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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicMaharashtra elections

Topic: Maharashtra elections

BJP’s sleight of hand in Maharashtra and Haryana has gone unnoticed

BJP has promised quotas to Marathas, Jats and upper caste poor without data to back the claim, and with conflicting aims.

BJP has risen in Maharashtra by dismantling Sharad Pawar’s old empire piece by piece

NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s family has presided over a vast network of local elites for decades, creating a political equivalent of the gilded age.

Why farmer suicides that peaked under BJP-Sena govt couldn’t become Maharashtra poll issue

Maharashtra has reported 31,523 farmer suicides since 1 January 2001 — 44%, or 13,820 of them, took place in last 5 yrs of BJP-led government.

Campaigning ends in Maharashtra and Haryana, over to 10.81 crore voters now

Maharashtra and Haryana will vote on 21 October. BJP is seeking a second straight term in both. Verdict on 24 October.

Manmohan Singh becomes the ‘voice’ of a voiceless leadership & Sena’s Rs 10 meal promise

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

‘Every ticket finalised in my presence’ — Gadkari says BJP not sidelining him in Maharashtra

In exclusive interview to ThePrint, Nitin Gadkari speaks about BJP’s chances in Maharashtra polls, economic slowdown, Savarkar, and farmer suicides, among other things.

What Bangladeshi media is saying about illegal immigrants from India

The number of illegal immigrants, of which 5 lakh are reportedly Biharis, in Bangladesh is swelling.

Maharashtra polls become bitter for Congress, NCP as sugar barons have switched to BJP

Most of the rich and powerful sugar cooperative owners of Maharashtra have abandoned their decades-old patrons in droves to join BJP, leaving Congress-NCP jittery.

BJP wants to do an Amethi in Baramati but doesn’t have a Smriti Irani to defeat Pawar clan

BJP is confident of winning the Maharashtra assembly elections. But its hopes in Baramati are tenuously hanging on ‘outsider’ Gopichand Padalkar.

Shiv Sena manifesto promises durable roads across urban Maharashtra, stays silent on Aarey

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray & son Aaditya release manifesto for 21 October Maharashtra polls, say ally BJP will release its own & they'll work together.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

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.