The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi has finalised a seat-sharing formula for the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly Elections. As per the seat-sharing agreement, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena will contest around 90-95 seats in the state, while the Congress will contest 103-108 seats and Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP) will contest on around 80-85 seats. Other smaller parties, including Akhilesh…
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik has become a sore point for the already rickety Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra ahead of the assembly elections. While the BJP has repeatedly opposed his inclusion in the Mahayuti, Ajit Pawar has been adamant to back him up. Now, as the Maharashtra Assembly election date of November 20…
The BJP’s first list of candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections has caused quite a stir in the party. Several sitting MLAs and ticket aspirants found their names missing from the first list and made a beeline for Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis’s home in Mumbai. The BJP released its first list of 99 candidates…
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said the opposition alliance, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), arrived on a seat-sharing agreement on 210 of the 288 Maharashtra assembly seats. The statement from Shiv Sena (UBT) leader comes even as Congress Maharashtra chief Nana Patole said that the discussions had been completed on his party’s 96 seats….
The upcoming assembly election in Maharashtra is the state’s first since the Shiv Sena split in 2022. The split was spearheaded by Eknath Shinde, the incumbent chief minister and a long-time Shiv Sainik who is said to have parted ways with Uddhav Thackeray because the latter led the party into an “unnatural alliance” with the…
Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections 2024 will be held before November 26, 2024, the day when the term of the current Vidhan Sabha will end, according to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. After reviewing the poll preparedness in Maharashtra along with fellow Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and S S Sandhu, Kumar…
Mumbai: The Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) on Saturday announced its first list of 11 candidates, including a transgender, for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly polls. VBA president Prakash Ambedkar, who announced the candidates at a press conference here, said Shamibha Patil, a transgender from the Leva Patil community, will contest from Raver assembly seat in Jalgaon…
Mumbai: In signs of friction in the MVA over the chief minister’s post, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said ally Congress should understand his party’s contribution in increasing the grand old party’s tally in the Lok Sabha polls. He said if Congress leaders in Maharashtra assume that they are a big brother…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday renewed his attack on the Congress party over comments by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi during his recent trip to the US. Gandhi’s comments on RSS, BJP, and Sikhs drew huge ire from the saffron party. Addressing a public gathering during the ‘PM Vishwakarma’ programme in Wardha, Maharashtra, Modi…
Ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly election, NCP national president and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has broken his silence over the CM pick if the ruling Mahayuti alliance wins the polls. The NCP president said that he is keen to become the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. “Everyone wants their leader to be the Chief Minister….