Sunil Gatade | Will ‘Bandhua Majdoor’ remain loyal to the BJP?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Sunil Gatade | Will ‘Bandhua Majdoor’ remain loyal to the BJP?

Deccan Chronicle  

The BJP, politically, is the best butcher. After his stark failure to demolish Sharad Pawar’s Baramati bastion in the recently-held Lok Sabha polls, Ajit Pawar has virtually no utility value left for the saffron party. Ajit’s party could win only one of the four seats it had contested in the Lok Sabha polls from the state, bringing its strike rate to a mere 25 per cent. The MPs of Mr Reddy’s party -- four in the Lok Sabha and 11 in the Upper House -- will virtually be guided by the BJP’s whip. The newly-elected MP from Bathinda said the BJP was now trying to destabilise and break the Akali Dal using its “stooges”.Will ‘Bandhua Majdoor’ remain loyal to the BJP?

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Sunil Gatade | An ‘A to Z’ guide to India’s politics in the year gone by
1 week, 5 days ago

Sunil Gatade | An ‘A to Z’ guide to India’s politics in the year gone by

Deccan Chronicle  

In the year gone by, “A” definitely stands for Gautam Adani, the controversial businessman who was in the news, national and international, for all the wrong reasons. “B” is for the BJP, which remained its aggressive best despite failing to get a Lok Sabha majority, damaging Brand Modi. From the “United We Stand” position before the Lok Sabha polls, the …

"Already given my unconditional support": Eknath Shinde backs BJP candidate for Maharashtra CM
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1 month, 1 week ago

"Already given my unconditional support": Eknath Shinde backs BJP candidate for Maharashtra CM

Op India  

Caretaker Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde reiterated his full, unconditional support to the chief ministerial candidate in Maharashtra, stating that the people have delivered a historic mandate in favour of the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance. The Chief Minister candidate will be decided tomorrow.” Meanwhile, Nationalist Congress Party Chief Ajit Pawar had earlier clarified that the Chief Minister would …

Anita Katyal | Atishi, Sisodia may change their seats; EAM plays squash & breathes cricket
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Anita Katyal | Atishi, Sisodia may change their seats; EAM plays squash & breathes cricket

Deccan Chronicle  

Now that the Jharkhand and Maharashtra Assembly polls are over, the next electoral battleground is all set to shift to Delhi. # Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami goes out of his way to emulate his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath’s style of functioning but nothing seems to work for him as his popularity ratings show little signs of improvement. …

Ajit or Yugendra? Pawar games in Baramati could hinge on the Sharad factor
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ajit or Yugendra? Pawar games in Baramati could hinge on the Sharad factor

New Indian Express  

BARAMATI: Will the fate of the contest in the prized Baramati seat be decided by the word of an 84-year-old? "Though Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has done notable infrastructure and development work in Baramati, the real Daivat is the 84-year-old Sharad Pawar," says Amit Taware, a resident of Thopatewadi in the Baramati constituency. Ajit Pawar's tryst with Baramati …

Ajit Pawar Emerges as Key Player in Maharashtra Assembly Polls
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2 months, 1 week ago

Ajit Pawar Emerges as Key Player in Maharashtra Assembly Polls

The Hindu  

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar is expected to emerge as a key player after the November 20 Assembly polls. Pawar will face a tough contest against the ruling Mahayuti coalition and Opposition bloc Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and NCP chief Ajit Pawar will emerge as a key player after the elections.

Mahayuti Allies to Resolve Rebel Troubles: Eknath Shinde
2 months, 1 week ago

Mahayuti Allies to Resolve Rebel Troubles: Eknath Shinde

India Today  

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde expressed confidence that the Mahayuti alliance will find a way to address the issue of rebels contesting against the alliance's candidates in Assembly polls. He said that senior leaders of the Mahayuti alliance will sit and decide the way forward before the last date of filing nominations.

