Maharashtra Assembly Elections: In what could compound problems for the ruling Mahayuti alliance led by the BJP, Manoj Jarange Patil, the face of the Maratha reservation protest, has released a list of 28 names of “willing” candidates for 16 assembly seats in the Mumbai suburban and Mumbai City districts. There are a total of 36…
Maharashtra Assembly Elections: The second list of candidates of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena (UBT) has been released with 15 names. Former Mayor of Mumbai Shraddha Jadhav has been fielded from the Wadala Assembly constituency against eight-time MLA Kalidas Kolambkar of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Kolambkar was earlier in the Shiv Sena…
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…