The Rajya Sabha elections for six seats in Maharashtra could go uncontested as the BJP has nominated only three candidates for the polls — Chavan, Medha Kulkarni, and Dr Ajeet Gopchade.
BJP chief Jagat Prakash Nadda, along with Govindbhai Dholakia, Mayanakbhai Nayak, and Dr. Jashvantsinh Salamsinh, will fight from Gujarat while Chavan will contest from Maharashtra.
Chavan is the third big exit from the Maharashtra Congress after former South Mumbai MP Milind Deora and MLA Baba Siddique left the party.
The senior leader of the Congress, through a letter to the party’s Maharashtra unit chief Nana Patole, announced his resignation from the party’s primary membership.
Last month as well, there were speculations of a rift between the ruling allies in the MVA so Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had called a meeting with the alliance partners on May 27, a day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had said that his party is 'not a key player' in running Maharashtra government.
He was in Nanded when he tested positive for the infection last month and was brought to Mumbai for treatment.
The Shiv Sena in its editorial recalled that after the 2014 polls, NCP leader Praful Patel offered his party's support to the BJP.
Congress slammed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for giving media interviews to celebrate his government's four years in power (on October 31), asking him to personally supervise relief work for the drought-affected regions.
The Congress party in the state demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on moral grounds for failing to…
The Adarsh Housing Society, built on defence land in posh Colaba area of Mumbai, is a 31-storey building which was…
