Mumbai: Thanking the people of Maharashtra for BJP's resounding victory in the municipal council and nagar panchayat elections on Sunday, chief minister Devendra Fadanvis said: "I had predicted that 75% of the nagar presidents will be from the Mahayuti and the results endorse it. Nearly 3,300 corporators are from the Mahayuti. Once again, BJP is the number one party with 48% of the nagar presidents,"...
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KALYAN: In a significant political development ahead of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) elections, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has faced a major setback in Dombivli. Former MNS corporator Manda Patil officially resigned from the party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), marking a shift in the local political landscape. The induction ceremony took place in the...
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday set the ball rolling for assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram - the last electoral battle in the run-up to 2024 general election - by announcing a 24-day poll window extending from November 7 to November 30.Chhattisgarh will be the only state to have polling in two phases, with the assembly constituencies in the...
NEW DELHI: Though BJP executed an interesting social-engineering move by rejigging the caste quotas while making forays into the Vokkaliga constituency of JDS in the old Mysuru region, it continues to view the numerically preponderant Lingayats as its core constituency.Evidently, that is the reason when Lingayat community veteran B S Yediyurappa quit as chief minister, he was replaced by Basavaraj...