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May 23 - May 25, 2020
This was the third time in the state’s fifty-nine-year-old history that it was under President’s Rule.
With the outside support of the NCP, Devendra Fadnavis became the first BJP chief minister of Maharashtra.
Later Amit Shah told his party leader21 at the Sahyadri Guest House in Malabar Hill that he had not forgotten the remarks made by the Shiv Sena against him and Modi, and that they would wait for an opportunity to teach them a lesson.
Bala Dhanorkar, the
announced that the ticket would go to Vinayak Bangade, a little-known name.
Vinayak Bangade was replaced by the giant-killer Dhanorkar at the eleventh hour.
Congress. Dhanorkar was the only Congress candidate who won in the general elections. He defeated four-time sitting MP from the BJP, Hansraj Ahir, by 44,763 votes.
Ashok Chavan,
The simplicity in his nature and kindness mesmerized us,’ said Thorat.
Sujay Vikhe Patil, had
Sharad Pawar had said that neither Parth nor his grandnephew Rohit Pawar would be contesting in the Lok Sabha 2019 polls.
In On My Terms,36 his autobiography, Pawar narrated an incident about his very first brush with political and administrative
S.K. Patil was vying for the post of the chief minister of Bombay region.
Marathi people had no akkal—brain to rule.’
On 16 January 1956, the central government issued a notification declaring Bombay a Union Territory and two other separate states— Maharashtra, along with Vidarbha, and Gujarat.
On 31 October 1956, Bombay was born as a new state and on 1 November, it was formally established. Yashwantrao Chavan took the oath as the chief minister of the Bombay State.
The United Maharashtra Front kept the fire burning by focusing on the issue of retaining Bombay within Maharashtra.
The Congress called its legislative meeting and elected Yashwantrao Chavan as the chief minister of the new state of Maharashtra.
Chavan, Maharashtra was born on 1 May 1960.
Sena. As a cartoonist, young Thackeray admired the work of New Zealand–born British political cartoonist David Low.
Thackeray belonged to the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu (CKP) caste which traces its roots to Bihar.
After his falling out with Free Press Journal, Bal Thackeray and some of his journalist friends started News Day, an English periodical.
On 13 August 1960, Bal Thackeray decided to launch his weekly magazine of cartoons—Marmik (poignant)—with the help of his brother Shrikant Thackeray, the father of Raj Thackeray who founded the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing organization, in its weekly magazine Vivek included a piece on Marmik
after the latter had completed a year, in which it called Marmik the ‘propaganda machinery’ of the incumbent Congress government.
Once this was established, Bal Thackeray decided to float his political outfit—the Shiv Sena—on 19 June 1966, at Shivaji Park, Dadar.
Thackeray demanded 80 per cent reservation for the Marathi manoos in government jobs and government-developed housing colonies.
A few decades before this coveted city drew so much attention, it was nothing but a mosquito-breeding spot.16 The place came to be called by the Portuguese as ‘Bom Bahia’, meaning ‘the good bay’ which was later transformed into ‘Bombay’ by the British.
In 1851, the first cotton mill of India was started in Bombay.
In Bombay, the Marathi-speaking population was often ridiculed as ghatis by the Gujarati, Marwari and Parsi merchants.
When Bombay became the capital of Maharashtra in 1960, the Marathi-speaking people were often ridiculed by the Gujaratis. The
Among Gujaratis, there exists a perception that the Marathi people being poor always tried to exploit the prosperous Gujaratis.
Desai had vehemently opposed the move to hand over Bombay to Maharashtra.
In fact, Thackeray was Bombay and Bombay was Thackeray.
constituency. Mahadik won this election by a small margin and he was the first Shiv Sena MLA who went to Maharashtra state assembly.
The Sena was so close to Congress’s Vasantrao Naik, who was the chief minister of Maharashtra from 1963 to 1975, that
years. Later, Gopinath Munde married Pramod Mahajan’s sister.
In 1980, Janata Party had been dissolved and the Bharatiya Janata Party had been formed in its place under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
In the 1984 Lok Sabha elections, only two BJP candidates had been elected to the Parliament—Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani.
The OBC category constitutes more than 50 per cent of the population in India.
‘We suffered a lot by mixing religion with the politics . . .’ His brand of politics is exactly the opposite of his father’s extremist ideas.
outfit—the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena—on 19 March 2006.
Mumbai. MNS had more MLAs than the Shiv Sena in Mumbai city in the 2009 state polls.
Raj Thackeray’s anti-north Indian tirade did not yield the same dividends as his uncle’s anti-south Indian speeches had done in the 1960s.
Once a promising leader, Raj Thackeray was now on the verge of political demise.
journalist. In Mumbai, people try to gather together under the banner of Marathi manoos but once one crosses the borders of Mumbai, people are divided along the lines of caste and creed.
No one had dared to challenge the Thackerays in Mumbai. The word of a Thackeray had always been the last word, be it in Bollywood or political matters concerning Mumbai.
The ED had exposed the hollowness of some members of the strongest political families of Maharashtra.
Senior BJP leaders are of the opinion that this was no coincidence and the ED notice was a deliberate move overseen and blessed by Devendra
Fadnavis and Amit Shah, to ensure a BJP victory in Maharashtra.
