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Nana Patole was speaking at NDTV Marathi’s Jahirnama event. Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole today said that he was “friends” with Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut amid reports of tension between the two allies. “I am friends with Sanjay Raut. I don’t understand why people create disputes between us,” said Mr Patole at NDTV…
Sanjay Raut denied any dispute among the Maha Vikas Aghadi constituents New Delhi: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said the party will “rise from the ashes like a phoenix” despite the now Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led split robbing the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena name and symbol and…
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The Congress announced its first list of 48 candidates for the coming Maharashtra election this evening – a day after the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi announced 85-85-85 seat share formula. The party has retained 25 sitting MLAs in the first list, which comprised all the confirmed, undisputed seats. The party’s state chief Nana Patole is contesting…
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Maharashtra’s Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi is apparently close to finalising the details of seat sharing for next month’s assembly elections. A key meeting is being held today, attended by senior leaders from both sides. The Congress and Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, who had been facing a deadlock over a handful of seats in…
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Mumbai, New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is among the heavyweight names in the BJP’s first list of candidates for the November 20 Maharashtra Assembly polls. The list, which was announced this afternoon, has 99 names. Maharashtra Assembly has 288 seats and the BJP is likely to contest nearly 160. The remaining seats are…
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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Mumbai: BJP icon VD Savarkar, a Chitpavan brahmin, not only was a non-vegetarian, “many say he even ate beef”, said Karnataka Health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao today, triggering off the next massive political controversy ahead of the assembly election in Maharashtra. He also said that Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was not a…
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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024: Ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will be a CM candidate (File). Mumbai: Seat-sharing – the stumbling block of many a political alliance – is in focus before the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election, with the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi expected to hold a second round of talks this week, to continue dividing the…
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Sharad Pawar wonders if his Z-plus security is an attempt to get “authentic information” about him Mumbai: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar has said that the Z-plus security cover accorded to him could be an arrangement to get “authentic information” about him as Maharashtra assembly polls are around the corner. The Centre on Wednesday accorded…
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