While the NCP is eyeing all the plum portfolios — Finance, Irrigation and Energy, Transportation, Food supply, Sports and Youth Welfare, the Eknath Shinde group is adamant about not parting ways with such ministries.

It has been 8 days yet Ajit Pawar and other rebel MLAs did not get portfolios. The delay in power-sharing fuelled speculation that all is not well in all three ruling camps- BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP

Raj Thackeray's meeting with CM Eknath Shinde has once again triggered new speculations as to what could happen next in the Maharashtra politics.

NCP leader Ajit Pawar along with eight MLAs, including Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil and Hasan Mushrif, joined the Eknath Shinde government on Sunday, vertically splitting the party.

Maharashtra NCP president Jayant Patil said the party initiated legal action against rebels. However, neither Patil nor Ajit Pawar cleared how many MLAs are in their favour.

Eight additional NCP MLAs, in addition to Ajit Pawar, have been sworn in as state cabinet ministers. Hassan Mushrif, Chhagan Bhujbal, Dilip Walse Patil, Dhananjay Munde, and Aditi Tatkare are the newly elected ministers.

Mumbai: This action created panic among residents of the Mira Road society. They gathered together and started chanting 'Hanuman Chalisa' and raised slogans of 'Jai Shree Ram'.

Ajit Pawar in his address at the 24th Foundation Day event of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) held in Mumbai attended by his uncle Sharad Pawar and other senior leaders said that he was not interested in holding as Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra.

According to reports, some vehicles from Uddhav's security convoy has been reduced as per the protocol since he is not the state's chief minister anymore.

Maharashtra govt is set to investigate Uddhav Thackeray and his faction of the Shiv Sena while an SIT team will be constituted to probe the Municipal Corporation scam.

Apart from the drugs, more than Rs 1.10 crore cash and 186.6 gm gold jewellery were also recovered.

It's true that Sharad Pawar had informed me earlier about his retirement and said that Ajit I will not change my decision but now he has withdrawn his resignation considering the feelings of leaders, workers and our committee across the country, Ajit Pawar said.

Posters projecting Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawaras as the ‘future Chief Minister of Maharashtra’ has come up in parts of the states.

Maharashtra politics: Maharashtra may see another leadership change as according to sources BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis may take charge as CM swapping his post with Shinde.

Targetting the BJP, he said that "crushing other people and parties" with the support of central investigating agencies or letting loose goons to attack women leaders of opposing political parties 'is not our Hindutva'.

The Income Tax department on Wednesday conducted raids at producer Vinod Bhanushali's office and some other Bollywood production houses over allegations of tax evasion.

According to reports, with regard to the opposition's demand of forming a JPC over the Adani-Hinderburg issue, Sharad Pawar said that if 19 opposition parties are demanding a JPC and the government also agrees to it, then he has no problem.

Sena leader Sanjay Raut while speaking to India TV said that Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena will boycott Mallikarjun Kharge's dinner party today on the issue of Savarkar's insult. No leader of the party will attend the dinner.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde discussed the matter with several employees organisations who have gone on strike demanding the Old Pension Scheme. The Chief Minister said that the general public should not face any problems and urged them to take back their strike and find a solution through dialogue.

This comes days after the Election Commission recognised his faction as the "real Shiv Sena" and directed the allocation of the 'bow and arrow' poll symbol to it.