With several corporations throwing up fractured mandates & an intense tug-of-war for power, especially among Mahayuti allies, hectic parleys are on to stake claim to urban local bodies.
Mumbai: After dominating the municipal council polls across the state, the Mahayuti and, especially, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) further strengthened its presence in urban...
In a city without elected corporators since 2022, all competing parties have attempted to solidify their core bases through their manifestos, with infra promises & unmistakable signals.
Alliance also promises interest-free loans to women along with a 50 percent concession on bus fares, slum redevelopment & AI-aided deportation of illegal immigrants.
NCP leaders say BJP’s constant poaching of leaders from allied parties has also not gone down well with them. Polls to 29 municipal corporations will be held on 15 January.
Similar alliances are already being explored for civic polls in places such as Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. Sunday’s results will give a shot in the arm to that experiment.
Shinde-led Shiv Sena emerged as the second strongest party after BJP, showing that the deputy CM has cultivated an individual space for himself within Maharashtra, political watchers say,
On Tuesday, court issued arrest warrant against Kokate who has already moved Bombay High Court challenging verdict. His portfolios will now be under Deputy CM Ajit Pawar.
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Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
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