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Ajit Pawar's party inducts three former corporators from BJP EVEN as Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was busy conducting interviews of aspirants for the PCMC polls and inducting former corporators including those from the BJP, the NCP on Tuesday denied speculations of a tie-up with Sharad Pawar's party for which it has got the green signal from the BJP. "We did meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The issue of any tie-up did not come up... How can that issue even come up? We discussed only way ...Read More >
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said Mahayuti partners BJP and Shiv Sena will contest together in most municipal corporation elections on Jan 15. This includes Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan Dombivli. However, in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, the BJP and Shiv Sena will have friendly fights with the NCP.Speculations about all three Mahayuti partners going solo in the municipal corporation where each is dominant have now been laid to rest."We are trying to form a Mahayuti alliance in most ...Read More >
Mumbai, December 17: Shiv Sena-UBT (SS-UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said that seat-sharing between the SS-UBT and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls will be announced in the next two days, adding that there is no discord or confusion between the two parties. Speaking to the press, Raut confirmed that discussions for key municipal corporations, including Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli, Pune, and Nashik, are nearly complete, with an official ann ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has declared its strong resolve to unfurl the saffron flag atop the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in the upcoming civil polls, has stepped up its attack on the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, claiming that the Marathi Manoos has chosen an auspicious moment to defeat the party and end its 25-year rule in the civic body. Maharashtra Minister for Cultural Affairs and BJP in-charge of the BMC elections, Ashish Shelar, took to X ...Read More >
Elections for Maharashtra's civic bodies, pending since 2022, will finally be held on January 15. Elections will be held for 29 municipal corporations, 32 district councils, and 336 panchayat samitis. The votes will be counted the next day. Here are the top 10 points in this big story: * Politically, elections for the Brihanmumbai Corporation and other major cities like Pune and Thane are considered the most important, since they are expected to determine the political direction of the state. ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 15 (PTI) The Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Monday questioned the logic behind holding elections to 29 civic bodies without correcting "irregularities" in the voters' roll. Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray said the final rolls have not been released yet. "If there are mistakes in the final rolls, who will address them?" he asked. Polls for 29 municipal corporations, including the cash-rich Mumbai, will be held on January 15, and votes will be counted ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], December 15 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday expressed confidence in Mahayuti's victory in the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections next month. Speaking to reporters in Pune, CM Fadnavis said that, given the government's work, people will vote for Maharashtra's ruling alliance. Also Read | MGNREGA Renaming: Shashi Tharoor Says Controversy Over Renaming MGNREGA in Modi Government's Proposed New G-RAM-G Bill Is Unfortunate ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: After a delay of nearly three years, the State Election Commission has finally announced dates for Maharashtra's long-pending civic body elections, which have been overdue since 2022. Polling will be held on January 15 for 29 municipal corporations, 32 zilla parishads and 336 panchayat samitis, with results scheduled for January 16.The elections to key urban bodies such as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Pune and Thane are being seen as more than routine local contests, ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 15 (ANI): The polling for the elections for 29 Municipal Corporations in Maharashtra, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), will be held on January 15, with the results to be announced on January 16, the State Election Commission said on Monday. From December 23 to 30 is the period to file nominations, and scrutiny of the nominations will be done on December 31. January 2 is the last date to take back nominations, as the symbols will be d ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Congress party's Mumbai unit announced that it is preparing to contest the Mumbai Municipal Corporation election on its own strength and is set to field candidates on all 227 seats. This announcement comes day after the Congress Party faced defeat in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025. With the stance to run solo, there is also a sign of a possible strain within the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). The announcement by the Mumbai Congress was made during the one-day 'Lakshya 2026' camp that w ...Read More >
