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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 >
NEW DELHI: Senior NCP (SP) leaders, including party chief Sharad Pawar, Supriya Sule, and Rohit Pawar, on Thursday appealed to the Congress to withdraw its candidate against NCP president and Maharashtra deputy CM Sunetra Pawar in the Baramati assembly bypoll.The bypoll was necessitated by the death of then Maharashtra deputy CM and NCP chief Ajit Pawar in a plane crash in January. He had held the Baramati seat -- a Pawar family stronghold since the 1960s -- winning it consecutively since 1991.S ...Read More >
Mumbai, Maharashtra: On April 6, Deputy CM of Maharashtra Sunetra Pawar filed her nomination for the Baramati by-poll elections. After the death of Ajit Pawar, his wife and now Deputy CM of Maharashtra has taken charge of the vacant post and also as the President of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - Ajit Pawar faction. But now, Maharashtra politics seem to be getting dirty as the Baramati by-poll election is round the corner. Elections that were supposed to be unopposed, it took a sharp tur ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 7 (PTI) Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Tuesday termed as unnecessary the controversy surrounding his party's decision to field a candidate for the Baramati by-election against Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar. Talking to reporters here, he said that there was no need for creating a controversy over candidates or party positions. Sunetra Pawar, who heads the ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), is contesting the April 23 by-election to Baramati, necessi ...Read More >
Pune, Apr 7 (PTI) NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Tuesday termed as "inappropriate" the remarks made by NCP leader Parth Pawar about Congress' "downfall" in Maharashtra, and called for a dialogue to ensure that the Baramati by-election goes unopposed. He stressed the need to remain grounded irrespective of whether one is in power or is part of the Opposition. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Sunetra Pawar is contesting the April 23 bypoll to the Baramati assembly seat, which was ...Read More >
Rahuri, April 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) State President, Shashikant Shinde, on Monday announced Govind Mokate as the party's candidate for the Rahuri Assembly seat. The development is an embarrassment for the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), especially for the NCP‑SP, as its probable candidate and former Minister Prajakt Tanpure backed out of the race at the last moment and went into hiding after meeting State BJP chief Ravindra Chavan. The by ...Read More >
Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday slammed the Congress's attitude towards alliance partners in Maharashtra, saying it should keep them together if it wants to return to power at the Centre. An editorial in the party's mouthpiece, Saamana, called the Congress's stance of maintaining distance from the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners on certain issues narrow-minded. It took exception to Maharashtra Congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal expressing reservations about the Nationalist Congress Party - Sh ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Congress's decision to field Akash More against Sunetra Pawar in the Baramati bypoll has exposed fresh cracks within the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Monday attacked the grand old party saying the Baramati result is a foregone conclusion. However, the Congress slammed Raut saying statements made through party platforms should not create confusion within the alliance. "Baramati is the Pawar family's stronghold and everyone knows what the outcome ther ...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 >
New Delhi, April 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nationalist Congress Party-SP president Sharad Pawar on Monday said that the Pawar family decided not to contest the Baramati by-election out of grief over the untimely demise of Ajit Pawar, but refrained from criticising the Congress for choosing to contest the bypoll. Speaking to reporters in Delhi after taking oath as a Rajya Sabha member, Pawar noted that while the Congress party has decided to field a candidate in Baramati, it is within its right to do s ...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 >
While regional heavyweights of the MVA - Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) - agreed to step aside, Congress defiantly fielded state secretary Akash More, sparking an internal crisis The upcoming Baramati bypoll in Maharashtra has exposed cracks in the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SP), and Congress. The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is publicly feuding over the Congress move to field a candidate against Sunetra Pawar, who is the widow of late deputy chief minister Ajit ...Read More >
Pune, Apr 6 (PTI) NCP leader Parth Pawar on Monday said he would not speak to anyone with regards to unopposed Baramati assembly bypoll being contested by his mother and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar, and asserted the Congress, which has fielded a candidate, will "suffer". The ruling Mahayuti had sought for unopposed elections as a mark of respect to Ajit Pawar, whose death in a plane crash on January 28 necessitated the bypoll. While the NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT), part of ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 6 (ANI): Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday extended his best wishes to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sunetra Pawar ahead of the Baramati Assembly bypoll, stating that the final decision on Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) support would be taken by party chief Uddhav Thackeray. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Raut said, "There are many political parties in Maharashtra. Best wishes to Sunetra Pawar. As Maha Vikas Aghadi, our party chief Ud ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Congress on Sunday dashed the NCP's hopes to secure an unopposed victory for deputy chief minister and party chief Sunetra Pawar in the Baramati assembly bypoll, announcing Akash More, a prominent Dhangar leader, as its candidate. The announcement was made late in the evening, after state Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal turned down Pawar's plea for support citing a policy decision by the party. "As Baramati has a significant number of Dhangar voters, the Congress wants to unite t ...Read More >
The Maharashtra Congress on Monday (April 6, 2026) said it will consider withdrawing from the Baramati assembly bypoll if a first information report (FIR) is registered in the plane crash that killed former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. State Congress spokesperson Atul Londhe, in a statement, rejected claims that the April 23 by-election should be held unopposed, and accused the BJP of adopting a "convenient" political stance. The Congress on Sunday (April 5, 2026) fielded its state unit s ...Read More >
