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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicMaharashtra Crisis

Topic: Maharashtra Crisis

Maharashtra election body gets ready for pending local polls days, after Ajit Pawar switch

To the media, the SEC said this was a “routine exercise” they do before every election, adding that no dates had been announced yet.

Good news! ‘one-size uniform for everyone’ & ‘ED takes vacation break before Lok Sabha polls’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

SC verdict on Maharashtra political crisis today. CM Shinde, 15 other MLAs face likely disqualification

In March 2023, SC had reserved verdict on series of cross-petitions by 2 factions of Shiv Sena. One of them seeks disqualification of the MLAs who rebelled against Uddhav Thackeray.

Reference of Nabam Rebia ruling to 7-judge bench can’t be decided in ‘abstract manner’, says SC

The 2016 ruling says a speaker can't initiate disqualification proceedings against MLAs if a notice for her/his removal is pending. It came to rescue of MLAs led by Eknath Shinde last year.

Our take on ‘Rashtrapatni’ remark, SSC scam and Uddhav Thackeray—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

The many political battles in Maharashtra post Uddhav Thackeray’s resignation

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

12 of 19 Shiv Sena MPs join Shinde faction, tell LS speaker to identify them as ‘separate group’

At least 8 of these 12 MPs had attended a meeting called by Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray last week and some, expressing their unhappiness, asked him to ally with the BJP.

India’s anti-defection law didn’t stop power politics. It just moved from farmhouse to resort

Maharashtra turmoil shows Rajiv Gandhi's 1985 anti-defection law changed nothing, but only left India 'with the worst of both worlds'.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

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.