NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday met his party’s district unit presidents and top functionaries to chart out preparations for the crucial local body elections across Maharashtra later this year.The polls will cover 29 municipal corporations, where ward delimitation has already begun, along with 32 zilla parishads, 336 panchayat samitis and…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena’s 59th foundation day turned into a full-blown family feud on Thursday, with Uddhav Thackeray accusing the BJP of sabotaging a possible alliance with cousin Raj Thackeray’s MNS, and Eknath Shinde firing back with taunts of betrayal and hunger for power.Holding parallel rallies in Mumbai, both Sena factions invoked Bal Thackeray’s legacy,…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Monday admitted that the state government made a “mistake” in extending financial benefits to all applicants of the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana without sufficient scrutiny, attributing the lapse to time constraints ahead of last year’s assembly elections.“We made a mistake of giving the financial benefit…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday vowed to reclaim the lost ground in Maharashtra’s Konkan region and declared that there is “only one Shiv Sena,” and he leads that.Speaking at Matoshri in Mumbai, Uddhav said that he would tour the entire Konkan region to rejuvenate cadres and strengthen the organisation after…
Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, once remarked, “All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.” Few in contemporary Indian politics have embodied this more than Uddhav Thackeray. To become the chief minister of Maharashtra, he dramatically reshaped his politics, severing ties with the…
Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray MUMBAI: Opposition MVA criticised Maharashtra govt over violence in Nagpur, with Uddhav Thackeray targeting CM and home minister Devendra Fadnavis even as MPCC chief Harshawardhan Sapkal rejected the demand of Mahayuti netas for an apology for his statement comparing Fadnavis to Aurangzeb.Uddhav asked, “Fadnavis’s house is in Nagpur. The RSS headquarters…
Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister and Eknath Shinde on Thursday took a dig at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for not attending the recently-concluded Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj and said the it showed that he was scared of calling himself a Hindu. Uddhav also hit back at the…
NEW DELHI: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is facing internal tensions after Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) president Sharad Pawar felicitated Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde at an event in Delhi. The move has not gone down well with the Shiv Sena (UBT), with senior party leader Sanjay Raut strongly criticising Pawar for…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) on Saturday said that results of Delhi assembly elections would have been different if the Congress and AAP had contested together against the BJP. Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi, who are allies in the opposition’s INDIA bloc, campaigned against each other after they turned rivals in the Delhi elections.“The early…
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut/ PTI photo NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday claimed some of the leaders in the BJP wished to have an alliance with the Uddhav Thackeray-led party, an assertion that CM Devendra Fadnavis outrightly dismissed. Raut also said that even some members of his party might…