Maharashtra polls: In BJP bastion Kothrud, Chandrakant Patil locked in triangular contest
2 months, 1 week ago

Maharashtra polls: In BJP bastion Kothrud, Chandrakant Patil locked in triangular contest

Hindustan Times  

In the run-up to the November 20 assembly polls, Kothrud — a Bharatiya Janata Party stronghold — had seen internal rifts, with minister Chandrakant Patil having to work harder to secure support from his own party’s ranks. Rebel party members Amol Balwadkar and Ujwal Keskar had initially prepared to contest the election against him, citing Patil’s non-local status and calling …

Sunil Gatade | Modi 3.0: How a ‘strong leader’ is on the retreat
4 months ago

Sunil Gatade | Modi 3.0: How a ‘strong leader’ is on the retreat

Deccan Chronicle  

Narendra Modi is now on the retreat. The latest move to take a U-turn on the controversial “lateral entry” into the government is yet further evidence that Mr Modi is losing his ability to impose his decisions faster than anticipated.It is a shock for admirers and detractors alike that the Prime Minister, hailed by his supporters as the strongest leader …

BJP bets big on ‘night watchman’ Nayab Singh Saini to fight off anti-incumbency
4 months, 1 week ago

BJP bets big on ‘night watchman’ Nayab Singh Saini to fight off anti-incumbency

Hindustan Times  

“A night watchman of the BJP!” That’s how former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda repeatedly referred to Nayab Singh Saini as the newly minted Haryana chief minister arrived in assembly to prove majority in the 90-member House on March 13, 2024. In between his elevation as CM on March 12 and yet another election code of conduct coming into force …

‘If BJP commits same mistakes (as Congress) then…’: Nitin Gadkari's word of caution
5 months, 4 weeks ago

‘If BJP commits same mistakes (as Congress) then…’: Nitin Gadkari's word of caution

Hindustan Times  

Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said the Bharatiya Janata Party has been a party with a difference and that is why it has repeatedly won the trust of voters. Union minister Nitin Gadkari being felicitated by Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant and Union minister of state Shripad Y. Naik during the BJP Goa state executive meeting, in Taleigao on Friday. …

Ahead of Assembly election, schisms between alliance cadres roil ruling Mahayuti coalition
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Ahead of Assembly election, schisms between alliance cadres roil ruling Mahayuti coalition

The Hindu  

For all its professions of unity, deep rifts within the ruling Mahayuti coalition comprising the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party are coming to the fore at the cadre level following the alliance’s rout in the Lok Sabha election. A viral audio clip in which the Beed district chief of Maharashtra …

Giriraj Singh To Misa Bharti & Ravi Shankar; List Of Top 5 Lok Sabha Candidates From Bihar
7 months, 1 week ago

Giriraj Singh To Misa Bharti & Ravi Shankar; List Of Top 5 Lok Sabha Candidates From Bihar

ABP News  

The voting has been conducted in the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar, where the voting in seven phases concluded on Saturday. Here are some of the top candidates this election: - Giriraj Singh: BJP firebrand leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh is seeking a second term from Begusarai Lok Sabha seat in Bihar. - Ravi Shankar Prasad: BJP leader …

Supriya Sule has winning edge in Baramati 'Pawar' struggle: Axis My India poll
7 months, 1 week ago

Supriya Sule has winning edge in Baramati 'Pawar' struggle: Axis My India poll

India Today  

National Congress Party candidate and sitting MP Supriya Sule is likely in a leading position in Maharashtra's Baramati where she is in a direct fight with her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar, the India Today-Axis My India exit poll predicted on Saturday. The primary battle is between Supriya Sule -- a three-time MP and daughter of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar -- and …

Bihar Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Caste Equations Shift as Kushwahas, EBCs, Dalits Move Away from NDA
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Bihar Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Caste Equations Shift as Kushwahas, EBCs, Dalits Move Away from NDA

The Hindu  

Published : May 24, 2024 17:19 IST - 11 MINS READ As the Lok Sabha election entered its final stretch, there were indications of a change in the voting pattern in Bihar across the six completed phases and the seventh remaining phase. The NDA, which won 39 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, comprises five parties in Bihar: …

Vote INDIA Alliance to End Modi's Barbarian Rule: Sitaram Yechury
8 months ago

Vote INDIA Alliance to End Modi's Barbarian Rule: Sitaram Yechury

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Secularism and fundamental rights guaranteed to Indian citizens under the Constitution are facing a severe threat from Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government, underlined CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury here on Wednesday. Campaigning in support of the INDIA alliance candidates in Tadepalli of Guntur district, Yechury said, “The Prime Minister’s latest remarks on Adani and Ambani are a sign …

Baramati battle: Both NCP factions deploy resources for higher voter turnout
8 months ago

