The many angles in Maharashtra’s poll geometry
8 months, 1 week ago

The many angles in Maharashtra’s poll geometry

New Indian Express  

Maharashtra is seeing a straight and hard fight between the two national alliances, NDA and INDIA. The NDA is contesting through four parties in the state—the BJP, Shinde Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar NCP and Rashtriya Samaj Paksha—and INDIA is represented by three parties—the Congress, Uddhav Thackeray Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar NCP. The BJP has given Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar—NDA’s two Maratha faces—the responsibility of attracting the community towards the bloc. The state’s political axes are aligned along community lines—upper castes versus Marathas, Marathas versus OBCs, and upper castes versus SCs. The other constituencies feature OBC candidates from one side or the other—Vilas Thackeray in Nagpur, Ramdas Tadas in Wardha, Amar Kale also in Wardha, Sudhir Mungantiwar in Chandrapur and Pratibha Dhanurkar in Chandrapur.

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A Maharashtra primer for Mahayuti leadership
1 week, 6 days ago

A Maharashtra primer for Mahayuti leadership

Hindustan Times  

The poll grand slam in Maharashtra will certainly warm the cockles of the BJP’s heart; but the phenomenal Vidhan Sabha tally raises several issues which the BJP strategists need to address before getting down to the nitty-gritty of governance in Mantralay, the seat of administration, in south Mumbai. Any plan by the BJP to tweak Maharashtra’s socio-cultural agenda, the Maharashtra …

Opinion: After Haryana, Maharashtra — How RSS Propelled BJP Wins & What It Means Ahead Of Sangh Centenary
3 weeks ago

Opinion: After Haryana, Maharashtra — How RSS Propelled BJP Wins & What It Means Ahead Of Sangh Centenary

ABP News  

The massive victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra shouldn’t be read as just another electoral achievement. ‘Sajag Raho’ Campaign Though the RSS is avowedly apolitical and does not directly endorse any political party as a matter of principle, its influence in encouraging citizens to participate in the electoral process significantly bolstered the BJP’s performance in the Maharashtra elections. …

Maharashtra Election 2024: BJP’s OBC Strategy Defeated Maratha Power Block
4 weeks ago

Maharashtra Election 2024: BJP’s OBC Strategy Defeated Maratha Power Block

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 26, 2024 11:31 IST - 8 MINS READ For those following the Maharashtra Assembly election, the result announced on November 23 came as a surprise: Not because the BJP-led Mahayuti won the State, but because of the enormous margin of its victory. The biggest factor that proved decisive in the BJP’s success to overcome the “Maratha Challenge” …

A Precursory Look at Community-wise Voting in Maharashtra and Jharkhand
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1 month ago

A Precursory Look at Community-wise Voting in Maharashtra and Jharkhand

The Quint  

In Maharashtra, caste is the very foundation of the political battleground. The OBCs, who constitute 38 percent of the state’s population, played a decisive role in this election, won by the Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, the Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar's NCP. Despite agitation over the reservation and dissatisfaction with unresolved demands, the BJP managed to retain a significant …

Maharashtra elections: BJP tightens grip on Vidarbha
1 month ago

Maharashtra elections: BJP tightens grip on Vidarbha

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party further cemented its base in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, winning around 37 out of 62 Assembly seats. The BJP swept Nagpur district, home to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters, including the high-profile Nagpur South-West constituency held by Devendra Fadnavis, the former Chief Minister and current Deputy Chief Minister of the State. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union …

Maharashtra election results 2024: How Vidarbha region was crucial to Mahayuti win
1 month ago

Maharashtra election results 2024: How Vidarbha region was crucial to Mahayuti win

Firstpost  

The agrarian belt of Vidarbha, located in eastern Maharashtra, has the second-highest number of Assembly seats after Western Maharashtra. The BJP has won 2 seats and is leading in 124 others, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena has won one and is leading in 54 others, and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party is ahead in 40. PTI Notably, the region is home …

As Maharashtra voted, 7 big factors that could swing the election decisively
1 month ago

As Maharashtra voted, 7 big factors that could swing the election decisively

India Today  

Maharashtra has seen three governments, three chief ministers, and four deputy chief ministers since the 2019 Assembly election, a testament to how cluttered the state's political space is right now. There was a complex interplay of various factors like, OBC consolidation, Maratha reservation, and the impact of cash doles like the Ladki Bahin Yojana, that could significantly influence the fortunes …

