NCP's Ajit Pawar who is part of the Mahayuti alliance said that the Maharashtra government formation decision will be taken at around 9 PM after meeting with Amit Shah in New Delhi.

The suspense over who would get the top post in Maharashtra continues after the ruling Mahayuti coalition's spectacular success in the recently concluded Assembly elections.

PM Modi joined celebrations at BJP headquarters following the party’s landslide victory in Maharashtra Assembly elections and strong bypoll results in Uttar Pradesh. BJP President JP Nadda calls it a lesson for opposition alliances.

Maharashtra Assembly Election Results 2024: The counting of votes in the Maharashtra assembly elections began at 8 am Saturday, with all eyes on the outcome of the battle between the ruling BJP-led Mahayuti coalition and the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.

Earlier in the day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah cancelled his poll rallies in Maharashtra and returned to New Delhi to hold a meeting on the Manipur issue. The fresh violence started on Saturday after three bodies of missing women and children were found.

Maharashtra Assembly Elections: Maharashtra will go to polls in a single phase on November 20 and the counting of votes will take place on November 23. The term of the current Maharashtra Assembly will end on November 26, 2024.

In a bid to strengthen its electoral prospects, the Delhi BJP has set up a state election steering committee to lead its campaign for the 2025 Assembly elections.

In a concerning development, Islamic radicals and some Ulema in Bangladesh have issued threats of violence against the Hindu community, demanding that the interim government ban the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

The Election Commission has been checking the bags of the leaders campaigning for the assembly elections. Earlier the bags and helicopters of Uddhav Thackeray, and Devendra Fadnavis were also checked by the EC officials.

Born in 1875 in present-day Jharkhand, Munda had challenged British rule and is credited with mobilising tribals against the empire. He died in British custody at a young age of 25 years.

A former Congressman Sunil Jakhar, who served as MLA thrice from the Abohar assembly constituency and also as Lok Sabha MP from Gurdaspur, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in May 2022.

The Home Ministry in its notification dated November 13 stated that HNLC and its factions engage in activities that endanger India’s sovereignty, including efforts for secession, extortion, and ties with other insurgent groups.

The Modi-led government on August 5, 2019, abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution which provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir within the Indian Union and bifurcated the erstwhile state into two union territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, addressing a public meeting in Parbhani's Jintur, expressed confidence in the Mahayuti's win in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday sharply criticised Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, accusing him of forgetting his family’s tragic history at the hands of Hyderabad Nizam Razakars for the sake of vote-bank politics and appeasement.

Significantly, during the public rally, Shah took a dig at Congress by accusing them of being an "anti-backward class" party. The Union Minister cited several instances where he claimed Congress' anti-backward stance had been exposed.

Ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections, Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati extended support to Mahayuti. He urged people to bring the coalition into power again.

Amit Shah in Jharkhand claimed that Champai Soren was insulted when he raised the infiltration issue and was forced to resign from CM's post by Hemant Soren.

Maharashtra elections: The Maharashtra Assembly elections are scheduled for November 20, with counting for all 288 constituencies set for November 23.

The Union Minister also charged the Congress and JMM of spreading lies that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will claim tribal rights making it clear that the saffron party will put tribals out of its ambit.