Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) In a scathing attack on administrative lethargy, BJP legislator Sudhir Mungantiwar on Tuesday expressed intense fury in the Legislative Assembly over excessive delays in responses to suggestions made by members through various parliamentary tools. Highlighting a glaring example of red tape, Mungantiwar revealed that a Cut Motion he moved on March 16, 2022, received a response only on February 18, 2026, almost four years later.Expressing his dissatisfaction with the pace of …
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Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), including Vijay Wadettiwar, Bhaskar Jadhav, and Aaditya Thackeray, on Sunday announced a unanimous decision to boycott the customary tea meeting convened by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on the eve of the Budget Session of the Maharashtra Legislature, which begins on Monday.The opposition leaders said their decision to boycott the traditional tea meeting was aimed at protesting against alleged corruption in the government, its apat…
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) The Maharashtra Congress has decided to form an inquiry committee into the party’s fiasco at Chandrapur, where, despite emerging as the single largest party in the municipal corporation elections, it failed to win the Mayoral election, resulting in Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory. The political affairs committee of the party’s state unit on Wednesday held a meeting in Mumbai to discuss the way forward. The issue of Congress losing the Mayoral election to the BJP in Chandra…
Mumbai, Feb 12 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray faction on Thursday voiced strong displeasure over recent developments in Chandrapur, where some party corporators extended support to the Bharatiya Janata Party in the mayoral election. Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Sanjay Raut has made it clear that party chief Uddhav Thackeray had issued explicit instructions against any understanding with the BJP and described the move as a “betrayal” of the party’s long political struggl…
Mumbai, Feb 10 (IANS) Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Tuesday accused the BJP of horse trading in winning the mayoral election in the Chandrapur Municipal Corporation. However, he took a serious objection to the Shiv Sena, a constituent of the Maha Vikas Aghadi and INDIA Alliance to support the BJP instead of Congress in the mayoral poll. Sapkal said AIMIM remained neutral and thereby helped the BJP.“As councillors of our new ally, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, remained abs…
Chandrapur (Maharashtra), Feb 10 (IANS) In a major political development, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday secured the Mayor’s post in the Chandrapur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra after six corporators from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) supported the party, defying the official party line.The election of Sangeeta Khandekar as Mayor is a setback for the Congress, which had emerged as the single largest party in the recent civic polls but fell short of the top post b…
Mumbai, Feb 4 (IANS) Amid infighting between two groups of Congress, the central leadership on Wednesday finally intervened to achieve consensus on installing the party’s mayor in the Chandrapur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra. As per the directions issued by the central leadership of the party, Congress’s Chandrapur Lok Sabha MP Pratibha Dhanorkar is set to have a final word on deciding the mayor, while the deputy mayor’s post will be given to the Congress legislative party leader Vija…
Mumbai, Feb 2 (IANS) Giving a new twist to the unfortunate and tragic demise of Ajit Pawar, the dada of Maharashtra politics, a couple of leaders from Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) cast fresh doubts over the plane crash that killed all five people onboard, including Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister. Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar said that more than 80 per cent people of Maharashtra felt that there was something suspicious in the plane accident. Further, smelling a rat in the plane crash, he q…
Nashik, Jan 27 (IANS) The Congress Legislative Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Tuesday condemned Guardian Minister Girish Mahajan for failing to mention Dr B.R. Ambedkar during his official address on Republic Day. He described the incident as a “stain on the progressive identity of Maharashtra”, saying that omitting the name of the Chief Architect of the Indian Constitution on the very day the nation celebrates the Republic is a “gross insult to both Dr Ambedkar and the democratic framework …
Nagpur, Jan 21 (IANS) Amid internal friction within the Congress following the Chandrapur Municipal Corporation elections, Congress Legislative Party leader in Maharashtra Assembly, Vijay Wadettiwar, on Wednesday said he was confident that the crisis would be resolved soon and that the party would secure the mayor’s post in the civic body.Responding to recent criticism by party MP Pratibha Dhanorkar, Wadettiwar addressed the controversy over ticket distribution and alleged that several corpora…