Baramati battle: Both NCP factions deploy resources for higher voter turnout

Hindustan Times  

Pune: While Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar campaigned in Baramati till Sunday, their parties - Nationalist Congress Party and NCP - have deployed workers in all six assembly constituencies under the Lok Sabha seat to ensure higher voter turnout. Both NCP factions in Baramati have deployed workers in all six assembly constituencies under the Lok Sabha seat to ensure higher …

Shiromani Akali Dal contestant quits party, gives up his candidature
8 months ago

Shiromani Akali Dal contestant quits party, gives up his candidature

The Hindu  

Shiromani Akali Dal, which has been electorally going through a rough patch since 2017 in Punjab, faced a setback in Union Territory – Chandigarh on Monday after its candidate Hardeep Singh Saini quit the party and decided not to contest the Lok Sabha election. Mr. Saini, a former deputy mayor of Chandigarh, said he was peeved over the lack of …

BSP factor, RJD rebel puzzle big players in Bihar
8 months ago

BSP factor, RJD rebel puzzle big players in Bihar

New Indian Express  

PATNA: The diminishing popularity of Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal president Nitish Kumar, coupled with the entry of a rebel Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate in the Jhanjharpur Lok Sabha constituency, has intensified the poll battle in Bihar’s Jhanjharpur Lok Sabha constituency. This time, Jhanjharpur is set to witness a triangular fight with the entry of rebel RJD candidate Gulab …

'BJP wants to destroy Constitution, abolish reservation': Lalu Yadav
8 months, 1 week ago

'BJP wants to destroy Constitution, abolish reservation': Lalu Yadav

India Today  

Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday launched a scathing attack on the BJP and claimed that the ruling party wants to destroy the Constitution made by Babasaheb Ambedkar. Earlier in the day, Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya filed her nomination from Bihar’s Saran Lok Sabha seat. "Along with Saran, the 'Mahagathbandhan' is …

Naveen Patnaik’s home turf awaits a feisty ‘battle of turncoats’
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Naveen Patnaik’s home turf awaits a feisty ‘battle of turncoats’

The Hindu  

As Pradeep Panigrahy, the BJP’s candidate from the Berhampur Lok Sabha seat, drives down to his constituency from Odisha’s capital Bhubaneswar on Friday, he cannot shake off a sense of nervousness. While BJP candidate Mr. Panigrahy was once a key member of the BJD’s core group, a three-time BJD MLA from Gopalpur, and a former Higher Education Minister in the …

Lok Sabha elections: Infighting, camp switch add intrigue to Darjeeling fight
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha elections: Infighting, camp switch add intrigue to Darjeeling fight

Hindustan Times  

The Darjeeling seat in Bengal goes to the polls on Friday in circumstances that has made the contest even more intriguing than usual -- infighting in the local units of both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, a tussle that has seen Gorkha leaders switching camps, the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress making a desperate bid to snatch the seat …

Lok Sabha polls: BJP announces new candidate for Ladakh
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha polls: BJP announces new candidate for Ladakh

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday announced Tashi Gyalson, a former party general secretary of the Ladakh unit, as its candidate from the union territory, replacing the incumbent lawmaker Jamyang Tsering Namgyal. “There is a section of leaders who see Tashi as a recent inductee in the BJP and feel Namgyal should contest as an independent,” the functionary said. A …

Lok Sabha polls: Is Mayawati’s game plan unnerving BJP, SP?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha polls: Is Mayawati’s game plan unnerving BJP, SP?

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party was considered a non-player after party chief Mayawati announced to go solo in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. This could not only make the contest triangular on UP’s 80 Lok Sabha seats, but on some seats, BSP candidates are likely to be in direct contest with either the NDA or INDIA bloc candidates. The ‘jumbo …

Baramati battle: Sharad Pawar rekindles old ties to secure votes for Supriya Sule
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Baramati battle: Sharad Pawar rekindles old ties to secure votes for Supriya Sule

India Today  

Veteran politician Sharad Pawar is forging ties with traditional political rivals after his nephew Ajit Pawar's wife has been fielded against his daughter Supriya Sule from the Baramati seat. Following Ajit Pawar's takeover of the NCP and his decision to form an alliance with the BJP, political equations changed in the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency. Ajit Pawar also got a …

Modi running a ‘dictatorship’ that jails dissenting voices: Sharad Pawar
9 months ago

