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How BJP captured western Maharashtra, won over Marathas? Devendra Fadnavis replies

Dismissing speculations of Maratha anger against the BJP, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that it was, in fact, the coming together of the Marathas and OBCs that helped the party secure its biggest tally. In an exclusive interview with India Today, Fadnavis revealed how the BJP clawed back support among the Maratha community after the Lok Sabha debacle and …

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3 weeks, 6 days 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” …

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4 weeks ago

Maharashtra election: Seven reasons for Mahayuti’s unprecedented victory

The Hindu

Published : Nov 25, 2024 15:39 IST - 13 MINS READ The BJP’s slogan Ab ki baar char so paar during the general election backfired like a boomerang. In the 2019 Assembly election, the BJP won 105, Shiv Sena, 56, and NCP, 54—combined, they won a total of 215 seats. If many found this result perplexing, it is because everyone …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Mastermind behind Mahayuti’s Maharashtra triumph: Not Shinde, Fadnavis, but an RSS-linked power player

Live Mint

Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 were a complete surprise for the opposition, as the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti alliance achieved a resounding victory in the state. Apart from the three, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's general secretary, Atul Limaye, also played a crucial role in ensuring Mahayuti's victory. Atul Limaye's role in Mahayuti magic in Maharashtra According to a Hindustan Times report, Atul …

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From the India Today archives (2019) | Devendra Fadnavis: The marathon man

India Today

That was Devendra Fadnavis in June this year, sounding more Terminator than chief minister. Sena leader Anil Desai says the party expects Fadnavis to fulfil his promise of giving the Sena a 50 per cent share in power. But when even senior BJP leaders, including the late Gopinath Munde, were predicting 35 Lok Sabha seats for the BJP-Sena alliance, Fadnavis …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

How Mahayuti won Maharashtra: The four trump cards

India Today

The BJP-led Mahayuti’s swashbuckling assembly election victory in Maharashtra, just six months into big setbacks at the hands of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi in the parliamentary polls, has come on four dominant factors: cash, caste, crops and communal polarisation. CASH The state government’s Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana covering over 23 million women, and under which beneficiaries from indigent …

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1 month ago

Economic and political power are intertwined in Maharashtra

The Hindu

Dynastic politics plays a significant role in shaping Maharashtra’s political and economic landscape. We found approximately 115 businesses owned by politicians from established political families that operate in rent-thick sectors that benefit from proximity to power. Table 2 | The table shows the party-wise split of the dynastic politicians who own sugar co-operatives/mills In addition to the sugar industry, about …

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1 month ago

Manoj Jarange-Patil's post-poll mission: 'Marathas want OBC quota, and will take it'

India Today

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil has been the proverbial X factor in this Maharashtra assembly election. In the run-up to the polls, Jarange-Patil’s announcement that he would form a rainbow coalition with groups like Muslims and Dalits and support candidates had led to trepidation in the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi. In an exclusive conversation with Dhaval S. Kulkarni, Jarange-Patil spoke …

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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 …

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1 month ago

Will Yogi Adityanath’s ‘batenge toh katenge’ slogan help or harm BJP in Maharashtra elections?

Live Mint

Maharashtra Elections 2024: In the heated lead-up to the Maharashtra assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's slogan, “batenge toh katenge”, has emerged as a significant talking point. Maharashtra Elections: BJP’s Vote Consolidation Strategy The BJP’s strategic deployment of the slogan is aimed at countering caste-based voting patterns and preventing the fragmentation of Hindu votes, particularly in crucial regions …

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1 month ago

Will ally RSP's exit queer the pitch for Mahayuti in Maharashtra polls?

India Today

In a jolt to the incumbent Mahayuti coalition in Maharashtra, the Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, led by former minister and Other Backward Classes leader Mahadev Jankar, has quit the front. He added that the decision had come on the back of wrangling between the three principal parties in the Mahayuti, namely the BJP, chief minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction and …

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1 month ago

Maharashtra polls: Two Bhujbals, two seats, and vendetta politics

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: For decades, tallying votes in an election was a mere formality for Chhagan Bhujbal. Ever since Bhujbal clashed with Jarange-Patil, the latter has been urging the Maratha community to ensure Bhujbal’s defeat in the election. He said ‘let the Maratha people work as barbers for each other; don’t shave them and don’t cut their hair.’ Obviously, we want him …

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1 month ago

Maharashtra polls: Will Marathwada spoil Mahayuti’s game again?

