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AFTER THE intervention of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who held meetings late into Tuesday and early Wednesday, the BJP appears to have worked out a seat-sharing formula for Maharashtra. Sources said that the BJP is likely to contest 32 of the 48 seats in the state as per the deal, with the Shinde Shiv Sena fighting 11 and the NCP (Ajit Pawar) 5 seats.
Amid reports of bickering in Maharashtra among the ruling NDA partners over seat-sharing besides internal differences within the BJP, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in the state Tuesday in a bid to resolve these issues, especially those related to Vidarbha, Marathwada and North Maharashtra.
Deploying yet another of those googlies that his opponents find hard to read, veteran leaderSharad Pawar has invited Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar for lunch as they visit his home turf Baramati on Saturday.
Having steered the Maratha quota Bill through the House, the Maharashtra government appears to have decided to not treat activist Manoj Jarange Patil with kid gloves any more.
Manoj Jarange-Patil, a possible drought, and allies pushing for more seats. Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, these factors are seemingly not making it easy for the BJP in Marathwada, a region that the party swept in the 2019 polls in alliance with the undivided Shiv Sena.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker and Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi, the first CM to lead a non-Congress government, breathed his last at a Mumbai hospital at 3 am on Friday. He was 86.
THE DEFECTION of Ashok Shankarrao Chavan is a big blow to the Congress, already beset with the exit of several leaders and given his long lineage in the party.
While the INDIA alliance of Opposition parties faces the prospects of allies walking out, the NDA in Maharashtra seems to be facing a problem of plenty as coalition partners Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the Republican Party of India (Athawale) have staked claim to the Shirdi Lok Sabha seat.