BJP's main Maratha face in Thane, Chavan, is expected to use his organisational strength & grassroots connections in the Konkan to pull in urban votes during the MMR local body polls.
Despite its sizable Muslim population, both Hindus and Muslims have lived in harmony in this coastal belt. But for past few years, cracks have appeared and so has tension.
ThePrint explains Maharashtra’s 6 regions and dominant issues in play in each, from polarisation and big-ticket infra to ‘Maratha vs OBC’ and demands of onion farmers and sugar belt.
MVA has already announced to hold a protest against Mahayuti government on 1 September. BJP had first won Lok Sabha elections followed by MLC polls in Sena's stronghold Konkan.
Raj Thackeray’s MNS Wednesday launched an agitation to flag inordinate delays in widening of Mumbai-Goa highway. Work on the highway has been going on since 2010.
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Zuppa & DBZ to collaborate to allow field units to fabricate structural components, assemble mission-ready drones, and deploy them in real time for surveillance, logistics, or tactical operations.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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