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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicChandrakant Patil

Topic: Chandrakant Patil

Chandrakant Patil’s ‘heavy heart’ gets a soft message from BJP: ‘Know when to speak what’

Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren supported NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu in the presidential poll with a 'heavy heart'. In the case of V-P, there is no such compulsion but he's said to go with NDA pick.

What bypoll loss means for Maharashtra BJP chief, Amit Shah aide & ABVP alum who shoots from hip

Chandrakant Patil had proclaimed ahead of Kolhapur North bypoll this month that he would quit politics and take refuge in Himalayas if party did not win. BJP lost the election.

A ‘Congress Singh’ takes charge of BJP’s UP unit as party hopes to win OBC votes

The former journalist is better known as Swantantra Dev Singh. Maratha leader Chandrakant Patil picked for Maharashtra BJP chief post.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.