Assembly Election 2024: Why Vidarbha is central to Mahayuti vs MVA power struggle in Maharashtra
1 month ago

Assembly Election 2024: Why Vidarbha is central to Mahayuti vs MVA power struggle in Maharashtra

Live Mint  

Maharashtra Election 2024: The high-decibel campaign for the Maharashtra assembly election ended on November 18. Like in the past, many political heavyweights from both alliances, including Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule, and state Congress president Nana Patole, are in the fray from Vidarbha region in the upcoming election. Road to power in Maharashtra goes through …

Why is there widespread discontent in Maharashtra?
1 month, 1 week ago

Why is there widespread discontent in Maharashtra?

The Hindu  

In Maharashtra, the extensive network of cooperatives, particularly in the banking, sugar, and dairy sectors, has been instrumental in forging strong patronage linkages that have reinforced the Maratha community’s dominant hold on State power. Maharashtra’s latest Maratha quota law and its challenges | Explained However, this patronage system has marginalised other communities by concentrating economic and political power within the …

In Vidarbha, Maharashtra’s beating heart, the electoral play is national
1 month, 1 week ago

In Vidarbha, Maharashtra’s beating heart, the electoral play is national

The Hindu  

With 62 Assembly constituencies, Vidarbha, a region in central India marked by a striking mix of contrasting elements, plays a decisive role in Maharashtra’s politics. Several prominent leaders from the region, including the Congress’s State chief Nana Patole, his BJP counterpart Chandrashekar Bawankule, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, and the Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar, …

Hindu-Muslim unity essential for India, says SP leader at Mumbai rally
1 month, 1 week ago

Hindu-Muslim unity essential for India, says SP leader at Mumbai rally

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: In response to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's slogan "Batenge toh katenge", Samajwadi Party's Leader of Opposition Mata Prasad Pandey emphasised Hindu-Muslim unity during a rally in Mumbai's Saki Naka area on Tuesday. Speaking to a gathering in the demographically diverse neighbourhood, which has a significant Muslim and north Indian population, Pandey said, "Hindu-Muslim are two hands of …

Why is Maharashtra poll fray fragmented?
1 month, 1 week ago

Why is Maharashtra poll fray fragmented?

The Hindu  

Since the formation of the State in 1960, Maharashtra has been dominated for a long period by the Congress System, stitching a cross-sectional alliance between the dominant agrarian caste of the Maratha-Kunbi group and effective support from Dalits and Muslims. However, the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena, in alliance with each other, introduced new dimensions to …

Vidarbha braces for Cong-BJP showdown
1 month, 1 week ago

Vidarbha braces for Cong-BJP showdown

Hindustan Times  

Strap: Of the 62 seats here, the two parties will clash in 36, in a stronghold the Congress is hoping to win back from its arch rival Vidarbha braces for Cong-BJP showdown NAGPUR: The road to the corridors of power in Mumbai passes through Vidarbha, where two diametrically opposite ideologies are battling for control of the region. The BJP’s agenda …

Maharashtra Election 2024: BJP Dusts Off Its 1980s OBC Formula As Maratha Reservation Rocks Assembly Plans
1 month, 1 week ago

Maharashtra Election 2024: BJP Dusts Off Its 1980s OBC Formula As Maratha Reservation Rocks Assembly Plans

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 11, 2024 16:25 IST - 9 MINS READ Before the formation of the BJP in 1980, the Congress dominated Maharashtra’s politics with the formidable support of Marathas, Dalits, Kunbis, tribal people, and Muslims. Bhagwat understood the crux of the politics of the time: the Marathas, the State’s ruling caste, which accounted for 32 per cent of the …

What the PM’s speech in Wardha means for Maharashtra Assembly elections
3 months ago

What the PM’s speech in Wardha means for Maharashtra Assembly elections

The Hindu  

“The first hero of Maharashtra’s multidimensional progress is the farmer of Vidarbha. The road to Maharashtra’s prosperity goes through him,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday at Wardha, in Maharashtra’s developmentally backlogged Vidarbha region. Both soybean and cotton are the main crops of Vidarbha, the region that had given a sweeping mandate to the Bharatiya Janata Party in the …

