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.
Shiv Sena further challenged BJP to prove majority in the assembly if they have sufficient numbers, without resorting delay tactics.
The protests were being held even as a hearing over the same was underway in the Supreme Court, where the court asked the Solicitor General to produce letters of support used by Fadnavis in staking claim to form the government.
Both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha have been adjourned till 2 pm following continued sloganeering by Opposition leaders over the shocking political development in Maharashtra.
NCP leader Nawab Malik said that the delegations have submitted support letters of a total 160 MLAs of the three parties to the Governor's office.
The three parties have put up their MLAs in hotels in order to guard vulnerable ones against being poached by the BJP and the NCP splinter group.