Hindustan Times

Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar/Beed: Marathwada, comprising eight districts in central Maharashtra, played a significant part in skewing the numbers against the ruling Mahayuti in the Lok Sabha elections six months ago. Marathwada, which has 46 assembly seats, has seen many stalwart leaders such as Raosaheb Danve, Pankaja Munde and Pratap Chikhalikar, backed by former chief minister Ashok Chavan, lose their seats …

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1 month, 1 week ago

BJP MLA faces backlash over remark against Marathas at rally in Jalna

The Hindu

BJP MLA and former Maharashtra minister Babanrao Lonikar is under fire from the Marathas over his alleged remark during an election rally that the community's strength can be "counted on fingers". Mr. Lonikar's remark at a rally in the Partur assembly constituency in Jalna on November 12 has invited the ire of quota activist Manoj Jarange, who criticised him for …

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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 …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Maratha quota protests handiwork of Opposition: Dhananjay Munde

India Today

Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra agriculture minister Dhananjay Munde, who is facing a likely Maratha polarisation in his constituency of Parli in the assembly elections, says there is politics at play behind the protests seeking quotas for Marathas and that the Opposition camp is involved in it. In the Lok Sabha elections, his cousin and former minister Pankaja …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Those claiming Hindus in danger denying reservation to Marathas: Manoj Jarange Patil

The Hindu

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil has said those who claim Hindus are in danger and seek their unity are responsible for denying reservation to Marathas, as he claimed that voters are ready to hand over a drubbing to the BJP-led ruling coalition in the Maharashtra Assembly polls. Asked about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pitch to voters to re-elect the …

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Maharashtra polls: Those claiming Hindus in danger denying reservation to Marathas, says Manoj Jarange Patil

Live Mint

Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar:Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil has said those who claim Hindus are in danger and seek their unity are responsible for denying reservation to Marathas, as he claimed that voters are ready to hand over a drubbing to the BJP-led ruling coalition in the Maharashtra assembly polls. Asked about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pitch to voters to …

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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 …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Opinion: 6 X-factors that will decide fate of Maharashtra in assembly polls

India Today

With the last date of withdrawal and Diwali festivities over, the battle for Maharashtra enters its last leg. The index of chemistry of alliance, which is pre-poll vote share divided by post-poll vote share, is higher for the MVA at 79 per cent; for the Mahayuti, it’s 64 per cent for Lok Sabha elections 2024. On average, Others have won …

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A litmus test for Marathas

The Hindu

If the Mahayuti wins the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra, and the Bharatiya Janata Party gets more seats, a non-Maratha leader could become the Chief Minister, thus challenging the historical hegemony of the Maratha elite. Importantly, the emergence of new political forces, mainly the BJP, has facilitated the rise of other social groups, particularly among OBCs and certain sections of …

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Nanded bypoll a battle of prestige for Cong, BJP

Hindustan Times

Nanded: The bypoll to the Nanded Lok Sabha constituency – necessitated due to the demise of Congress MP Vasantrao Chavan soon after the elections earlier this year – has emerged as a high stakes battle for the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress. The BJP has opted for its district president Santuk Hambarde over former MP Pratap Chikhalikar, who lost …

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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 …

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Assembly Polls: The million mutinies of Maharashtra

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: Through 2017-2018, Mantralaya, Maharashtra’s seat of governance at Nariman Point, faced the peculiar problem of petitioners throwing themselves off the higher floors into the quadrangle below to protest government inaction or delay. Assembly Polls: The million mutinies of Maharashtra In September this year, however, instead of the common folk, it was members of the ruling alliance led by deputy …

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How BJP captured western Maharashtra, won over Marathas? Devendra Fadnavis replies

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

Maharashtra election: Seven reasons for Mahayuti’s unprecedented victory

Mastermind behind Mahayuti’s Maharashtra triumph: Not Shinde, Fadnavis, but an RSS-linked power player

From the India Today archives (2019) | Devendra Fadnavis: The marathon man

How Mahayuti won Maharashtra: The four trump cards

Economic and political power are intertwined in Maharashtra

Manoj Jarange-Patil's post-poll mission: 'Marathas want OBC quota, and will take it'

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

Will Yogi Adityanath’s ‘batenge toh katenge’ slogan help or harm BJP in Maharashtra elections?

Will ally RSP's exit queer the pitch for Mahayuti in Maharashtra polls?

Maharashtra polls: Two Bhujbals, two seats, and vendetta politics

Maharashtra polls: Will Marathwada spoil Mahayuti’s game again?

BJP MLA faces backlash over remark against Marathas at rally in Jalna

Why is there widespread discontent in Maharashtra?

Maratha quota protests handiwork of Opposition: Dhananjay Munde

Those claiming Hindus in danger denying reservation to Marathas: Manoj Jarange Patil

Maharashtra polls: Those claiming Hindus in danger denying reservation to Marathas, says Manoj Jarange Patil

Why is Maharashtra poll fray fragmented?

Opinion: 6 X-factors that will decide fate of Maharashtra in assembly polls

A litmus test for Marathas

Nanded bypoll a battle of prestige for Cong, BJP

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

Assembly Polls: The million mutinies of Maharashtra