Mumbai, Nov 4 (PTI) The Maharashtra Congress on Tuesday said the Election Commission should take immediate cognisance of the demand of the Opposition parties to rectify "irregularities" in the voters' lists ahead of the local body polls, citing that leaders from the ruling dispensation had made similar claims. Maharashtra Congress general secretary Sachin Sawant said political parties are an essential part of democracy, and the electoral process is incomplete without them. "When all Opposition ...Read More >
MNS president Raj Thackeray has stepped up his campaign against ECI over duplicate and bogus voters. Initially, it appeared that he was alone in his battle but now, major opposition parties in the state have joined him. Unexpectedly, he has found support from Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Balasaheb Thorat and Supriya Sule.Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was the first to raise his voice against bogus and duplicate voters. He was followed by Thorat, who brought to ECI's notice such voters in his assemb ...Read More >
Mumbai, Nov 3 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said local body polls in Maharashtra must be held only after the electoral rolls are cleaned up. He also refuted the ruling BJP's allegation of "appeasement politics" with regards to voters list irregularities and said the Shiv Sena (UBT) and other Opposition party have not referred to any bogus voter by religion. Addressing a press conference, Thackeray alleged the Election Commission and the Union government were "scared of ...Read More >
Top leaders of Maha Vikas Aghadi, including Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray, Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar head Sharad Pawar along with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray, will lead the Opposition's November 1 protest march in Mumbai against alleged irregularities in voters' lists. IMAGE: MNS chief Raj Thackeray speaks during a press conference on discrepancies in the voters' list in Mumbai on Wednesday. Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Tha ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 30 (PTI) Top leaders of Maha Vikas Aghadi, including Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, NCP (SP) head Sharad Pawar along with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray, will lead the Opposition's November 1 protest march in Mumbai against alleged irregularities in voters' lists. The Thackeray cousins, warming up to each other after years of political estrangement, and Pawar held a meeting at the Y B Chavan here on Thursday to finalise the nitty-gritty of the grand join ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Amid the ongoing tussle between the BJP and Shiv Sena before the civic polls in Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde paid a visit to New Delhi to meet PM Narendra Modi. The deputy CM maintained that he had gone to convey Diwali greetings and discuss certain infra projects but his visit is significant, coming as it does amid the dispute between the two ruling parties over seat-sharing in Mumbai, Thane and other civic bodies and the war of words unleashed by politicians from both parties against eac ...Read More >
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut has claimed that Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, during his time in the undivided Shiv Sena, had attempted to bring Uddhav and Raj Thackeray together. Shinde believed that a rapprochement between the Thackeray cousins was essential to counter the BJP's growing influence, Raut claimed. "In order to bring two cousins together, Shinde along with Pratap Sarnaik (now a Shiv Sena minister) had gone to meet Raj Thackeray 10-12 years ago witho ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 26 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed that when Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde was part of the undivided Shiv Sena, he had urged him to work for rapprochement between cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray to "stop" the BJP. In his weekly column 'Rokthok' in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana', Raut said Shinde is unhappy now that the Thackeray cousins have come together. Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) ...Read More >
Party eyes seats vacated by those who defected to Eknath ShindeAs Mumbai inches closer to civic polls, Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) is preparing to stake claim over several wards that were once strongholds of the undivided Shiv Sena, but later shifted loyalty to Eknath Shinde's faction. According to MNS functionaries, discussions are underway to finalise a list of wards the party will demand during seat-sharing negotiations. "We are identifying wards where corporators from ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena (UBT) took a dig at chief minister Devendra Fadnavis after revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule gave a statement warning BJP workers that their mobile phones and WhatsApp groups are "under surveillance". An editorial in Saamna, the party mouthpiece, said Bawankule is an important member of 'Team Devendra'. Therefore, the statement he made regarding phone tapping cannot be left to chance. "Devendra has made more enemies within the party. Fadnavis is not in home minister ...Read More >
