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  • Maharashtra | A quota struggle reignites

    The Maratha call for for reservations in jobs and schooling returns to roil the state’s politics

    BURNING FURY: Maratha Kranti Morcha participants block the Pune-Solapur Freeway to protest the lathi-charge on their cohort in Jalna district, Sept. 6 (Picture: PTI)

    ISSUE DATE: Sep 25, 2023 | UPDATED: Sep 15, 2023 17:30 IST

    Seven years after the dominant Maratha group first introduced a chain of silent morchas (protest marches) for his or her calls for like reservations in jobs and schooling, the problem has returned to hang-out politics in Maharashtra. Since 2016, round 58 ‘Maratha Kranti Morchas’—a few of them having masses of hundreds of other people becoming a member of them—had been organised in Maharashtra and neighbouring states. The agitation grew to become violent in 2018, additional beleaguering the then Devendra Fadnavis-led Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP)-Shiv Sena coalition. There was once hypothesis that the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP), which has a robust base some of the Marathas and was once then within the Opposition, had fuelled those protests to nook Fadnavis, a Brahmin. Then again, the Maratha protests noticed counter-mobilisation by means of the non-Marathas, particularly by means of the upwardly cell different backward categories (OBCs), who felt that the Marathas would ultimately devour into their 27 in line with cent proportion of reservations. Those teams organised ‘Bahujan Kranti Morchas’ around the state on equivalent traces.

  • NCP energy politics | Pawar outage

    The place does the elevation of Supriya Sule and Praful Patel as NCP’s operating presidents go away Ajit Pawar? Some assume it is going to thwart his ambition. Others say he stays the only NCP chief with consummate clout at the floor

    ISSUE DATE: Jun 26, 2023 | UPDATED: Jun 16, 2023 22:18 IST

    NOT SUCH A BRAVE FRONT: Ajit Pawar at a press convention in Mumbai, June 8. (Photograph: ANI)

    The ability combat inside the Nationalist Congress Birthday party (NCP) took a vital activate June 10 when birthday party supremo Sharad Pawar introduced the appointment of his daughter and Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule and previous Union minister Praful Patel because the operating presidents of the birthday party. With Sule thus anointed as her father’s political inheritor, all eyes are on her mercurial cousin and Maharashtra chief of opposition Ajit Pawar. Ajit refused to remark right away after his cousin’s appointment because the efficient No. 2 within the NCP. He later denied that he was once dissatisfied. “I’m very content material,” he advised the media. “This is senseless (hypothesis).” Ajit additionally tweeted in reinforce of the newly-appointed functionaries.

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  • ‘Fadnavis, Shinde will come to a decision additional movements’: State BJP leader amid celebrations in saffron camp

    By means of On-line Table

    MUMBAI: BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis and riot Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde will now come to a decision the following court docket of motion, state BJP leader Chandrakant Patil mentioned on Wednesday evening.

    CM Uddhav Thackeray resigned previous within the night time, an afternoon sooner than a scheduled flooring check within the state Meeting.

    The state BJP unit has requested all its MLAs to collect in Mumbai. To a query concerning the BJP’s subsequent transfer, as it’s the unmarried greatest birthday party within the Maharashtra legislative meeting, Patil mentioned, “The following steps might be made up our minds via Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde.”

    He additionally mentioned BJP staff “must follow restraint in victory.”

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    Fadnavis instructed journalists that “I can inform the birthday party’s stand the next day to come evidently.”

    There might be every other spherical of assembly on the reputable place of dwelling of Fadnavis later this night, resources mentioned.

    In the meantime, a number of BJP legislators and senior leaders accrued on the place of dwelling of Fadnavis in Mumbai and congratulated every different over the cave in of the MVA govt following the resignation of Maharashtra leader minister Uddhav Thackeray.

    A lot of them mentioned that Fadnavis will quickly helm the state.

    Former minister and BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule mentioned, “the reality prevailed, in any case”.

    “Fadnavis all the time used to mention that he’s going to go back to the Space. Now, it is time. He’s going to come again as the manager minister of Maharashtra,” BJP MLA Nitesh Rane mentioned.

    State birthday party president Chandrakant Patil fed goodies to Fadnavis. Senior BJP leaders Sudhir Mungantiwar and Girish Mahajan had been additionally provide.

  • Birthday celebration can contest and win 3rd Rajya Sabha seat if management asks: Maharashtra BJP leader

    Through PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra BJP leader Chandrakant Patil on Thursday stated his celebration can box a 3rd candidate for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections and win that seat too if the central management advised.

    Previous within the day, the Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar filed their nomination papers for the elections to 6 Rajya Sabha seats from Maharashtra for which individuals of the state Meeting would be the electors.

    “If the central management instructs us, we can box a 3rd candidate and win that seat as smartly. Going through the power within the Meeting, two applicants of BJP can win simply,” Patil advised journalists right here.

    A candidate will desire a quota of 42 votes to win. The BJP has sufficient votes to win two seats by itself. Ruling alliance companions Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress have the votes to get one candidate each and every elected one at a time, however in combination they are able to get some other candidate elected to the Higher Area of Parliament.

    Banking in this mathematics, the Sena has made up our minds to box two applicants within the election. The BJP has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Meeting.

