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, after the meeting, a late night tweet from the CMO Maharashtra said the CM and the deputy CM discussed various measures for rain-hit farmers.
It is to be noted that the NCP leader has also changed his bio on Twitter to Deputy Chief Minister, Maharashtra.
While it is still being speculated if Sharad Pawar knew of his nephew's moves, the NCP initiated a disciplinary action aginst Ajit Pawar at a party meeting where 42 out of 54 MLAs were present.
The occasion also enabled the BJP for the first time to give vent to its "agony and pain" over how its once all-weather ally in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena, and its political mouthpiece Saamana used language unbecoming of an alliance partner against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah and engaged in "match-fixing" for grabbing the "kursi" (chair) in the State.
In a parallel press conference jointly held by the NCP and the Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar said that the NCP leaders were cheated into attending the swearing-in ceremony of Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.
