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.
Sarangi Mahajan, the wife of late Pravin Mahajan who was the brother of the BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, met NCP chief as well as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday, complaining to him about Food and Civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde grabbing her land.
BJP MLA Suresh Dhas has made a sensational allegation that a meeting to discuss an extortion deal in Beed was held between Maharashtra food and Civil Supplies Minister Dhananjay Munde's associate Valmik Karad and officials of a power company at Munde's official residence in the Beed district, in June 2024.
The mobile phone recovered from Valmik Karad has added fuel to the controversy. "A case under Section 302 for murder will not be registered against Karad at all because his godfather is in power. I have exposed the chats to show the extent of these links," said Jitendra Awhad on Wednesday.
The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena's Lok Sabha MP, Shrikant Eknath Shinde, happens to be a part of the Joint Parliamentary Committee tasked with studying the 'One Nation One Election' bill for simultaneous polls. The committee will be asked to submit its report during the budget session.
Incidentally, there has been intense political speculation about what disgruntled OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal's next move would be and whether he would join the BJP which is keen to have an OBC face. Bhujbal had refused to say whether he would join the BJP even after media persons asked him about it.
