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.
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.
However, state party leaders say it is not yet clear how the four MLAs landed in Haryana, who took them or when, but all this would be thoroughly enquired by the party.