Modi running a ‘dictatorship’ that jails dissenting voices: Sharad Pawar

The Hindu  

As PM Modi blew the poll bugle in Maharashtra with a rally in Vidarbha on April 8, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar chastised him for being intolerant of dissent, remarking that Mr. Modi had centralised power and sent people to jail for speaking against him. Addressing a rally during campaigning in the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency – the stronghold …

Apna Dal-K's Pallavi Patel hints at joining BJP-led NDA in UP in another jolt to I.N.D.I.A bloc
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Apna Dal-K's Pallavi Patel hints at joining BJP-led NDA in UP in another jolt to I.N.D.I.A bloc

India TV News  

UP Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Apna Dal leader and MLA from UP's Sirathu, Pallavi Patel hinted at joining the BJP-led NDA in Uttar Pradesh in another jolt to I.N.D.I.A bloc today. No alliance with Apna Dal for LS polls: Akhilesh Yadav A day after the Apna Dal declared its candidates for three Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the …

BJP to go solo in Odisha, no alliance with BJD for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections
9 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP to go solo in Odisha, no alliance with BJD for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal on Friday said that his party will contest the upcoming simultaneous elections to Assembly and Lok Sabha alone. Samal made this announcement on X clarifying that the it would not be possible for the BJP to align with the BJD government on many issues involving Odia identity and Odisha pride. The state BJP president, …

State’s decisions in cooperative sector could influence voters in 22 Lok Sabha constituencies
9 months, 3 weeks ago

State’s decisions in cooperative sector could influence voters in 22 Lok Sabha constituencies

Hindustan Times  

In the last eight months, especially after the induction of Ajit Pawar into the ruling alliance, the state government has taken a series of measures in the cooperative sector to reach out to the voters associated with it through sugar factories, credit societies, banks, and lift irrigation schemes. Mumbai, India – June 21, 2023: NCP leader Ajit Pawar during the …

Fadnavis attempts to quell raging coalition schisms over key Lok Sabha seats
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Fadnavis attempts to quell raging coalition schisms over key Lok Sabha seats

The Hindu  

As Maharashtra’s ruling Mahayuti coalition struggles to cope with seat-sharing problems sparked by the induction of Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party faction, Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis is on a hectic ‘pacification’ campaign to douse past acrimony between ruling allies over key Lok Sabha seats like Baramati and Madha. Mr. Fadnavis summoned senior BJP leader …

LS polls: Politically significant Kendrapara sees aspirants lobby in Bhubaneswar
9 months, 3 weeks ago

LS polls: Politically significant Kendrapara sees aspirants lobby in Bhubaneswar

New Indian Express  

KENDRAPARA: In Kendrapara, political leaders have started lobbying at the highest levels of their respective parties, vying for nominations for the seven Assembly seats and the prestigious Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency. Expressing optimism, a BJP leader from the district, on condition of anonymity, said that despite not securing any seats in the 2019 polls, the party’s diligent groundwork positions them …

Rival Pawars face tough contest in Baramati as third challenger emerges
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Rival Pawars face tough contest in Baramati as third challenger emerges

The Hindu  

The crucial Baramati Lok Sabha seat, which both the rival NCP factions led by Ajit Pawar and Sharad Pawar have claimed, may witness a three-way contest after Vijay Shivtare, a former Maharashtra Minister and senior leader of the ruling Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, announced his intention to contest the seat, which is a bastion of the Pawar clan. The Shinde …

Shiv Sena leader vows to challenge Sharad Pawar's supremacy in Baramati
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Shiv Sena leader vows to challenge Sharad Pawar's supremacy in Baramati

India Today  

With the Lok Sabha elections inching closer, the focus on Maharashtra's Baramati, the home turf of Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar, which is represented by his daughter and incumbent MP Supriya Sule, renewed on Monday after Shiv Sena leader Vijay Shivtare announced his candidacy from the seat. This came as suspense remains over the seat-sharing pact in the ruling …

Party hoppers in a spot of bother over BJP-BJD alliance
10 months ago

Party hoppers in a spot of bother over BJP-BJD alliance

The Hindu  

At a time when the announcement of a formal alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Biju Janata Dal appears imminent, a group of recent entrants, who switched sides from the regional party to the saffron camp, now find themselves in a spot of bother. Recently, four incumbent MLAs, all formerly associated with the BJD, and over 10 former …

BJP likely to join hands with Naveen Patnaik's BJD in Odisha for Lok Sabha polls: Sources
10 months ago

