 candidates have filed 68 nomination papers, according to Election Officer Swapnil Rawade. Sunetra Pawar is also the wife of the late leader and former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Ajit Pawar's death in January prompted a by-election to th ...Read More >
Pune, Apr 6 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Sunetra Pawar on Monday vowed to carry forward her late husband Ajit Pawar's legacy of development as she filed nomination papers for the April 23 bypoll to the Baramati assembly seat in Pune district. She submitted the papers in the presence of her senior party colleagues Sunil Tatkare, Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dhananjay Munde and Hasan Mushrif as well as another Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, who heads the Shiv Sena, and BJ ...Read More >
PUNE: Deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar on Monday filed nomination for the Baramati bypoll, the traditional seat of the Pawar family, which is left vacant after Ajit Pawar's death in a plane crash on Jan 28 this year.Before filing her nomination in Baramati, Sunetra addressed a rally of NCP supporters wherein, in an emotional message to party workers, she said, "I never thought that a day would arrive where I would have to file nomination for the bypoll. It has been two months since Ajit dada ...Read More >
Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Monday filed her nomination for the Baramati Assembly by-election from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The bypoll is scheduled to be held on 23rd April. She submitted her nomination papers in the presence of senior leaders from the ruling Mahayuti alliance. Among those present were NCP's Sunil Tatkare, Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dhananjay Munde and Hasan Mushrif. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who leads the Shi ...Read More >
Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Sunetra Pawar on Monday filed her nomination papers for the April 23 Baramati assembly bypoll. She filed the papers in the presence of her party colleagues Sunil Tatkare, Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dhananjay Munde and Hasan Mushrif, as well as Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, who heads the Shiv Sena, and state minister and BJP leader Chandrashekhar Bawankule. The three parties comprise the ruling Mahayuti. Before filing her nomination papers, s ...Read More >
Pune, Apr 6 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Sunetra Pawar on Monday filed her nomination papers for the April 23 Baramati assembly bypoll. She filed the papers in the presence of her party colleagues Sunil Tatkare, Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dhananjay Munde and Hasan Mushrif as well as Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, who heads the Shiv Sena, and state minister and BJP leader Chandrashekhar Bawankule. The three parties comprise the ruling Mahayuti. Before filing her nominati ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Maharashtra Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president and Member of Parliament Sunil Tatkare on Tuesday addressed swirling rumours regarding the party's potential merger with the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, clarifying that while he was aware of the discussions, the context had changed entirely following Ajit Pawar's passing. In an interview with a Marathi channel, Tatkare said a merger between the two NCP factions was in its final stages before Ajit Pawar's death. ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 5 (PTI) The BJP-led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra on Friday completed one year in power, a period marked by a push for infrastructure expansion and an emphasis on investor confidence, as well as delicate balancing within the three-party coalition. While the ruling party leaders said the state saw governance with transparency and speedy decisions in the last one year, the opposition sought a "white paper" on the achievements, or the lack of it, of the Devendra Fadnavis dispensat ...Read More >
Chief Minister arrived in Phaltan and wasted no time in extending support to his ''friend'' Days after the suicide of a doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Sunday threw his weight behind a former BJP MP who has been accused by the Opposition of "pressuring" the doctor. The 29-year-old doctor's body was found in a hotel in Satara's Phaltan town. In a five-page letter, purportedly written by her before her death, she claimed to have been pressured by a forme ...Read More >
Police arrested a software engineer in Satara for abetment of suicide. A doctor named him and a police sub-inspector in her suicide note. The doctor was found hanging in a hotel room. Relatives allege harassment and pressure to alter medical reports. Political figures are also implicated. Investigations are ongoing into the death and the alleged involvement of others. Police on Saturday arrested a software engineer in connection with the alleged suicide of a 28-year-old woman doctor in Maharash ...Read More >
As tensions rise between Mahayuti partners Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of local body polls, senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and minister Chhagan Bhujbal launched a sharp attack on the BJP, warning it of electoral consequences if it failed to ensure justice for the Other Backwards Classes (OBC) community. Addressing an OBC Elgar Sabha in Beed, Bhujbal urged members of the community to "teach a lesson" to those who, according to him, had taken a stand again ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The OBC versus Maratha community tussle over reservation is heating up with OBC leader and NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Friday taking his own government to task for bending backwards for the Maratha community on reservations. "The Maratha community gets Rs 25,000 crore (under various state government schemes whereas the OBC community gets Rs 5,000 crore. Where is justice in this. For the Maratha community there are newer announcements (of govt schemes) almost every other day," said B ...Read More >
MUMBAI: After the Maratha and OBC (Other Backward Classes) clash, the similar pattern of friction brewing between the Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Banjaras has intensified, with numerous individual and collective protests on the part of the Banjara community aimed at getting inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category for reservation in education and jobs. On Saturday, a 32-year-old graduate from the community hanged himself at his residence at Umarga in Dharashiv. In his suicide note, the dec ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The state government seems to have unleashed a cascade of unforeseen demands by various groups after approving the Hyderabad Gazette as a valid document to prove Kunbi credentials of members of the Maratha community, which will allow their entry into the Other Backward Classes (OBC) community for the benefit of reservations. While it has led to a deep unrest among the OBCs, with veteran NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal spearheading the pushback fearing eligible Marathas' entry will impact the ...Read More >
