Cabinet okays Rs 2,781 cr railway expansion projects in Maha, Gujarat
The announcement was made by Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, during a press briefing.
The announcement was made by Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, during a press briefing.
Maharashtra state president of the Samajwadi Party, Abu Asim Azmi, attacked the sudden and unexpected move to declare local civic body election constituencies as "reserved" just before the polls, without any prior consultations or indications on Wednesday, hinting at a not-so-hidden agenda to favour the BJP at the expense of the opposition.
Leaders of all Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) opposition parties, including the Congress, the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, besides the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) demanded on Wednesday that elections to the local civic and municipal bodies in Maharashtra be postponed until discrepancies in voters' lists are resolved.
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said his party as well as the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena will contest the forthcoming Maharashtra local body and municipal elections together.
The fourth day of the monsoon session of the Maharashtra assembly commenced here on Thursday with the Opposition targeting the Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government for alleged irregularities in municipal waste management.
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) founder president Raj Thackeray will jointly hold a 'Marathi Vijay Diwas' victory rally on Saturday, July 5 at 10 am, for ''successfully forcing the Fadnavis government to revoke the two government resolutions (GRs) it had issued to teach Hindi compulsorily, to students from Class 1''.
Opposition parties, including the Congress, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, stated that the incident exposed the lack of safety mechanisms of the railway network.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena leader and metropolitan mayor Sudhakar Badgujar from the Nashik district, who met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis a couple of days ago in Nashik, was expelled from his party on Wednesday, for supposedly "making anti-party statements".
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday rubbished Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar's statement on the Pahalgam terror attack.
He clarified that class 1 students would now have the option to choose other languages instead of Hindi.