BJP likely to join hands with Naveen Patnaik's BJD in Odisha for Lok Sabha polls: Sources

India TV News  

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to ally with Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal in Odisha for the Lok Sabha polls, sources have said. PM Modi recounts development done in Odisha, refrain from attacking BJD govt Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Odisha on Tuesday, said the BJP government is trying to make Odisha the …

Six of remaining 29 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh may go to BJP allies
10 months, 1 week ago

Six of remaining 29 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh may go to BJP allies

Hindustan Times  

Six of the 29 Uttar Pradesh seats for which the BJP has not named candidates in the first list are likely to be allotted to its allies, including the Rashtriya Lok Dal, Apna Dal and the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party, people aware of the development said. Suspense prevails on the Sultanpur seat, where eight- time MP and former Union minister …

Odisha BJP chief denies any alliance with BJD for Lok Sabha and Assembly polls
10 months, 1 week ago

Odisha BJP chief denies any alliance with BJD for Lok Sabha and Assembly polls

Hindustan Times  

Bharatiya Janata Party Odisha state president Manmohan Samal on Friday ruled out speculations over a possible alliance with the state’s ruling Biju Janata Dal for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. Samal, who was in Delhi to discuss with the central leadership about the candidates for the 21 Lok Sabha seats and 147 assembly seats in the state, said …

Odisha: BJP Leaders, Workers Look to PM Modi’s March 5 Visit for Clarity on Party’s 2024 Mission
10 months, 1 week ago

Odisha: BJP Leaders, Workers Look to PM Modi’s March 5 Visit for Clarity on Party’s 2024 Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneswar: All eyes are Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Odisha visit in the first week of March when he will address a public rally at Chandikhol in Jajpur district, apart from participating in some government programmes. The BJP state leaders and workers believe that the PM would clear the air about the party’s Odisha mission with regard to the forthcoming Lok …

Three 'Mahagathbandhan' MLAs join BJP in big jolt to I.N.D.I.A bloc in Bihar
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Three 'Mahagathbandhan' MLAs join BJP in big jolt to I.N.D.I.A bloc in Bihar

India TV News  

In another blow to I.N.D.I.A bloc, Congress MLAs Murari Prasad Gautam and Siddharth Saurav, and RJD MLA Sangita Kumari joined the BJP on Tuesday. Last month, Nitish Kumar had broken away from the Mahagathbandhan and the Opposition's I.N.D.I.A bloc and rejoined the NDA ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Murari Prasad Gautam hails from the Chenari constituency, Siddharth Saurav from …

As BSP MPs desert the party, Lok Sabha election to be a reckoning for Mayawati
10 months, 2 weeks ago

As BSP MPs desert the party, Lok Sabha election to be a reckoning for Mayawati

The Hindu  

In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Bahujan Samaj Party saw 10 MPs get elected on its tickets. BSP MP Ritesh Pandey’s defection to the BJP on February 25 afternoon is actually part of a continuum of BSP MPs looking elsewhere for political refuge, with Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari already securing the Samajwadi Party’s ticket for the seat. On Sunday …

Ajit Pawar urges people to work unitedly to win NDA 400 LS seats, says vast majority want Modi as PM again
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Ajit Pawar urges people to work unitedly to win NDA 400 LS seats, says vast majority want Modi as PM again

India TV News  

NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Sunday said that a vast majority of people of the country want Narendra Modi to return as prime minister for the third term and everyone in the ruling alliance in Maharashtra is working towards this ambition. Addressing a farmers’ rally in Baramati, Pawar said that he was kickstarting his campaign for the Lok Sabha elections …

“Beware of emotional appeal of last election”: Ajit targets Sharad Pawar in Baramati
11 months ago

“Beware of emotional appeal of last election”: Ajit targets Sharad Pawar in Baramati

Hindustan Times  

Deputy chief minister and rebel Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar on Saturday took a dig at his 83-year-old uncle Sharad Pawar by alluding to his age and speaking about the “emotional appeal of last election.” With Baramati most likely to go to Ajit Pawar camp in the seat-sharing between BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP alliance, the deputy chief minister has started preparing …

Sunil Gatade | BJP facing more trouble as polarisation' is not enough
1 year, 1 month ago

