Mumbai, June 23 (IANS) Days after dealing a major political blow to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) by engineering the defection of six Lok Sabha MPs, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief leader Eknath Shinde on Tuesday in the state Assembly dropped a fresh bombshell, hinting that more political earthquakes are on the horizon.Referring to the defection of the six parliamentarians as part of Operation Tiger, Shinde stated that the political realignment is far from over. …
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Mumbai, June 21 (IANS) On the eve of the Maharashtra Legislature’s Monsoon Session, the opposition coalition, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), on Sunday announced a boycott of the traditional high-tea meeting hosted by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. A three-week monsoon session will begin on Monday and will conclude on July 10.In a strongly worded letter addressed to the Chief Minister, senior MVA leaders, including Jayant Patil, Jitendra Awhad, Bhaskar Jadhav, Satej Patil, Anil Parab, Ambadas Danve…
Sangli, May 28 (IANS) In light of the prevailing economic hardships, senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (SP) and former State Finance Minister, Jayant Patil, on Thursday urged the Maharashtra government to prioritise public interest by immediately waiving the Value Added Tax (VAT) and surcharges on petrol and diesel. Patil made this demand through an official letter addressed to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.Expressing deep concern over the situation, Patil stated that the contin…
Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) Maharashtra NCP-SP President Shashikant Shinde on Wednesday firmly squashed the rumours of a reconciliation, reunification or merger with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP faction. He said that the question of a merger is entirely closed and that no such discussions are on the table.”There is absolutely no discussion regarding a merger. The topic is completely over,” he added.During a high-level meeting of the NCP-SP faction on Wednesday, the party leadership explicitly ruled out any …
Mumbai, May 14 (IANS) Ruling and opposition parties, along with various farmer organisations in Maharashtra, on Thursday strongly demanded the rollback of the Centre’s move to impose a ban on sugar exports.They claimed that the export ban would further worsen the financial condition of cooperative sugar factories, making it difficult for them to withstand the current situation.Veteran NCP leader and former state Cooperation Minister Dilip Walse-Patil said: “Even though there has been bumper …
Mumbai, May 12 (IANS) Amid political turmoil in the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar Group) after veteran heavyweights were sidelined in favour of the next generation of the Pawar family in the national executive, party Member of Parliament Sunil Tatkare on Tuesday evening met Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) President Sharad Pawar at the latter’s residence, Silver Oak. Tatkare clarified that the meeting was not political and was intended solely to check on the senior leader’…
Baramati, April 21 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) working president and Member of Parliament, Supriya Sule, on Tuesday broke down while remembering her brother and former Deputy Chief Minister, the late Ajit Pawar. Addressing the crowd in support of Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar at the concluding campaign rally for the by-poll scheduled for April 23, Sule expressed the family’s deep personal pain over the loss. She said she had come to request everyone t…
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) NCP (SP) MLA Jayant Patil, in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, opposed the proposed sale of the seed strain of DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) vaccines to a private company and urged the government to immediately withdraw the move. In his letter, Patil said the Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation plays a significant role in vaccination and has the capacity to produce DPT vaccines. He termed the seed strain a rare and invaluable b…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) 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 so.When asked…
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) In a blistering verbal offensive, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Maharashtra state president and MP Sunil Tatkare on Wednesday took aim at political rivals attempting to interfere in party affairs while terming them as “scavengers” driven by a sinister desire to seize control.Tatkare was responding the statement made by NCP SP legislator Rohit Pawar today that against Sunil Tatkare and Praful Patel made an attempt to seize control of the Nationalist Congress Party (AP) …