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Mumbai: Devendra Fadnavis, the Chief Minister elect of Maharashtra, has met Governor CP Radhakrishnan and staked claim to form government, two weeks after the assembly election results were declared. He was accompanied by allies Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar. The meeting comes shortly after the BJP ended the long-drawn suspense over the Chief Minister post,…
Ajit Pawar’s NCP, meanwhile, has demanded a share equal to that of the Shinde faction. Mumbai: Two days ahead of the oath ceremony of the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the ruling alliance is yet to announce the name of the incumbent. Sources, though, say a formula has been arrived at for the division of…
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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: Nagpur South West is the constituency of Devendra Fadnavis. The demand for naming Devendra Fadnavis as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra is growing. This time, posters have come up in Nagpur reinforcing the demand and the people who put it up includes an MLA from the Eknath Shinde faction of the…
Maharashtra Assembly Election Results 2024: BJP-led Mahayuti vs Congress’ MVA (File). New Delhi: The ruling Mahayuti sailed past the majority mark – 145 – in early leads as counting began Saturday for the Maharashtra Assembly election. The alliance – fronted by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party factions led by…
New Delhi: Voting for the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election may be over – the single-phase poll was held Wednesday – but verbal jousting betwixt the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi rumbles on, with each hotly disputing last night’s exit polls and proclaiming grand wins for their parties. Five of nine exit polls…
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Poll percentage figures are provisional and may undergo minor revisions. (Representational) Mumbai: An estimated 65 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the Maharashtra assembly elections on Wednesday, where the ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance is making a determined bid to retain power and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition is hoping to continue its…
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New Delhi: Maharashtra’s Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi will form the state’s next government and its Chief Minister will take oath on November 25, Congress’s state unit chief Nana Patole told NDTV today. Asked about the exit polls, which have predicted either an NDA victory or a hung house, he told NDTV in an exclusive interview,…
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Voters at a polling booth in Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra Mumbai: Maharashtra’s urban pockets including assembly constituencies in Mumbai reported low voter turnout, despite Mumbai being the biggest city in the state and the country’s financial and entertainment hub. The turnout this time is only 1 per cent higher than in 2019, which was 48.4…
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Maharashtra assembly elections are taking place in a single phase today. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) and BSE will remain closed today, due to the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Trading across all segments, including equity, equity derivatives and the securities lending and borrowing (SLB) segment, will be suspended for the day as voters head to the…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress and ally Sharad Pawar’s faction of Nationalist Congress Party have been hit by corruption allegations on the eve of the crucial state elections. A retired police officer, Ravindranath Patil, has accused Mr Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule and state Congress chief Nana Patole of being involved in a fraud case involving cryptocurrency…
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