One of the main contributors to the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi thrashing in Maharashtra was the "friendly fights" factor. Mahayuti Friendly Fights The ruling Mahayuti coalition, which includes the BJP, Eknath Shinde's faction of the Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar's NCP, competed against one another in seven constituencies: Constituency Friendly Contest Winner Mankhurd Shivajinagar Nawab Malik vs Suresh Patil Abu Azmi …
MLC Polls: Amid speculations over the possibility of cross-voting and horsetrading in the polls for the 11 Legislative Council seats scheduled for Friday in Maharashtra, Congress on Thursday held a dinner meeting at a hotel in Mumbai. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and NCP Maharashtra unit chief Jayant Patil attended the meeting. AICC in-charge of Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala was also …
MUMBAI: Two years after a legislative council election led to an upheaval in Maharashtra politics, with the fall of the then Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government and a split in the Shiv Sena, another election for 11 seats to the upper house of the state legislature has sparked off speculations and apprehension of cross-voting months before the assembly elections in the …
With no consensus on seat-sharing, the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and their smaller allies have ended up fielding candidates against each other. HT Image The Congress and NCP claim smaller parties like Swabhimani Sangathana, Peasants and Workers Party, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India, Samajwadi Party are part of their grand alliance. The Congress and …
The ruling BJP is set to become the single largest party in the Maharashtra Legislative Council after the biennial elections to eleven seats in the Upper House of the state legislature on July 16. Considering their numerical strength in the Legislative Assembly, the BJP can comfortably win five seats, the Shiv Sena three, while Congress-NCP can safely win one seat …