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Mandate hijacked: The constitutional sin of the seven AAP defectors

On April 6, 2026, eighteen days before he led seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MPs into the Bharatiya Janata Party, Raghav Chadha posted photographs on Instagram. He sat in a garden reading Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power. “Somebody gifted me a book this week,” he wrote.…

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A Speaker’s flawed move to determine the real faction

The Maharashtra Speaker has erroneously tried to determine which faction is the real Shiv Sena

The Hindu

Don't 'reward' rebels with berths, posts: Shiv Sena to Maharashtra governor BS Koshyari

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena has urged governor B S Koshyari not to "reward" MLAs against whom disqualification proceedings are pending with ministerial berths or remunerative posts as it "would be totally destructive of the Constitutional scheme".

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Maharashtra power tussle: 9 rebel ministers stripped of portfolios

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday stripped nine rebel ministers, who are camping in Guwahati, of their portfolios.

The Times of India

Maharashtra political turmoil updates | June 27, 2022

Supreme Court takes on record Maharashtra Government’s statement that the lives and properties of 39 MLAs and their families will not come to any harm

The Hindu

Grim mood in Uddhav Thackeray camp: Sanjay Raut dares rebels to return

MUMBAI: As the face-off between the Shiv Sena leadership and the rebels drags on, the Thackeray camp has shed its reconciliatory approach.

The Times of India

Maharashtra MLC polls: CM Uddhav Thackeray rules out chances of cross-voting, says there won't be split in Shiv Sena-led MVA

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said the state Legislative Council elections to be held on Monday will show that there will be no split in his party-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and ruled out chances of cross-voting.

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Amit Shah seeks quick probe into cases of sexual offences

The Union Home Minister was chairing the western zonal council meeting in Diu

The Hindu

Maharashtra council polls: Shiv Sena drops Subhash Desai, BJP Pankaja Munde

MUMBAI: The stage is set for a bruising contest for the state legislative council polls on June 20, with the parties fielding 11 candidates for the 10 vacant seats. BJP has put up five, Congress and Shiv Sena two each, and NCP is expected to nominate two.

The Times of India

Maharashtra parties brace for council polls

Elections for ten seats in the upper house of the State legislature will be held on June 20

The Hindu

Both Houses of Maharashtra legislature pass Bill to make Marathi language mandatory in official works of local authorities

State Minister Subhash Desai said the introduction of the Bill was necessitated as the Maharashtra Official Language Act, 1964 did not make it mandatory for the local authorities to use Marathi in their official works

The Hindu

Shiv Sena's soft-spoken former Mumbai mayor & minister Sudhir Joshi no more

MUMBAI: Former mayor Sudhir Joshi, one of Balasaheb Thackeray's trusted lieutenants who took the Shiv Sena's message to the burgeoning Maharashtrian middle-class of the city five decades ago, passed away on Thursday. He was 82.

The Times of India

Maharashtra: MVA allies join hands to edge BJP out of nagar panchayats

MUMBAI: A day after state NCP president Jayant Patil, Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai and state Congress chief Nana Patole reached a consensus on joining forces for the nagar panchayat (municipal council) polls, it appears that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) banner will gain control over maximum councils in Maharashtra.

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