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PM Modi in Assam (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, saying the country has placed its faith in the BJP for the past one-and-a-half years and that the party has been on a “continuous rise.”Hailing the major victories of the BJP, after a brief…
Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena on Saturday decided to shift all its 29 newly elected Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) corporators to a luxury hotel in Mumbai, in a highly unusual instance of “resort politics” being deployed in a civic body election. The move came despite the Sena and its ally, the BJP, securing a clear majority…
NEW DELHI: Alleging intimidation, coercion and unprecedented political pressure, Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday launched a scathing attack against the Mahayuti over the BMC elections, calling the January 15 civic polls a “strange” contest fought as a matter of political survival by his opponents.Addressing a press conference, Thackeray alleged that the ruling…
File photo: Congress leader Bhai Jagtap NEW DELHI: A day after the Congress recorded its lowest-ever tally in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, factional fault lines resurfaced in the party’s Mumbai unit, with a senior leader demanding the resignation of city president Varsha Gaikwad on moral grounds.Gaikwad has come under pressure after the Congress…
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray (File Photo) MUMBAI: In his first public address following the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray struck a defiant tone, saying the BJP “couldn’t finish off Shiv Sena on the ground” and “can’t buy loyalty despite employing all means.” Speaking to party workers in…
Thackeray cousins (PTI photo/File) Another page was added to India’s political history on Friday, capturing the event that will echo through the corridors of power and serve as a reminder that even a slight strategic misstep can unravel a hold on power built over decades.Having first lost the father-founded Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray has now…
‘Battle is not over’: Thackeray cousins 1st reaction on Mumbai BMC election result MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT), has issued its first reaction following the results of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, striking a defiant note and indicating that the political contest in Maharashtra is far from over.In a post on social media platform X…
MUMBAI: The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena dented the Sena (UBT)-MNS combine’s tally but failed to beat the Thackerays in most Marathi-dominated areas across Mumbai. Contesting 90 seats, Shinde has won 29, so his strike rate turned out to be poorer than that of BJP. However, his party’s seats are crucial to the BJP-Sena combine crossing…
MUMBAI: For the first time ever, the BJP will decide who will be Mumbai’s mayor. Though a ceremonial post, its political symbolism cannot be underestimated.CM Devendra Fadnavis has consistently maintained that the mayor will be from the Mahayuti and a Hindu. Speaker Rahul Narwekar said late evening on Friday that the mayor would be from…
BJP emerged as the single largest party in many of the municipal corporations that went to poll on Thursday, also improving on its previous election tallies. Of the 29 municipal corporations that went to polls, the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance was set to govern in 24 bodies. Congress emerged single largest party in two corporations and…
