PolitMaster.com is a comprehensive online platform providing insightful coverage of the political arena: International Relations, Domestic Policies, Economic Developments, Electoral Processes, and Legislative Updates. With expert analysis, live updates, and in-depth features, we bring you closer to the heart of politics. Exclusive interviews, up-to-date photos, and video content, alongside breaking news, keep you informed around the clock. Stay engaged with the world of politics 24/7.
The impending entry of Sunetra Pawar into the Rajya Sabha has added yet another Pawar name to the pantheon of dynastic politicians from Maharashtra. With family patriarch Sharad Pawar already a Rajya Sabha member, his daughter Supriya Sule in the Lok Sabha, and his nephew Ajit and grandnephew Rohit in the Maharashtra Assembly, Sunetra is set to become the fifth Pawar to hold public office.
Barely four kilometres from the epicentre of the Manoj Jarange Patil-led Maratha quota agitation Antarwali Sarati village in Maharashtra’s Jalna district, starting June 13 Other Backward Classes (OBC) activists Laxman Hake and Navnath Waghmare sat on an indefinite hunger strike in Vadi Godri village that was seen as a counter-protest.
Murlidhar Mohol, 49, started off as a booth-level worker for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), went on to become Pune Mayor and is now the city’s first Lok Sabha member to be part of the Union Council of Ministers in 38 years. The Minister of State for the ministries of Civil Aviation and Cooperation — a former wrestler whose grandfather, father, uncle and elder brother have all been wrestlers — spoke to The Indian Express about his elevation to New Delhi’s political arena, cooperative institutions, RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat recent remarks on electoral decorum, the forthcoming state polls in Maharashtra and the Porsche hit-and-run case. Edited excerpts:
Congress leader and Wayanad Member of Parliament (MP) doesn’t want any family member of the Nehru-Gandhi family, including himself, to be fielded from Amethi or Raebareli seats in Uttar Pradesh, a report said on May 1. Rahul had agreed to fight from Raebareli earlier, but has now decided not to enter the fray, the report in said.
Campaigning for Lok Sabha election will continue in full swing on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing rallies in Bagalkot of Karnataka and three – Solapur, Satara and Pune of Maharashtra.
ASHOK Gehlot has not forgotten the 2019 loss of his son Vaibhav Gehlot from the Jodhpur Lok Sabha seat when he himself was the CM. The senior Congress leader has been determined to ensure there is no repeat as Vaibhav contests from Jalore this time.
FROM Prime Minister Narendra Modi to multiple visits by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and state ministers, from former WWE wrestler Khali to actor and its Lok Sabha candidate Kangana Ranaut, and even a “non-political” programme by religious guru Dhirendra Shastri, the BJP is leaving no stone unturned in its bid to ensure the re-election of Union minister Kailash Choudhary from Barmer.
Back in 2023, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) founder Sharad Pawar was 50% ready to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after Ajit Pawar and other ministers took oath with Maharasthtra government, but things could not happen because of his ‘last miniute hesitation’, claimed NCP leader Praful Patel on Wednesday.