Mumbai: Maharashtra Food and Civil Supplies Minister and senior OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal on Thursday assured that the sacrifice of Bharat Karad, a 35-year-old youth from Renapur taluka in Latur who ended his life fearing the loss of OBC reservations, would not go in vain. He vowed to fight with full strength to safeguard the community's quota and warned against any "encroachment" into OBC reservations. Bhujbal, accompanied by his NCP colleague and former minister Dhananjay Munde, visited Kara ...Read More >
Nagpur: The decision to shift agriculture minister and NCP(Ajit) MLA Manikrao Kokate on Thursday over 'rummy-in-the-House-row' and assigned sports and youth welfare, minority development and waqf portfolio, was taken jointly after a discussion with deputy chief ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, CM Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday. He termed it as a move to uphold accountability in governance. Kokate was shifted in the wake of growing public outrage over his conduct and controversial remark ...Read More >
Chennai, August 1: Actor, music director and producer G V Prakash Kumar, who has won the National Award for Best Music Direction (Songs) for the Tamil, Telugu bilingual film Vaathi, has called the honour "a blessing for the second time". Taking to his X timeline soon after the 71st National Awards were announced, G V Prakash expressed his gratitude to the jury and the selection committee of the National Awards and the entire team of Vaathi. G V Prakash wrote, "A blessing for the second time. I' ...Read More >
Mumbai: NCP minister Manikrao Kokate, who has repeatedly courted controversy with his remarks and recently drew criticism for allegedly playing a game of 'rummy' on his mobile phone in the state legislature, was let off by his party chief and deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Tuesday with a warning and censure. At the same time, CM Devendra Fadnavis spoke to all the ministers at and after Tuesday's meeting of the state cabinet and warned them against controversial actions and words, sources said.Kokate ha ...Read More >
Mumbai/Nagpur: Criticising the BJP-led Mahayuti govt's decision to assign the sports and youth welfare department to NCP MLA Manikrao Kokate over the 'rummy-in-the-House' controversy, the opposition on Friday said govt would now make rummy a state game and advocate for its inclusion in the Olympics.In the wake of growing public outrage over Kokate's conduct and controversial remarks, CM Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday changed his portfolio from agriculture to sports and youth welfare, minority dev ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday declared to form a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the alleged sexual harassment of a 17-year-old girl by two teachers from a coaching centre in Beed. A senior woman IPS officer will head the SIT, he said when he made the announcement in the state assembly on Tuesday. Several legislators raised the issue, suspecting there to be more victims and political intervention in the case. "Considering the scope and sensitivity of the case, we ...Read More >
MADURAI: Likening the custodial murder of Ajith Kumar in Tiruppuvanam to an 'organised crime by police where the state kills its own citizens,' Madras high court lambasted the Tamil Nadu police and said the action against the perpetrators should be more stringent than in normal murder cases.A division bench of Justice S M Subramaniam and Justice A D Maria Clete pointed to 44 external injuries on the person of Ajith Kumar and said no part of the body was spared by the delinquent cops. "Even an or ...Read More >
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday announced the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a woman IPS officer to investigate the sexual harassment case in Beed. "Considering the sensitivity of the case and the possibility of the harassment of more girls by the accused, the state has decided to form the SIT for a detailed and time-bound probe," Fadnavis said in the assembly on the second day of the monsoon session.Two teachers from a tuition centre were arrested in ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 1 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday announced a special investigation team (SIT), headed by a senior woman officer, to probe the alleged sexual harassment of a minor girl at a coaching class in Beed. NCP legislator Chetan Tupe raised the issue through a point of information in the state assembly. Also Read | Was Cockroach Really Found in Srisailam Temple Laddu? Andhra Pradesh Government Fact-Checks Fake Video Going Viral. Tupe said two people had been a ...Read More >
Bhopal: A search by the Meghalaya police in a flat of father-in-law of Shalom James, an Indore-based property dealer arrested on charges of destroying evidence in the killing of Raja Raghuvamsi allegedly by his wife Sonam during their honeymoon in Shillong last month, in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, has yielded a laptop, a pen drive, jewelry and incriminating documents, believed to be belonging to the couple, sources said on Monday. The search was conducted in the flat of Manoj Gupta, father-in-la ...Read More >
Former Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde on Monday said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) should probe the Beed coaching class sexual harassment case. Former Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde on Monday said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) should probe the Beed coaching class sexual harassment case. Talking to media in Beed, Dhananjay Munde alleged that one of the two persons arrested in the case had links with NCP (SP) MLA Sandip Kshirsagar. The latter denied the allegations, as per ...Read More >
Pune: The political landscape in Beed is once again heating up -- this time over the alleged sexual harassment of a NEET aspirant (17) by two teachers of a tuition centre.Though the Beed city police have arrested the two teachers after a case under Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) was registered against them, former minister and NCP politician Dhananjay Munde has accused local NCP (SP) MLA Sandeep Kshirsagar of trying to shield the duo. Munde wants chief minister Devendra ...Read More >
Mumbai, Feb 4 (PTI) Activist Anjali Damania on Tuesday alleged that there was a Rs 88 crore scam in the agriculture department when NCP leader Dhananjay Munde held the portfolio in the previous Mahayuti coalition government in Maharashtra. Munde, currently a minister for Food and Civil Supplies, termed her allegations as "baseless" and politically motivated. Despite the Union government's 2016 directive to transfer money directly to farmers' bank accounts under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), t ...Read More >
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