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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicBJP Maharashtra

Topic: BJP Maharashtra

Chandrakant Dada Patil reappointed BJP’s Maharashtra unit chief

Mangal Prabhat Lodha was also reappointed as the party's Mumbai chief. The BJP said the appointments will be applicable with immediate effect.

Pankaja Munde dares BJP at Beed show of strength, slams party but says won’t quit

Without naming former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Pankaja Munde said she was ‘very pained’ at the way BJP tied up with NCP last month.

Indians have small brains, BJP-Shiv Sena’s memory game and Kashmir’s ‘unofficial’ guests

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Exit polls predict BJP will romp home in Haryana & Maharashtra

BJP is expected to win 66 of 90 seats in Haryana, says the ‘Poll of Exit Polls’. In Maharashtra, BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is expected to bag 211 of 288 seats.

BJP has risen in Maharashtra by dismantling Sharad Pawar’s old empire piece by piece

NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s family has presided over a vast network of local elites for decades, creating a political equivalent of the gilded age.

BJP clips Nitin Gadkari’s wings in Maharashtra, keeps him on fringes of poll campaign 

Of the 49 rallies Nitin Gadkari has addressed this poll season in Maharashtra, only one has been outside his home turf Vidarbha.

BJP candidates around Mumbai’s Aarey Colony say tree felling not a poll issue for voters

Sitting BJP MLAs and candidates say, on the campaign trail, voters have barely mentioned the cutting of trees for a Metro car shed at Aarey Colony.

How Fadnavis went from being a promising MLA in 2009 to face of Maharashtra BJP in 2019

From a municipal councillor in Nagpur to the undisputed leader of the BJP in Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis has seen a phenomenal rise.

Why this BJP veteran who helped build party in Mumbai was dropped from Fadnavis cabinet

Six-time MLA Prakash Mehta, face of Mumbai's Gujarati community, was one of the few experienced faces in the Maharashtra government.

BJP wants ally on board, Shiv Sena says it’s in wait and watch mode

BJP and Shiv Sena leaders interpreted the meeting between Amit Shah and Uddhav Thackeray differently — BJP described it as “positive” but Sena struck a cautious note.

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Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.