November 10, 2022 2:11 pm
Experts cite lack of opposition and smooth transfer of Cong and NCP votes as possible factors
November 28, 2019 6:26 pm
Tthe CMP also mentions setting up of Re 1 clinics at the taluka level across the state that will provide basic screening of people. The program also guarantees to provide health insurance cover to every citizen of the state.
October 25, 2019 2:01 am
Maharashtra Congress president Vijay (Balasaheb) Thorat admitted that the “verdict would have been different if the Congress-NCP had wrested some more seats in Mumbai and other urban belts.”
June 17, 2019 1:27 am
Claiming that the NCP’s demand was “highly unreasonable and unfair”, Pune Congress spokesperson Ramesh Iyer said, “The 6-2 formula is not acceptable to us. It should be 4-4 formula.”
June 07, 2019 7:41 pm
"Congress-NCP called us 'B team' of BJP during Lok Sabha polls. So, they should first clarify what is our status now. The talk of alliance can happen after that," Prakash Ambedkar said regarding an offer to form an anti-BJP coalition in the state.
March 20, 2019 3:38 pm
Ranjitsinh, who was a Rajya Sabha member of the NCP, joined the BJP in presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. This comes a week after Sujay Vikhe Patil, the son of Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, joined the BJP.
January 23, 2019 10:31 am
Prakash Ambedkar’s party has demanded 12 seats from Cong-NCP alliance, Raju Shetti’s Swabhimani Paksh wants six. Meanwhile, the AIMIM has said that it did not intend to join the Congress-led alliance.
April 26, 2018 6:40 pm
Asked whether the Shiv Sena, the bickering ally of the ruling BJP, would be a part of the Congress-NCP alliance in future, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sunil Tatkare said he saw no such possibility.
February 13, 2018 3:37 am
In August last year, Shetti quit the BJP-led NDA alleging the Modi government had failed to keep its word on the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations on MSP to farmers.
May 02, 2016 2:47 am
“I am afraid to say that the previous Congress government seemed to have been better than the BJP,” he said.