Voters' verdict was overwhelmingly in favour of Shinde, who won 57 seats, surpassing the 2019 tally of the undivided Shiv Sena at 56. Shiv Sena (UBT) stares at existential crisis.
While alleging subversion of 'level playing field', Jairam Ramesh avoids pointed attack on EVMs, in contrast with approach after Congress's defeat in Haryana assembly elections.
In the Congress stronghold, Rajesh Khandare from Shinde's Shiv Sena is in second position. Uddhav Thackeray had vowed to scrap the Dharavi redevelopment tender if he returned to power.
Dy CM Ajit Pawar has held on to Baramati assembly seat since 1991. He lost the first round in NCP vs NCP fight when his wife Sunetra lost to Supriya Sule in Lok Sabha elections.
Local BJP unit had informed state leadership that it would not campaign for Sattar, while in Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar, the party had earlier announced it would not support Malik.
CBI has summoned cyber expert Gaurav Mehta, whose name came up after ex-IPS officer Ravindranath Patil accused Supriya Sule & Nana Patole of using scam funds to finance poll campaign.
BVA workers claimed they caught BJP's Vinod Tawde ‘red-handed’ distributing cash. Hitendra Thakur and son Kshitij are in fray in Vasai and Nalasopara seats, respectively.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Whatever issue congress come up with BJP is clearly most of the time able to show quite correctly that congress has also done same thing in the past for example the issue of reservation. Rahul gandhi talks about breaking the reservation limit and giving more power to sc, st and obc but it is congress which since independence has been against reservation, their is no sc, st, obc leader in congress which BJP has easily proven. The guarantee that congress gave in karnataka, telangana, Himachal which won them power have also been adopted by BJP so their is nothing with congress to prove that it is better than BJP infact it is worse and the chances of Congress winning are next to nothing against BJP only public anger towards BJP can make congress win which has not reached that level
When Vir Sanghvi, a Congress loyalist to the bone, starts questioning Rahul Gandhi, one cannot but wonder where things are headed.
Vir Sanghvi’s pain and hurt at Congress’ misfortunes is quite understandable.
Whatever issue congress come up with BJP is clearly most of the time able to show quite correctly that congress has also done same thing in the past for example the issue of reservation. Rahul gandhi talks about breaking the reservation limit and giving more power to sc, st and obc but it is congress which since independence has been against reservation, their is no sc, st, obc leader in congress which BJP has easily proven. The guarantee that congress gave in karnataka, telangana, Himachal which won them power have also been adopted by BJP so their is nothing with congress to prove that it is better than BJP infact it is worse and the chances of Congress winning are next to nothing against BJP only public anger towards BJP can make congress win which has not reached that level
The only way Congress is relevant in Indian politics is to get rid of the Gandhi family else BJP will carry on forever
CONgress needs to stop listening to charlatans masquerading as journalists, to begin with.
When Vir Sanghvi, a Congress loyalist to the bone, starts questioning Rahul Gandhi, one cannot but wonder where things are headed.
Vir Sanghvi’s pain and hurt at Congress’ misfortunes is quite understandable.