Pune: The upcoming Baramati Assembly bye-election has taken a dramatic turn as the Congress party candidate Advocate Akash More, has placed a specific demand of an FIR being filed, before the Mahayuti government in exchange for withdrawing his nomination. Speaking to the media, More stated that he would only reconsider his candidacy if the Maharashtra government registers a formal First Information Report (FIR) and conducts a thorough investigation into the aircraft accident that led to Ajit Pa ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 6 (PTI) The Congress on Monday hit out at the Shiv Sena (UBT) over the latter's accusation that the grand old party was using regional outfits as "crutches", and not treating them as "equal stakeholders" in the Opposition alliance. Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant criticised the editorial in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana', alleging that the newspaper's executive editor, MP Sanjay Raut, appears confused on several occasions between his roles as a politician and jo ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Indian National Congress on Sunday announced Akash Vijayrao More as its candidate for the upcoming Baramati Assembly by-election, setting up a direct contest against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar. Who Is Akash More? More, currently serving as secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, has a political lineage. His father, Vijayrao More, was a former Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. A lawyer by profession, More had previously contested th ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Deputy CM and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar is set to file her nomination on Monday for the Baramati assembly byelection, the seat which was left vacant after her husband Ajit Pawar died in an aircrash in Jan.While NCP had been pushing for an unopposed election, Congress declared Akash More, son of former Congress MLC Vijayrao More, as its candidate for the seat on Sunday evening. This has revealed the divide within the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP) had already ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Congress on Sunday dashed the NCP's hopes to secure an unopposed victory for deputy chief minister and party chief Sunetra Pawar in the Baramati assembly bypoll, announcing Akash More, a prominent Dhangar leader, as its candidate. The announcement was made late in the evening, after state Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal turned down Pawar's plea for support citing a policy decision by the party. "As Baramati has a significant number of Dhangar voters, the Congress wants to unite t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 5 : The Congress on Sunday named Akash Vijayrao More as its candidate against Maharashtra ... New Delhi [India], April 5 : The Congress on Sunday named Akash Vijayrao More as its candidate against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar for the Baramati assembly by-election. Akash More is the secretary of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. His father, Vijayrao More, was a Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC). Earlier, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP San ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Congress on Sunday picked its state unit secretary Akash More against Maharashtra Deputy CM and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar for the Baramati assembly bypoll, a move indicating a rift in the opposition over fielding a candidate in a contest necessitated by Ajit Pawar's death. While the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) had announced it won't field a candidate against Sunetra as a mark of respect for her deceased husband, another Maha Vikas Aghadi member, the Shiv Sena (UBT) has also indicated it ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Congress has officially announced Akash More as its candidate for the upcoming Baramati Assembly by-election, setting up a direct contest against Sunetra Pawar. With this move, attempts to make the election uncontested have failed. Nomination and Strategy Akash More is expected to file his nomination on Monday. The party's decision is being seen as a strategic move, with Congress playing the "Dhangar card" in the constituency. Speaking after the announcement, More said the party i ...Read More >
Mumbai: The rift in the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) over contesting the by-election from Baramati Vidhan Sabha seat in Maharashtra finally came out open on Sunday. Just hours after the Sharad Pawar-led NCP officially announced that they will not field its nominee against Sunetra Pawar, its ally Congress announced Akash More as its candidate for the Baramati bypoll. Congress on Sunday announced that advocate Akash Vijayrao More will be its candidate for the Baramati seat. Akash More is th ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 5 (ANI): The Congress on Sunday named Akash Vijayrao More as its candidate against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar for the Baramati assembly by-election. Akash More is the secretary of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. His father, Vijayrao More, was a Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC). Earlier, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut refuted claims of any confusion within the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) regarding discussions on the upc ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 5 (PTI) The Congress on Sunday picked its state unit secretary Akash More against Maharashtra Deputy CM and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar for the Baramati assembly bypoll, a move indicating a rift in the opposition over fielding a candidate in a contest necessitated by Ajit Pawar's death. While the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) had announced it won't field a candidate against Sunetra as a mark of respect for her deceased husband, another Maha Vikas Aghadi member, the Shiv Sena (UBT) has also ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 5 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy CM and NCP president Sunetra Pawar on Sunday dialled state Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal and urged him to ensure an unopposed bypoll to the Baramati assembly segment, which she is contesting. However, sources in the Congress indicated that the party is in no mood to support her demand and that a party candidate will file nominations on the last day of submitting papers on Monday. A day earlier, Sunetra Pawar had sought Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Tha ...Read More >
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