    The power of alternative events is as follows: Shiv Sena 55, NCP 53, Congress 44, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi 3, Samajwadi Birthday celebration, AIMIM and Prahar Janshakti Birthday celebration two each and every, MNS, CPM, Peasants and Staff Birthday celebration, Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, Swabhimani Birthday celebration, Jansurajya Shakti and Krantikari Shetkari Birthday celebration one each and every.

    There are 13 Independents, whilst one seat is vacant.

  • ‘Painful, embarrassing for Maharashtra’: BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis decries arrest of Rana couple

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday referred to as the arrest of MP Navneet Rana and her husband and MLA Ravi Rana by way of Mumbai Police “painful” and “embarrassing” for Maharashtra.

    He additionally stated the police didn’t act when a pacesetter of the ruling Shiv Sena made threatening statements or the automobile of a BJP chief was once attacked, however arrested the Ranas after they arrived in Mumbai to recite the Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s space.

    In a chain of tweets, Fadnavis stated, “The incidents in Maharashtra are painful. No FIR was once filed when Mohit Kamboj’s automobile was once attacked or when a pacesetter talks about burying a lady consultant 20 toes below the bottom. But if the Rana couple involves Mumbai to recite Hanuman Chalisa, they’re straight away arrested.”

    इतकी दंडुकेशाही 
    इतका अहंकार
    इतका द्वेष
    सत्तेचा इतका माज
    सरकारच करणार हिंसाचार
    एवढीच तुमची मदुर्मक

    सत्तेच्या मस्तीत कसेही वागून घ्या
    पण, जनता सारे काही पाहते आहे !
    निव्वळ लज्जास्पद

    लोकशाहीत मत मांडण्याचा अधिकार संपला?
    लोकशाहीचे गार्‍हाणे गाणारे आज सोयीस्कर गप्प का?

    — Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) April 23, 2022

    Kamboj, a Mumbai BJP chief, had claimed on Friday that his automotive was once attacked close to Matoshree, Leader Minister Thackeray’s non-public place of abode. Sena chief Raut stated previous on Saturday, with out naming anyone, that any one who attempted to check the persistence of his birthday celebration could be “buried 20 toes underneath the earth”.

    “Why is there such a lot conceitedness of energy? It’s the state govt this is instigating violence. Is your manhood restricted to such behaviour,” Fadnavis, a former leader minister tweeted. “It’s an utter embarrassment for the state to witness this type of deficient display. All this is going on sooner than the folks,” he added.

    He additionally requested if the arrest indicated that “other folks have misplaced their proper to specific their perspectives”, and why those that talk about democratic values have been “selectively silent”. Previous within the day, talking in Nagpur, Fadnavis stated the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra govt’s means of dealing with all of the episode was once “very infantile”.

    “If allowed, the Rana couple would have long gone there (Matoshree), recited Hanuman Chalisa and returned with out developing any information. I do not perceive why such a lot of other folks had collected at a number of puts as though they (Rana couple) have been making plans some assault. What sort of politics is that this?” the BJP chief stated.

    Mumbai Police on Saturday night time arrested MLA Ravi Rana and his spouse, MP Navneet Rana, each Impartial legislators from jap Maharashtra, for allegedly “developing enmity between other teams” after escorting them out in their space in suburban Khar amid top drama.

    The advance got here hours after the couple cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa out of doors Uddhav Thackeray’s non-public place of abode ‘Matoshree’ right here.

  • Sanjay Raut operating on time table of Sharad Pawar to oust Uddhav Thackeray from CM’s submit, claims Maharashtra BJP leader

    Through PTI

    PUNE: Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Monday claimed that Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut was once operating on NCP leader Sharad Pawar’s time table, which was once to take away Uddhav Thackeray from the executive minister’s place and make Raut the CM.

    Talking to journalists right here, Patil additionally mentioned there was once an try to uproot the basis of ‘Matoshree’, the Mumbai-based non-public place of dwelling of Shiv Sena president Thackeray.

    “Whether or not he considers it or no longer, Uddhavji is our good friend. He’s the son of Shiv Sena supremo past due Balasaheb Thackeray. We’ve labored in combination for a number of years,” he mentioned.

    Who’s Sanjay Raut? He got here to the Shiv Sena in recent years and who’s he educating? the BJP chief additional mentioned.

    “We want to inform Uddhavji that as in step with what we perceive, Raut is operating on an time table given via Pawar Saheb. The time table is to take away you from the executive minister’s place as you’ve got finished two-and-a-half years as CM,” Patil claimed.

    “…and because Supriya Sule can’t be made CM, for him (Pawar) making Raut the executive minister might be as excellent as making Sule the CM,” Patil added.

    Sule, the Lok Sabha member from Baramati in Pune, is Pawar’s daughter.

    Particularly, after the 2019 Maharashtra Meeting polls, the Shiv Sena had snapped ties with long-term best friend BJP over the problem of sharing the executive ministerial submit.

    The Thackeray-led birthday celebration had then cast an alliance with the NCP and Congress to shape executive within the state.

    To a question, Patil deplored the language utilized by Rajya Sabha member Raut in a few of his statements in opposition to BJP leaders and mentioned “the usage of such roughly language isn’t any our tradition”.