Nagpur: With the state's local body elections approaching fast, cracks appear to be widening within the Mahayuti alliance as indications emerge that the BJP and Ajit Pawar-led NCP may not contest together in several districts, including Nagpur. A local NCP leader reportedly urged deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar to join forces with his uncle Sharad Pawar's NCP faction to 'show BJP its strength' rather than be sidelined in the seat-sharing process. "All indications suggest that the BJP is unlikel ...Read More >
NAGPUR/MUMBAI: Senior BJP leader and state revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule has kicked up a controversy after claiming in a party meeting that the mobile phones and WhatsApp activities of BJP workers are under surveillance ahead of the upcoming local body elections. Demanding Bawankule's arrest, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut alleged that the phones of opposition leaders and ruling alliance partners too were being tapped by the BJP. Addressing party workers in Bhandara on Thursday, Baw ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The resistance within the Congress to joining hands with the Thackeray cousins for the BMC polls is growing more strident. In the latest instance, former Mumbai Congress president Bhai Jagtap declared that the party should contest the polls alone not only in Mumbai but in other cities as well. "We should go solo," he said. "This is not my stand alone. Several others are of the same opinion, and this was conveyed during the political affairs committee meeting of the party on October 13. ...Read More >
Mumbai: Expressing confidence that BJP on its own would cross the 100-seat mark in the 227-strong BMC in the upcoming civic elections, CM Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said the party won't stake claim to the mayor's post simply on the basis of strength. "I shall not insist that the mayor is from BJP even if we have the numbers. The mayor could be from the [Eknath] Shinde group," he said.He said BJP will form an alliance with Shiv Sena in four of the nine municipal corporations in Mumbai Metropol ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The resistance within the Congress to joining hands with the Thackeray cousins for the BMC polls is growing more strident. In the latest instance, former Mumbai Congress president Bhai Jagtap declared that the party should contest the polls alone not only in Mumbai but in other cities as well. "We should go solo," he said. "This is not my stand alone. Several others are of the same opinion, and this was conveyed during the political affairs committee meeting of the party on October 13. ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 23 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday emphasised on Opposition unity and need to defeat the BJP in the upcoming civic polls in Maharashtra as he asked the Marathi leadership in the Congress to see the "impending danger" to Mumbai and "save" the city. Raut's comments came after Congress MLC Bhai Jagtap's remarks that the Grand Old Party will not ally either with the Shiv Sena (UBT) or the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for the Mumbai civic polls. Th ...Read More >
Speaking to the media during a Diwali interaction at his official residence 'Varsha' in Mumbai, CM Fadnavis also took aim at the Opposition over concerns regarding the electoral rolls. "As far as I know my party... Delhi is still far away. I will continue as Maharashtra CM till 2029," CM Fadnavis said, brushing off speculation about a possible move to national politics, the PTI reported. CM Fadnavis stated that the existing coalition of the BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar's NC ...Read More >
Raj Thackeray, MNS chief, claims 96 lakh fake voters are on Maharashtra's electoral rolls. He challenges the Election Commission to clean the lists before local body polls. Thackeray alleges this is an attempt to finish regional parties and fix election outcomes. He urges party workers to verify voter lists. The State Election Commission states voter lists are managed securely. MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday alleged that 96 lakh fake voters have been added to Maharashtra's electoral rolls an ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior Congress leader and former Mumbai president Bhai Jagtap on Wednesday said that the Congress will not ally with Raj Thackeray or even Uddhav Thackeray in the coming civic polls in Mumbai. Mr. Jagtap said almost all Congress workers expressed the same view in a meeting with party's Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala. Mr. Jagtap said, "This is a battle of grassroots workers. I have said that we should contest alone. I am not the only person with this stance in the party; our P ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) Amid buzz over a possible alliance, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday visited the residence of his cousin and MNS president Raj Thackeray in their fourth meeting this month. A Sena (UBT) functionary said Uddhav visited 'Shivtirth' to greet his aunt and Raj's mother Kunda Thackeray on her birthday. This was the eighth interaction between the Thackeray cousins, once bitter rivals, since they came together in July to oppose the Maharashtra government's decis ...Read More >
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