Pune, June 2 (IANS) The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Tuesday staged a protest demanding the MSP for onion and blocked the Pune-Nashik Highway. The MVA further announced that they would continue to fight to ensure a MSP of Rs 3,000 per quintal for onions and to bring justice to the farmers who are struggling.”Farmers who have put in immense hard work and shed their blood and sweat to cultivate onions are now being forced to sell their produce at throwaway prices. Onions are not even fetching Rs 2 p…
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New Delhi/Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Maharashtra unit President and MP Sunil Tatkare on Thursday announced that all misunderstandings within the party have been resolved. He stated that party leaders and workers will soon embark on a joint statewide tour aimed at building a robust organisational structure and driving extensive expansion. Tatkare was addressing a press conference in Delhi.Regarding the party’s National Executive, Tatkare informed that the revised lette…
Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) A delegation of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Wednesday met Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer S. Chockalingam and demanded transparency in the conduct of the upcoming Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in the state. The opposition alliance demanded that the intensive booth-level drive be executed in a completely fair, transparent, and impartial manner to ensure that no genuine voters are disenfranchised.The memorandum consisted of 36 points, with the common th…
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 …
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, March 24 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Tuesday that the Legislature cannot assume the role of the Executive and directions given by the Legislature does not become the ultimate truth as action based on those directions will take place based on the ground reality. Chief Minister Fadnavis’ statement comes a day after the chaos and manhandling of Ministers during the Satara Zilla Parishad (ZP) presidential and vice-presidential elections triggered an uproar in …
Mumbai, March 9 (IANS) NCP-SP legislator Rohit Pawar, on Monday, made a series of allegations regarding the air crash incident involving Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and former NCP Chief late Ajit Pawar. He has called for a deeper investigation into whether the incident was a genuine accident or a deliberate attempt on the late NCP leader’s life.According to Rohit Pawar, visibility on the day of the accident was extremely poor, measuring only 3,000 metre. He claimed that the aircraft’s pilo…
Mumbai, March 6 (IANS) Former chief minister and Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday described the Maharashtra budget as a “mirage of development,” claiming it involves “setting off firecrackers on borrowed money” while the state’s financial condition remains dire. Uddhav Thackeray remarked that the budget focuses on schemes benefiting contractors, while offering common citizens an “elevated highway of lies.”He dismissed the farm loan waiver as a “false invitation,” stating that while…
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) The Maharashtra unit president of Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shashikant Shinde, on Saturday announced that the merger is a closed chapter now for the party as Ajit Pawar, who was negotiating it, is no more. “The decision regarding the merger of both parties was made while Ajit Dada was alive. Many people in his party are speaking about this. However, we have now closed this chapter. A narrative is being created that we are the ones pushing for this…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Maharashtra NCP (Ajit Pawar) President Sunil Tatkare, on Friday, criticised his counterpart and state chief of Sharad Pawar-led NCP Shashikant Shinde’s narrative that former Deputy Chief Minister late Ajit Pawar left the party due to “invisible powers” or “threats”. He also said that Shashikant Shinde’s write up in his party magazine in this regard was “irrelevant” and “factually incorrect”.Tatkare issued a stern warning, saying, “If Shinde continues to claim that Ajit D…