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TopicMaha Vikas Aghadi

Topic: Maha Vikas Aghadi

Sena-led Maharashtra coalition sweeps MLC polls, BJP set to lose stronghold Nagpur

The elections to the six Maharashtra Legislative Council seats were held Tuesday. The Sena contested on one seat, the Congress on three and NCP on two.

No more Brahmanwada, Maharwada — Maharashtra govt to change caste-based names of localities

Such localities and settlements within Maharashtra to now have names of historical leaders or ‘something else that is appropriate’.

Why CM Uddhav Thackeray is looking up to teachers and graduates to provide him stability

Defeat of MVA in the council polls would convince Rahul Gandhi even more that he was right and Ahmed Patel wrong about Congress joining hands with Shiv Sena.

Populist schemes, fiscal strain, tussles with Centre & Covid — Thackeray govt’s year in power

While the govt rolled out a few populist measures such as the farm loan waiver, it was unable to announce any major new development projects while grappling with Covid-19 crisis.

‘Do remember you also have family & children’ — Uddhav Thackeray lashes out at opposition

As MVA govt completes one year in Maharashtra, CM Thackeray in an interview to Saamana slams BJP on a number of issues & says alliance is functioning smoothly.

After uneasy year with Sena-NCP, Congress plays down rows, says Maharashtra govt won’t fall

The unlikely alliance between Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, the Maha Vikas Aghadi, completes one year on 28 November.

How NCP’s Ajit Pawar has remained politically relevant year after ‘midnight coup’

On 23 November 2019, Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra's deputy CM under a BJP govt led by Fadnavis. A year later, he still holds the post, but in a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress govt.

The 6 cases filed against Arnab Goswami & Republic TV in Maharashtra since 2018

The BJP and others allege that the six cases are the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s way to target Arnab Goswami and create an 'Emergency-like situation'.

Some Congress leaders feel Arnab’s arrest is ‘political vendetta’, but they’re keeping quiet

Privately, senior Congress leaders express discomfort with slew of cases against Arnab Goswami, but says party cadre has no love lost for him or Republic TV.

BJP sympathiser Sameet Thakkar latest, Sena’s filed 10 FIRs in 6 mths for ‘insulting CM, govt’

The cases filed by Shiv Sena have set the stage for the latest face-off between the party and erstwhile ally BJP, which has accused the former of misusing power to ‘silence detractors’.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.