Tag: Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra Ruling Coalition Leaders Meet Amit Shah Over Seat-Sharing Plan

October 19, 2024 admin

The ruling alliance is seeking to retain power in the Maharashtra Assembly polls. (File) New Delhi: The leaders from Mahayuti – the ruling coalition in Maharashtra – met Union Home Minister Amit Shah last night to discuss the seat-sharing plan ahead of the state Assembly elections scheduled next month. The late-night meeting between Mr Shah…

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Congress MLA Hiraman Bhika Khoskar Joins Ajit Pawar Faction Ahead Of 2024 Maharashtra Assembly Polls

October 15, 2024 admin

Mr Khoskar joined the NCP at Ajit Pawar’s residence in Mumbai Mumbai: Congress MLA from Igatpuri, Hiraman Bhika Khoskar, has joined the Ajit Pawar led-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), ahead of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra. Mr Khoskar and his supporters officially joined the NCP at Ajit Pawar’s residence in Mumbai on Monday. Deputy Chief Minister…

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On Seat Sharing, Maharashtra’s Ruling Alliance Nears Finishing Line: Sources

October 14, 2024 admin

New Delhi: The ruling alliance in Maharashtra has almost completed the knotty exercise of seat sharing, various leaders indicated off the record today. Sources in the BJP said the party will contest on 158 of the state’s 288 seats. It has offered 70 seats to Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and 50 to Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist…

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BJP vs Congress After Veteran Leader Baba Siddique Shot Dead In Mumbai

October 13, 2024 admin

Baba Siddique was shot dead outside his son’s Zeeshan’s office in Mumbai. New Delhi: After veteran NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was shot dead near his son’s office in Mumbai’s Bandra last night, a political slugfest has erupted over the killing between the ruling BJP and Opposition parties. While the BJP-led Maharashtra government…

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Sharad Pawar Faction Goes To Top Court For New Poll Symbols For Both NCPs

September 20, 2024 admin

Sharad Pawar founded NCP in 1999 with former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Sangma and Tariq Anwar (File) New Delhi: Ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections, veteran leader Sharad Pawar led faction moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking that both factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) be given new poll symbols. A bench of…

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Ajit Pawar On Why Leaving Family Was A MIstake

September 8, 2024 admin

Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has made another admission of his “mistake” in splitting the party and family — this time to stop a party leader’s daughter from crossing over to his uncle’s camp and contesting against her father. State minister Dharmarao Baba Atram’s daughter Bhagyashree is apparently ready to join the Sharad…

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Ajit Pawar Says Society Never Accepts Breaking One Own’s Family On Fielding Supriya Sule Sunetra Lok Sabha Polls

September 7, 2024 admin

“I have experienced the same and accepted my mistake,” he said (File) Gadchiroli: Noting that society doesn’t like rifts in families, NCP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said he had already admitted his mistake, an apparent reference to the electoral contest between his wife Sunetra and cousin Supriya Sule in recent Lok…

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Shiv Sena On Eknath Shinde’s Name Missing In Ads

September 6, 2024 admin

Videos have also been released in which the scheme’s beneficiaries were shown thanking Ajit Pawar. (File) Mumbai: Fissures have emerged in Maharashtra’s ruling Mahayuti over the ‘Ladki Bahin Yojana’ with a Shiv Sena minister raising objection against ally NCP and its president Ajit Pawar for “omitting” Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s name from advertisements and promotional…

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Ajit Pawar’s NCP To Lead Silent Protest Over Shivaji Statue Collapse

August 29, 2024 admin

The protest call by Ajit Pawar’s NCP is politically significant ahead of the Maharashtra polls Mumbai: In signs of rumblings within the ruling coalition in Maharashtra months before state polls, the NCP faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has condemned the collapse of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji and given the call for…

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NCP’s Nitin Patil, BJP’s Dhairyasheel Patil Elected To Rajya Sabha

August 27, 2024 admin

The NCP and the BJP are part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance. Mumbai: The Ajit Pawar-led NCP’s Nitin Patil and BJP’s Dhairyasheel Patil were on Monday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha on seats vacated by Piyush Goyal and Udayanraje Bhosale, both of whom won the recent Lok Sabha polls. While Mr Bhosale won…

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