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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicDhananjay Munde

Topic: Dhananjay Munde

Delhi’s housing crisis—no takers for the 50,000+ flats built for urban poor

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Why Dhananjay Munde’s resignation is a ‘big blow’ to Mahayuti govt’s image

The NCP MLA, who shares close ties with Ajit Pawar, resigned as a minister Tuesday after his aide was accused of murdering a sarpanch in Maharashtra's Beed district—Munde's stronghold.

Dhananjay Munde: Ajit Pawar aide with chequered past & now Mahayuti’s first casualty

Dhananjay Munde resigned as minister Tuesday after his aide, Walmik Karad, was charge-sheeted for the death of Santosh Deshmukh, the BJP sarpanch in Munde’s home district, Beed.

Amid row over his link to Beed sarpanch murder accused, Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde resigns

Nationalist Congress Party MLA Dhananjay Munde resigned citing health reasons. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis has accepted his resignation & forwarded it to the Governor.

Turmoil in Mahayuti as BJP MLA joins Oppn call for Dhananjay Munde’s resignation over sarpanch murder

Oppn demanding resignation of Munde, who belongs to Ajit Pawar-led NCP, due to his association with Walmik Karad, who is being investigated for possible links to the sarpanch's death.

With links to extortion accused & ‘mini-Pakistan’ jibe, 2 Mahayuti ministers put Fadnavis in a spot

Maharashtra ministers Dhananjay Munde of Ajit Pawar-led NCP and Nitesh Rane of BJP are under opposition fire. Both are not new to controversy.

Pankaja Munde says she won’t leave BJP, directs questions of ‘why she is overlooked’ to party

Munde, a BJP national gen secy, holds press conference amid rumours of her planning to join Congress, says she intends to take two-month vacation from 'this brand of politics'.

162 Sena-NCP-Congress MLAs gather in Mumbai in show of strength

The MLAs took an oath not to fall prey to any inducements by BJP as NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Maharashtra isn't Goa.

BJP’s Pankaja Munde concedes defeat to cousin Dhananjay in Maharashtra’s Parli

The result of the Parli seat has not been declared yet, but Pankaja Munde was trailing behind NCP's Dhananjay Munde by almost 30,000 votes.

On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.