Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis gave all credit to Prime Minister Modi and fellow Nagpurian Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari for the victory in the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections.
Ajit Pawar-led NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal on Monday said Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis assured him of OBC representation in the cabinet.
The six-day winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly, which ended on Saturday ,has gone down in the annals of India's and Maharashtra's political history as unprecedented as not a single BJP-dominated Mahayuti minister's portfolio was announced even as the session ended.
As many as 25,202 public charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) have been installed in the country to date, the government said on Friday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday announced that senior Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) official Akhikesh Shukla whose goons allegedly assaulted his Maharashtrian neighbours with iron rods in a suburban Kalyan-based housing society, has been suspended with immediate effect.
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance crossed the halfway mark at 10 am leading in 172 seats so far, while the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance is trailing with 47 seats as per trends by the Elections Commission of India.
As counting of the votes for assembly polls is underway, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla said that the BJP-led NDA alliance will form the government in both Maharashtra and Jharkhand under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.
Counting across all the centres in Maharashtra and Jharkhand will begin at 8 am, an Election Commission official said. The counting of postal ballots will begin first, he added.
Congress on Friday appointed three observers, including former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel for Maharashtra, and senior party leader Tariq Anwar and two others for Jharkhand to oversee the post-election scenario in both the states.
As Maharashtra votes to elect a new government, the BJP has escalated its allegations against NCP-SCP leader Supriya Sule, accusing her of channeling proceeds from the alleged bitcoin scam into the assembly elections.
