Mumbai, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Thursday said his party will not tolerate any attempt to separate Mumbai from Maharashtra, and asked ally Congress to reprimand its Karnataka MLA for demanding to declare the country's financial capital a Union Territory. He was apparently referring to Karnataka Congress MLA Laxman Savadi's reported statement that if leaders in Maharashtra are demanding …
Though it will be challenged in court, Speaker Rahul Narwekar’s verdict on Wednesday ruling that the Shinde faction is the real Shiv Sena marks the end of the Bal Keshav Thackeray era in Maharashtra politics. Second, the Mumbaikar Marathi manoos may, for sheer survival, rally behind Uddhav Thackeray in a last-ditch attempt to keep the fractured Sena going, and also …
Amid the ongoing row over Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s comment on Shivaji, which drew the ire of several political leaders in the state, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis’ wife Amruta Fadnavis has come out in his support, claiming that he ‘misinterpreted’. Koshyari kicked up a storm in the state on November 19 when he called Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj an ‘old …
The Shiv Sena, which is at the receiving end of an all-out attack by the Bharatiya Janata Party, is using its time-tested formula to get back at its bete noire. Earlier this month, Shiv Sena extended support to Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti candidate Shubham Shelke in the bypoll on the Belgaum seat. As Union minister and senior BJP leader from Maharashtra …
