He said that though Damania met Ajit Pawar late Monday evening and gave him some documents, but nobody asked him to resign. "I will not speak about resignation. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar will respond." Munde said.
In a move which would have a far-reaching impact on the automobile sector, the Maharashtra Government has a set up a seven-member committee to study the possibility of banning petrol and diesel vehicles in order to phase them out in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The MMR comprises Mumbai city as well as areas of neighbouring Thane, Raigad and Palghar districts, taking worsening air quality into account.
Maharashtra's Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Chandrakant Patil of the BJP, said in Sangli on Monday that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will ask Food & civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde of the Ajit Pawar led NCP to step down if any evidence against Munde is found linking him to the murder of Massajog village sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh of the BJP.
Shiv Sena (UBT) has unilaterally announced that the party will go solo in the upcoming nagar panchayat, nagar parishad, zilla parishad and municipal corporation elections. Party MP Sanjay Raut announced this here on Saturday.
Sarangi Mahajan, the wife of late Pravin Mahajan who was the brother of the BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, met NCP chief as well as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday, complaining to him about Food and Civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde grabbing her land.
BJP MLA Suresh Dhas has made a sensational allegation that a meeting to discuss an extortion deal in Beed was held between Maharashtra food and Civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde's associate Valmik Karad and officials of a power company at Munde's official residence in the Beed district, in June 2024.
The mobile phone recovered from Valmik Karad has added fuel to the controversy. "A case under Section 302 for murder will not be registered against Karad at all because his godfather is in power. I have exposed the chats to show the extent of these links," said Jitendra Awhad on Wednesday.
The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena's Lok Sabha MP, Shrikant Eknath Shinde, happens to be a part of the Joint Parliamentary Committee tasked with studying the 'One Nation One Election' bill for simultaneous polls. The committee will be asked to submit its report during the budget session.
Incidentally, there has been intense political speculation about what disgruntled OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal's next move would be and whether he would join the BJP which is keen to have an OBC face. Bhujbal had refused to say whether he would join the BJP even after media persons asked him about it.
Even after three weeks of intense and hectic negotiations and lobbying as well as the intervention of the BJP's top brass in Delhi, sources said on Saturday evening that the list of Maharashtra's cabinet ministers and ministers of state is yet to be finalised and will be given "final touches" only by Sunday morning.
