The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released its first list of 99 candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, including the name of the state's Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Siddique, a leader in Ajit Pawar's faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), was shot at near Nirmal Nagar in Bandra Saturday night.
Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Anand Dubey strongly condemned the shooting of Siddique and demanded the resignations of Fadnavis and CM Eknath Shinde.
The Maharashtra government will soon launch a scheme to facilitate additional income to farmers by selling surplus power generated by their solar pump sets.
Maharashtra has topped in attracting the highest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) during the first quarter of the current financial year 2024-2025.
However, former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis immediately rubbished the claims saying, 'No such major policy decision has been taken by him as CM' and termed the allegations as 'false'.
The Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ in its editorial took a swipe at Fadnavis again over the hush-hush ceremony in which he was sworn in as chief minister on November 23 but had to quit 80 hours later. It said the BJP has lost a face having mass appeal.
On the second day of the Maharashtra Assembly, Congress leader Nana Patole was elected as the new speaker of the assembly.
Maha Vikas Aghadi passes the floor test with total 169 votes in its favour.
The former Maharashtra Chief Minister said the state wants to know why the 'Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi' (MVA) of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress was 'scared' when it earlier claimed to have numbers to prove majority on the floor of the Assembly.