Maharashtra Poll Position: Congress On Vidarbha, Marathwada Tour From Saturday; Mahayuti Rallies From August 20
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra Poll Position: Congress On Vidarbha, Marathwada Tour From Saturday; Mahayuti Rallies From August 20

News 18  

Buoyed by its recent success in the region in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has decided to focus on Vidarbha and Marathwada for the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. Beginning August 10, Congress’s state in-charge Ramesh Chennithala, along with other senior leaders, will embark on a comprehensive tour of Vidarbha and Marathwada. First, the senior Congress leadership, including state president …

Kushinagar: BJP eyeing a hat-trick in land of Buddha’s Mahaparinirvana
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Kushinagar: BJP eyeing a hat-trick in land of Buddha’s Mahaparinirvana

Hindustan Times  

KUSHINAGAR: In the land of Buddha’s Mahaparinirvana, the Bharatiya Janata Party is aiming for a third consecutive victory in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, while the Samajwadi Party is striving to secure a maiden win in a seat it has repeatedly failed to capture despite the sizable presence of its core support base—Muslims and Yadavs. The Samajwadi Party has fielded …

Contours of growing caste disharmony in Maharashtra
1 year, 1 month ago

Contours of growing caste disharmony in Maharashtra

Hindustan Times  

Marathas first sought to be treated as Kunbi in Marathwada, which is one of the most backward regions in India, besides being notorious for the history of Dalit-Maratha/OBC conflicts. Competitive electoral politics based on caste has given rise to division among the peasant castes as well as the marginalisation of the artisan castes. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance …

Maharashtra | A quota war reignites
1 year, 3 months ago

Maharashtra | A quota war reignites

India Today  

Seven years after the dominant Maratha community first launched a series of silent morchas for their demands like reservations in jobs and education, the issue has returned to haunt politics in Maharashtra. Since 2016, around 58 ‘Maratha Kranti Morchas’—some of them having hundreds of thousands of people joining them—were organised in Maharashtra and neighbouring states. The agitation turned violent in …

Influx of Maratha leaders may upset equations in Maharashtra BJP
1 year, 4 months ago

Influx of Maratha leaders may upset equations in Maharashtra BJP

The Hindu  

The split in the Shiv Sena and in the Nationalist Congress Party of the Maha Vikas Aghadi may have left a trail of confusion and dismay in its wake within the alliance in Maharashtra, but the party’s active of wooing of Maratha leaders in the form of the NCP’s Ajit Pawar has raised its own series of misgivings within the …

UP Next: How Samajwadi Party is Following the BJP Playbook This Election Season
3 years ago

UP Next: How Samajwadi Party is Following the BJP Playbook This Election Season

News 18  

Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election in 2022, Samajwadi Party, led by Akhilesh Yadav, is stitching alliances with various caste- and community based political parties, such as Apna Dal, Mahan Dal and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party. The Samajwadi Party’s aim is to add a few more aspirant OBC communities to its Muslim-Yadav base vote by forming alliances with small …

Getting a handle on the battle for Uttar Pradesh
3 years ago

Getting a handle on the battle for Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu  

If one is to go by the number of political parties contesting elections in Uttar Pradesh, it may be seen to be a multi-cornered contest. The BJP has also managed to form alliances with smaller regional parties which would only help the party in consolidating its support base. When compared to the 2017 Assembly elections, the support base of the …

Maratha group keen on alliance with BJP
3 years, 3 months ago

Maratha group keen on alliance with BJP

Hindustan Times  

Purshottam Khedekar, the chief of Sambhaji Brigade, said the Maratha outfit wants to have an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the future elections in the state. The statement is significant as the link between hardline Maratha group Sambhaji Brigade and the Nationalist Congress Party is well-known in the political circles. The alliance between the two could hurt the …

Maharashtra Panchayat Poll Results: MVA seeks to consolidate itself ahead of BMC battle; BJP seeks to bounce back
3 years, 11 months ago

Maharashtra Panchayat Poll Results: MVA seeks to consolidate itself ahead of BMC battle; BJP seeks to bounce back

Firstpost  

The gram panchayat polls were held more than a month after the ruling MVA’s victory in the graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies in the Legislative Council elections The Maharashtra panchayat polls, the results for which will become clear on Monday, constitute a crucial test for both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi, which is now close to …

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