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From Pawar-battle in Baramati to Gadkari's fight in Nagpur, key seats to watch out for in MaharashtraThe electoral landscape in Maharashtra is dynamic with key battles in constituencies like Baramati, Nagpur, and Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg. Polit...
After NCP split, Maha Congress leaders told to close ranks, and begin poll workCongress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leader Rahul Gandhi appealed to the 20-odd senior state Congress leaders to strengthen the...
A dozen Maharashtra BJP MLAs, Rajya Sabha MP in crossover talks with MVAAround a dozen BJP MLAs and a Rajya Sabha MP from the state are learnt to be negotiating with leaders of the ruling trio for a possible cro...
NCP-Congress ready to play ball if Uddhav Thackeray crosses the rubiconNotwithstanding Congress ‘ideological dilemma’, sources privy to the confabulations between Maharashtra Congress leaders and Pawar and betw...
Karnataka Congress rejoices over defectors’ defeatProminent defeated defectors include Udayanraje Bhosale, who quit the NCP and lost the Satara Lok Sabha bypoll, and Alpesh Thakor, who quit...
Win some, lose some for BJP & CongressByelections for 51 assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats saw both, the BJP and Congress draw some positives. In Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar suf...
Prominent defectors in BJP first list of 125; 12 MLAs denied ticketsAfter the BJP and Shiv Sena released their list of candidates, party workers in more than half a dozen seats were seen engaged in angry alt...
Defectors will become history, says Sharad PawarSeveral NCP leaders including former ministers have crossed over to the ruling BJP or Shiv Sena ahead of the state elections.
CM Devendra Fadnavis reshuffles cabinet, three months before pollsEx-NCP and Congress leaders found place in the cabinet as CM Fadnavis Dropped 6 and inducted 13 ministers.
Maharashtra elections: No party will get 145 seats, BJP-Shiv Sena will have to come togetherThe reason being that the latter had great respect for Advani and had suggested Swaraj’s name as the NDA’s prime ministerial nominee.
Congress fields 27 women; BJP 21 in Maharashtra pollsCongress has fielded the highest number of women (27) candidates followed by BJP 21, NCP 16 and Shiv Sena 10 women candidates for the polls.
Maharashtra Congress, NCP leaders in war of words over "merger" remarksPatangrao Kadam, forest minister, had said yesterday that it is the right time for NCP president Sharad Pawar to merge his party with the C...
Praful Patel, Chhagan Bhujbal among NCP's 18 LS nominees from MaharashtraPraful Patel and Chhagan Bhujbal, who is NCP's OBC face, are among 18 candidates announced by the party today for Lok Sabha polls.
- Political turncoats in for a close call
Thane is a peculiar place. Though close to the country’s financial capital, it’s largely semi-rural and comprises Thane city and Navi Mumba...
- Pawar-baiter Adik likely to join him
Congress leader Govindrao Adik, ignored during the recent cabinet reshuffle in Maharashtra, has called for unification of Congress and NCP.
- Cong cold to NCP, SP seat demands in Chhattisgarh, MP
The Congress party has decided not to oblige to `territorial ambitions’ of the SP and NCP in the assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and Chhat...
- Drubbing for Cong in M’rashtra LS bypolls
Urban backlash in Erandol, Jalgoan and Ramtek.