In poll bound Maharashtra, BJP leader and the State's Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis lashed out at the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance for allegedly yielding to demands from the Ulema Council, a Muslim clerical body.
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.
Pro Tem Speaker Kalidas Kolambkar administered the oath of office to the newly-elected legislators of different political parties including ex-deputy chief minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar and Independents.
The order comes on a joint petition filed by the Shiv Sena, Congress, and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) against the decision of Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to invite the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form a government in the state.
While speaking to media NCP leader Nawab Malik said, "Our alliance will last for a long time. This is the start of BJPs end, it has become very arrogant."
'The mandate was for BJP because it won 70 percent seats out of all seats we contested,' he said.
BJP on Saturday made an unexpected comeback in Maharashtra, with some shrewd political moves as Nationalist Congress Party’s Ajit Pawar changed sides.
