Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP and chief Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut said here on Friday that the Deputy CM Sunetra Ajit Pawar-led NCP will cease to exist or may merge with the BJP.
The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Friday criticised the Maharashtra government for not inviting the opposition and others to the 'Dharmadhvaja' (religious flag) hoisting event at the historic Shri Kalaram Temple in Nashik.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena officially announced here on Wednesday that it has decided to field its senior leader Ambadas Danve to contest the forthcoming Legislative Council election.
Workers of the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) allegedly pelted stones at Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Nirupam who reached Dahisar on Friday
Senior BJP leader and Maharashtra's Minister for Water Resources Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil clarified here on Wednesday that he met the arrested godman “Captain” Ashok Kharat only on the insistence of Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena MLA Deepak Kesarkar.
Maharashtra Congress president Harashwardhan Sapkal told media persons on Thursday that talks have begun with the Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena to form an alliance for the forthcoming municipal corporation elections, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Uddhav, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief, and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) supremo Raj Thackeray earlier paid tributes to late Balasaheb Thackeray at his memorial at Shivaji Park before travelling together to the press conference venue, where the alliance for the BMC elections as well as for polls to several other civic bodies was announced.
In the Opposition’s Maha Vikas Aghadi, the Congress was leading in 32 local bodies, followed by NCP–SCP with nine and Shiv Sena (UBT) with eight.
Invoking the spirit of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Wednesday claimed that the elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in particular, and 28 other civic bodies are a battle to protect Mumbai from being "carved away" from Maharashtra, terming the electoral exercise as a decisive struggle for the "existence of the Marathi Manoos".
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray launched a scathing attack on the Fadnavis government at a press conference in Nagpur on Thursday, saying that holding the state assembly's winter session in Nagpur has now become a mere formality, as serious issues facing Vidarbha and the entire state are being completely ignored.
