Mumbai: The BJP’s ally Shiv Sena announced on Tuesday that Patidar agitation leader Hardik Patel would be the face of the party in the 2017 Gujarat Assembly polls. The Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti has been fighting for reservation for the Patel community under the Other Backward Castes (OBC) quota and the movement did […]
Mumbai: There are no clear winners in the Maharashtra Assembly election. It is a classic case of ‘winner comes second’. The Congress-NCP and the BJP-Shiv Sena alliances collapsed just three weeks before voting and all went to the battle on their own in a hurry. Certainly, the BJP has many reasons to feel happy about […]
Mumbai/Chandigarh: Voting has begun in Maharashtra and Haryana for the high-stakes Assembly elections in both the states. The elections are being seen as the first major test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity after the Lok Sabha polls. Voters could be seen queued up at some polling stations even before the official start time of […]
New Delhi: It seems the NaMo wave is gaining strength as the General Elections are coming closer, with a fresh poll survey conducted by a leading news channel predicting the BJP-Shiv Sena-RPI alliance to win at least 23 to 29 seats, while the Congress-NCP would bag between 16-22 seats in Maharashtra. The survey projected the […]
Mumbai:The Sena, which had earlier demanded that India retaliate strongly to the affront of her arrest, lashed out at Uttam Khobragade, saying he “erred” by bringing up the issue of caste, when asked about his daughter’s flat. “It is his mental bankruptcy,” an editorial in the party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said. At a recent press conference […]
Mumbai: India needs a “strong” prime minister, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray declared on Sunday, reiterating his party’s support to BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. The need for a “strong person” to lead the country was necessary as the Congress party had become weak, he told the Shiv Sena’s first Dassehra rally after the […]
Mumbai : In more trouble for the BJP, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday demanded that the decision on NDA’s prime ministerial candidate must be taken soon. The editorial in party mouthpiece Saamna asked the BJP top brass to clear its stand on the issue. Noting that a group within the BJP has been advancing the […]
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena has refused the join the “pardon Sanjay Dutt” chorus, saying today that the actor must serve his entire sentence. Twenty years ago, it was Sena chief Bal Thackeray whose efforts helped Sanjay Dutt get bail after he was arrested and jailed for possessing illegal weapons in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. […]
New Delhi : A merger between Maharashtra’s two prominent political outfits – Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) –may take place ahead of the 2014 General Elections if all remains well between their respective chiefs Uddhav and his cousin Raj Thackeray. The two political parties, which are trying to capture the void created […]
Mumbai : After a long tussle with the Maharashtra government, the Shiv Sena early Tuesday removed the temporary Bal Thackeray memorial at Shivaji Park. As per reports, the party began shifting the memorial last night and completed work early this morning. “Yes, early this morning, we have removed the urn containing Balasaheb’s ashes and other […]
