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  How Maharashtra was pushed to President's Rule

  Politics | November 12, 2019 19:42 IST

  20 days after elections, Maharashtra has ended up with President's Rule. Despite hectic parleys, no party could prove numbers before Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, who exhausted all options before sending a report to the Centre after which the cabinet recommended President's Rule.

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  Hum Honge Kamyaab: Sanjay Raut after setback over govt formation

  Politics | November 12, 2019 11:04 IST

  Sanjay Raut was admitted to Mumbai's Lilavati hospital after he complained of uneasiness. Raut might have to undergo angiography, doctors have said. Sanjay Raut's sudden hospitalisation comes at a time when Shiv Sena is readying up to form government in Maharashtra amid an ongoing political crisis.

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  Maharashtra Congress leaders meet at Jaipur resort, discuss govt formation

  Politics | November 11, 2019 13:23 IST

  Sources said NCP chief Sharad Pawar may also meet the Congress president on Monday to discuss the possibility of the two parties supporting a Sena-led government. Kharge had earlier said in Jaipur that his party has "accepted" the public mandate to it to sit in the opposition in the state.

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  All 56 Shiv Sena MLAs to be lodged in private sea-facing hotel in Bandra

  Politics | November 07, 2019 17:57 IST

  A fortnight later, the political crisis in Maharashtra is only deepening further. According to news agency IANS, Shiv Sena has decided to shift all its 65 MLAs to a private sea-facing hotel in suburban Bandra till the state comes out of the present deadlock.

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  Maharashtra: Shiv Sena may come together with BJP, hints Joshi

  Politics | November 17, 2014 13:41 IST

  Mumbai: Amid speculation that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat spoke to Uddhav Thackeray to coax him for joining the Maharashtra government, Shiv Sena today struck an optimistic note saying an alliance with the BJP is possible."There

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  Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil named Maharashtra CLP leader

  Politics | November 10, 2014 11:37 IST

  New Delhi: Former state minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil was today elected as the Congress Legislature Party leader in Maharashtra, where the party has lost power.Patil, who was agriculture minister in the erstwhile Prithviraj Chavan Ministry,

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  Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis lacks acumen to run govt: Narayan Rane

  Politics | November 04, 2014 22:00 IST

  Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Narayan Rane today said BJP's first Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis lacks "acumen" and the administrative skills required to run government."Fadnavis is a good person (but) he lacks the administrative

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  Nagpur welcomes Fadnavis, first CM from the city

  Politics | November 03, 2014 10:35 IST

  Nagpur: Devendra Fadnavis was yesterday accorded with a grand welcome by people of Nagpur on his first visit to his hometown after becoming the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.44-year-old Fadnavis is the first Chief Minister to

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  Congress leader in Assembly to be elected before November 11: Thakre

  Politics | November 01, 2014 20:27 IST

  Mumbai: Congress' leader in the new Maharashtra Legislative Assembly will be chosen before November 11, state Congress president Manikrao Thakre said here today.A three-day special session of the legislature would be convened on November 11.“If

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  Sena ministers unlikely to join govt in Maharashtra tomorrow

  Politics | October 30, 2014 17:22 IST

  Mumbai: Shiv Sena is unlikely to join the Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra to be sworn in tomorrow as talks for a possible tie-up are on with it in an “amicable atmosphere”, BJP general secretary

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  Uddhav holds talks with Sena leaders, unlikely to be in government for now

  Politics | October 29, 2014 18:38 IST

  Mumbai: A day after Devendra Fadnavis was annointed Chief Minister-designate of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray today went into a huddle with top party leaders to discuss the future course of action but there

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  Shiv Sena praises Narendra Modi for hosting tea party

  Politics | October 28, 2014 13:36 IST

  New Delhi: With no option left to ‘corner' the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena now seems to be exploring all options to join hands with the saffron party to form the government in

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  Gadkari meets RSS chief, says no discussion on Maharashtra politics

  Politics | October 25, 2014 14:19 IST

  Nagpur: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and discussed ‘important' issues but said there was no talk on politics in Maharashtra where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in the process

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  BJP signals it is ready to do business once again with Shiv Sena

  Politics | October 22, 2014 7:58 IST

  New Delhi: Shedding its initial reservations, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) signaled it could do business with estranged ally Shiv Sena which sent two emissaries here for discussions with its leadership on government-formation in Maharashtra.At

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  Congress, NCP won't win more than 10 seats in Maharashtra polls: Modi

  Politics | October 12, 2014 17:45 IST

  Tuljapur: Training his guns on Congress and NCP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said both the parties will not win more than 10 seats each in the Maharashtra Assembly polls.“You all must have seen the

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  BJP, Shiv Sena would not have split if Balasaheb was alive: Rajnath Singh

  Politics | October 10, 2014 7:24 IST

  Mandrup (Maharashtra): Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance would not have broken had Bal Thackeray been alive."We have great respect for Bala Saheb Thackeray. If he were alive, the

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  Focus on Pakistan, not Maharashtra: Shiv Sena tells PM Modi

  Politics | October 08, 2014 12:13 IST

  Mumbai: Shiv Sena today attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of ceasefire violations by Pakistan, saying he should focus on stopping the ‘atrocities' by the neighbouring country and not Maharashtra politics.Claiming that Pakistan

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  Congress not responsible for end of alliance with NCP: Manikrao Thakre

  Politics | October 05, 2014 7:35 IST

  Mumbai: Asserting that it was not to blame for the snapping of a 15-year-old alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Congress party's state unit president Manikrao Thakre said on Saturday that the party's

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  BJP may have post-poll alliance with Shiv Sena: Kalraj Misra

  Politics | October 02, 2014 12:00 IST

  Mirzapur: Union Minister Kalraj Misra claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will emerge as the largest party in the upcoming Assembly polls in Maharashtra and said there may be a post-poll alliance with Shiv

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  Maharashtra polls: Uddhav Thackeray frowns at Modi rallies

  Politics | October 01, 2014 15:38 IST

  Mumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday wondered why has former ally BJP felt the need for holding "so many" election rallies by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Maharashtra."They say that there is a