Chandrakant Patil's letter comes in the backdrop of ED probe into irregularities in functioning of MSC Bank, including lease of sugar mill to a company with links to Ajit Pawar.
The NCP and the BJP are locked in a direct fight in the bypoll, which was necessitated after the death of NCP legislator Bharat Bhalke due to post-Covid complications last November.
Voting for the Pandharpur-Mangalwedha bypoll is Saturday, and is the first assembly seat election after the 2019 state polls, which propelled the Maha Vikas Aghadi government to power.
The fire at the Bhandara district hospital, which led to the deaths of 10 infants, has also prompted the government to order an audit of neonatal units in the state.
BJP was confident the MVA govt wouldn’t last but has now spent a year in opposition — its image, of an unbeatable force with a ‘development first’ agenda, having taken a beating.
For 6 years, Fadnavis has had control of Maharashtra BJP but now there are murmurs of dissent against him, especially after the resignation of senior leader Eknath Khadse last week.
While BJP plans to launch protest & AIMIM’s Imtiaz Jaleel has threatened to offer namaz on road, individual leaders from ruling NCP, Congress have also written to govt to open places of worship.
Maharashtra BJP spokesman Avdhut Wagh sought to link Patil's criticism of PM Modi over the nationwide lockdown to the steep number of COVID-19 cases in his constituency.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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