Sunil Gatade | BJP facing more trouble as polarisation' is not enough

Deccan Chronicle  

Some truths hit hard. Notwithstanding plans for a grand inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya in January 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi realises that polarisation alone cannot ensure a third term for the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls. Mr Modi is no doubt the only “Hindu Hriday Samrat” and the RSS and the entire Sangh Parivar would go …

Won't go to Delhi, will stay and contest elections from Nagpur: Devendra Fadnavis
1 year, 1 month ago

Won't go to Delhi, will stay and contest elections from Nagpur: Devendra Fadnavis

India TV News  

BJP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday responded to speculations of him being given a place in central politics, asserting that he will not go to Delhi and will stay and contest the Assembly elections from Nagpur. 'PM Modi will win with 'bumper vote' in Lok Sabha polls' The deputy CM further emphasised that Prime Minister …

Chhattisgarh polls: A tight electoral contest plays out on the field of many a bloodbath in Bastar
1 year, 2 months ago

Chhattisgarh polls: A tight electoral contest plays out on the field of many a bloodbath in Bastar

Hindustan Times  

Bastar The single-lane tarred road is quiet and lonely, meandering through green foliage, slanting upwards, and then gently downhill. In 2013, in one of India’s deadliest attacks, an ambush on a Congress “parivartan yatra” left 27 people dead, wiping out almost the entire state leadership of the party. Unable to recover in time, the Congress lost the 2013 elections, but …

Anita Katyal | BJP eyes amity with Pawars... AAP still keeping an open mind?
1 year, 4 months ago

Anita Katyal | BJP eyes amity with Pawars... AAP still keeping an open mind?

Deccan Chronicle  

The Bharatiya Janata Party finds itself in a bind in Maharashtra even after it successfully engineered a split in the Nationalist Congress Party and improved its numerical strength in the state assembly. Its internal surveys are said to have shown that chief minister and former Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde has limited influence while deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, the …

Analysis | With Ajit Pawar as a ‘Trojan horse’, BJP seeks to storm Baramati and Maharashtra’s sugar heartland
1 year, 5 months ago

Analysis | With Ajit Pawar as a ‘Trojan horse’, BJP seeks to storm Baramati and Maharashtra’s sugar heartland

The Hindu  

For several years, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s efforts to storm Sharad Pawar’s citadel of Baramati and politically dominate the sugar heartland of western Maharashtra have come unstuck. However, in using Mr. Sharad Pawar’s nephew, Ajit Pawar and his splinter NCP faction, as the ‘Trojan horse’ to breach the 82-year-old NCP patriarch’s bastion, the BJP sees a fair chance in dominating …

Bandi-Backed Leaders from Nizamabad May Quit BJP
1 year, 6 months ago

Bandi-Backed Leaders from Nizamabad May Quit BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: Followers of Bandi Sanjay Kumar from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency have been in a dilemma ever since he was replaced by Union minister G. Kishan Reddy as the state BJP chief. He encouraged Assembly ticket aspirants in Nizamabad urban, Nizamabad rural, Bodhan, Armoor, Balkonda, Korutla and Jagtial Assembly constituencies, while some aspirants enjoyed the support of Sanjay. BJP …

Sunil Gatade | Maha Erupts as BJP in Search of Allies, Old & New, Ahead of 2024
1 year, 6 months ago

Sunil Gatade | Maha Erupts as BJP in Search of Allies, Old & New, Ahead of 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

Maharashtra’s bizarre political developments this week in which an NCP faction headed by Ajit Pawar joined the government, giving Sharad Pawar a jolt, can be seen as an unsure BJP seeking new allies at any cost. The idea is to checkmate the Congress with “BJP plus JD” votes despite the fact that Mr Deve Gowda’s party is fast losing ground. …

Ajit Pawar's Maha Switch: A Short-Circuit for Opposition’s Sharad ‘Power’ Line & 'Unity'?
1 year, 6 months ago

Ajit Pawar's Maha Switch: A Short-Circuit for Opposition’s Sharad ‘Power’ Line & 'Unity'?

News 18  

After the ‘successful’ Patna meeting for Opposition unity, plans were on with excitement for the Bengaluru session. ': #SharadPawar briefs media after #AjitPawar joins NDA@vinivdvc pic.twitter.com/WQxvgLHsrK— News18 July 2, 2023 PAWARS’ SPLIT SECOND Among the Opposition leaders, Sharad Pawar is the tallest and most experienced. They could have kept Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot one, chacha-bhatija one and they couldn’t even keep …

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