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'Mahayuti' to focus on winning 45 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra: CM Eknath Shinde

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on October 18 said constituents of the ‘Mahayuti’ (grand alliance) will now focus on winning 45 out of the total 48 Lok Sabha seats in the State, in the general elections due next year.

The Hindu

Maharashtra: Shiv Sena(Shinde) stakes claim to 22 Lok Sabha seats

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Ekanth Shinde late on Monday held a meeting of all 13 Shiv Sena MPs and initiated preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The Times of India

Certain powers seeking anarchy are backing INDIA bloc, claims Fadnavis

Deputy CM Fadnavis alleges unlawful powers backing INDIA bloc, claims none of its leaders have national presence. PM Modi's return in 2024 election desired by people, but dynastic parties, jealous of India's rise, allegedly attempting to derail progress. Fadnavis says Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav incapable of providing national…

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BJP’s new lows and a tradition of communal lexicon

BJP MP from South Delhi Ramesh Bhiduri let loose a barrage of abuse on BSP’s Kunwar Danish Ali in the Lok Sabha last week. In a letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, Ali said Bhiduri had hurled the “most foul, abusive invectives” at him. Among the flurry of epithets…

Newslaundry

Will raise Muslim quota issue with Maharashtra CM Shinde and Deputy CM Fadnavis to find road ahead: Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said he had held a meeting with the State Minorities Department Minister and officials and would raise the Muslim quota issue with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to find a road ahead.

The Hindu

We will approach Supreme Court if no action is taken on petition to disqualify Neelam Gorhe, two MLCs: Anil Parab

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anil Parab has said his party will approach the Supreme Court if no action is taken on their disqualification plea against three MLCs who switched over to the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

The Hindu

It was the BJP that broke alliance in 2014, says Shiv Sena (UBT)

Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Sanjay Raut said that it was the BJP that severed the long-standing alliance between the two parties in 2014

The Hindu

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Which are the 26 parties in the INDIA combine, the face of Opposition unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls?

A total of 26 parties are now part of the Opposition INDIA combine. We explore each of these parties and examine their standing in Parliament.

The Hindu

Deciphering Maharashtra’s defections, its politics

The national context is important because the politics of Maharashtra, like the politics of Assam, deeply intersects with the slow-moving terrain of national politics

The Hindu

EC has no right to take Shiv Sena name from us: Uddhav Thackeray

Uddhav Thackeray reminded the BJP that it was the Shiv Sena who helped build their party on its shoulders when the latter “was nothing”. Read more on The Hindu

The Hindu

Uddhav accuses BJP of 'splitting' other parties as it wasn't confident of winning polls on its own

Uddhav Thackeray, who was on a tour of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, also accused the BJP-led Centre of raising issues like the Uniform Civil Code ahead of polls just to divert the attention of people for electoral gains.

The Hindu

Had BJP respected pre-2019 polls decision, its workers wouldn't have required to carry 'carpets' of others: Uddhav

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on July 9 said had the BJP respected the “decision” taken before the 2019 Maharashtra polls the BJP workers would not have required to carry “carpets” of other parties now

The Hindu

Raj Thackeray suspects Sharad Pawar’s hand in nephew Ajit’s defection

Remarking that it was Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar who first started the politics of party-splitting in the State, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday said that the current political scenario was “a gross insult to the voters of Maharashtra”.

The Hindu

Differences over UCC | Opposition parties are not ‘photocopies’ of each other, says Derek O’ Brien

Opposition parties are not “photocopies” of each other, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha Parliamentary leader Derek O’ Brien said on July 1, in the context of two of the 15 Opposition parties articulating divergent stances on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).

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Eknath Shinde faces a host of challenges as Sena-BJP govt. completes one year in office

It was on June 30, 2022, that Eknath Shinde took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after his revolt split the Shiv Sena and triggered the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. The CM faces a…

Dynamite News

Sanjay Raut appeals to UN Secretary-General: Observe June 20 as 'World Traitors Day'

On this day 40 legislators from Shiv Sena, including the current Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde rebelled against Uddhav Thackeray to split the Shiv Sena into two factions. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

Exodus continues from Uddhav camp; MLC and spokesperson Manisha Kayande joins Shinde’s Sena faction

MLC Manisha Kayande joined CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, becoming the second MLC to defect to the ruling camp

The Hindu

Maha Vikas Aghadi will win Mumbai civic polls, says Mumbai Congress chief Varsha Gaikwad

Interview with Varsha Gaikwad, prominent Dalit face of the Congress and four-time MLA from the country‘s biggest slum cluster, Dharavi, who became the first woman president of the Mumbai Congress unit and says Maha Vikas Aghadi will secure victory in the Mumbai civic polls because people prioritise basic civic amenities…

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Eknath Shinde is preferred over Devendra Fadnavis for Maharashtra CM, says advertisement citing ‘survey’

The friction arose between the partners after an advertisement placed in newspapers by the Shinde-led Shiv Sena quoted a survey which claimed Mr. Shinde was more preferred as CM than Mr. Fadnavis.

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Maharashtra: Sanjay Raut reacts to Amit Shah's Nanded speech, says "Fear of Thackeray and Shiv Sena visible..."

Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah's extensive speech in Nanded on Uddhav Thackeray shows that BJP is still scared of his party leader and Shiv Sena. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

BJP should have never aligned with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra’s 2019 election: BJP national general secretary

The undivided Shiv Sena and BJP together won a comfortable majority in the 288-member Assembly, but Mr. Thackeray broke the decades-old alliance after accusing the BJP of not sharing the Chief Ministerial tenure equally as promised.

The Hindu

A total of 22 MLAs, nine MPs from Shinde-led Shiv Sena feeling suffocated, could quit party: Sena (UBT)

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) on May 30 claimed that 22 MLAs and nine MPs from rival Shiv Sena were feeling suffocated due to “step-motherly treatment” by the BJP and could quit the group led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

The Hindu

MVA will contest Maharashtra assembly, Lok Sabha polls together to defeat Shiv Sena, BJP alliance, says Ajit Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Monday said that Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will contest the Maharashtra assembly and Lok Sabha polls together to defeat the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance.

The Hindu

No talks with Shiv Sena yet on seat sharing for Lok Sabha poll, says BJP

In 2019, the consolidated Shiv Sena had contested the Lok Sabha election on 22 seats.

The Hindu

MVA's LS poll seat-sharing not fixed yet, but our 19 seats will remain with us: Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on May 19 asserted that although the seat sharing formula among the Maha Vikas Aghadi partners for the next year’s Lok Sabha elections is yet to be finalised, the number of 19 seats that the Shiv Sena (undivided) won in the last election will…

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