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May 23 - May 25, 2020
Modi once in his speech had referred to Pawar as his political guru.
‘Modi never misses an opportunity to praise Pawar saheb. Politics is all about to give and take,’
A journalist who covered these agencies told this author54 that after S.K. Mishra joined as the head of the ED in Delhi, an anonymous release of notes to the press began.
This statement of not bowing before Delhi changed the political narrative of Maharashtra completely. It
The relations between Gujarat and Maharashtra had been strained since the 1960s.
But Pawar as an experienced home minister on his own increased the number of blasts from 11 to 12. He also informed the same to media. He added Masjid Bander—a Muslim dominated area to the list of places where blasts had taken place, even though the blast had not taken place there . . . It [his decision] was later praised by everyone. It averted the big disaster in Mumbai,’ wrote Deshpande.
Parth Pawar was
elections. Rohit Pawar, Sharad
After the resignation of Sunil Tatkare as state party president, Ajit Pawar had recommended Dhananjay Munde as his successor.
Ajit Pawar, meanwhile, had gone incommunicado, but his son Parth Pawar, who had lost the preceding Lok Sabha polls, started giving statements to the media.
A senior NCP leader said, ‘Ajit Pawar is afraid of going to jail. He does not want to be like Chhagan Bhujbal who was in jail for two years in connection with a money laundering scam
Sharad Pawar had formed the Nationalist Congress Party on 25 May 1999.
On 10 June 1999, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) called its first convention in Mumbai.
After 2009, while the NCP had shrunk, it still had a presence in western Maharashtra.
As the proverb goes, when the ship starts to sink, the rats are the first ones to desert it.
Thanks to these coercive tactics, thirty-nine sitting legislators and leaders of the Congress and the NCP defected.
Maharashtra was facing the worst ever drought in some parts, while western Maharashtra was reeling under heavy rainfall.
Chief Minister Fadnavis and his trusted aide Girish Mahajan, known as the Amit Shah of Maharashtra,7 had engineered a mass defection from the Opposition camp.
Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
Senior NCP leader Ganesh Naik was a minister for fifteen years in the NCP government. His son Sandeep Naik, the NCP MLA from Airoli (Navi Mumbai),
Kripashankar Singh resigned from the party citing the party’s anti-national stand over the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir.
NCP. Senior leader and ex-minister of the NCP, Anil Deshmukh,
He later won the elections and is at present the home minister of Maharashtra.
eleven times MLA, Ganpatrao Deshmukh, decided to opt out from the electoral fray.
Former minister and senior NCP leader Padamsinh Patil from Osmanabad,
left the NCP along with his MLA son Rana Jagjit Singh Patil and joined the BJP.
‘Once my party elected sixty MLAs and out of sixty, fifty-two left me. I was the leader of only eight MLAs in the house but I did not lose hope.
The BMC was the soul of the Shiv Sena, and it seemed to be slipping from the iron-tight grip of the BJP.
Shiv Sena chief, Uddhav Thackeray, on 28 September 2019, said that ‘today or tomorrow’ there will be a chief minister for Maharashtra, and the person would be from the Shiv Sena.
In the meeting, the BJP had decided to contest the 162 seats while the Shiv Sena would get 126 seats.
Finally, the BJP decided to contest on 164 seats and Shiv Sena on 124 seats.
Chandrakant Patil is popularly known as the ‘ears’ of Amit Shah6 in the Maharashtra government.
After all, the chief ministerial candidate of Maharashtra (Fadnavis) would still be a Brahmin, so the candidature of one non-Brahmin (Patil) in a Brahmin-dominated constituency should not be opposed.
OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal had been a star campaigner of the NCP who had led campaigns in 2009 and 2014,
the friction between the Shiv Sena minister Gulabrao Patil and BJP minister Girish Mahajan.
style, Thackeray said that there was no point in doing ‘net practice’ if the (cricket) match had already been fixed.
Raj Thackeray’s wish to sit in the Opposition became the talk of the town.
Ajit Pawar yet again courted controversy in his ABP news interview saying that arresting Bal Thackeray in 2000 was a blunder by the NCP.
Eknath Khadse, a Leva Patil, which is a non-elite agricultural caste, was an important leader and held important portfolios in the Fadnavis Cabinet such as revenue, excise and agriculture.
Karveer Nagar in Kolhapur witnessed the highest voting percentage at 83.20 per cent while the Colaba constituency in Mumbai witnessed lowest.
Two election officers died on duty.
This appointment of private officers in the government laid the ground for friction between the IAS officers and the OSDs which in turn had an adverse impact on administrative work.
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A senior BJP leader once told this author10 that Devendra Fadnavis had no competition for the post of the CM.
Senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse was in a powerful
The Maharashtra BJP was divided into the two camps—one belonging to Gopinath Munde and the other led by Nitin Gadkari. Sudhir Mungantiwar was close to Gadkari, therefore, Munde allegedly wanted to remove him without any solid or convincing reason.
Dilip Kamble, the minister for the state for social justice and special assistance, from Pune was also denied a ticket in 2019.
In the state assembly polls, the BJP used the same strategy of inducting the mass leaders of the Opposition such as Sandeep and Sanjeev Naik and their father Ganesh Naik from Navi Mumbai.
The state government and the political party forming it should function independently.
‘Mi Puna Yeil (I will be back),’ as a campaign slogan had an adverse impact. It reeked of arrogance.
