MNS chief Raj Thackeray. File pic
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2 weeks 15 hours 20 minutes ago
10:00 PM
Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Decision on Sunetra Pawar`s oath taken without Sharad Pawar`s knowledge, claims NCP (SP) Maharashtra chief
NCP (SP) Maharashtra unit president Shashikant Shinde on Saturday said his party chief Sharad Pawar and other leaders had no prior knowledge about the decision that NCP`s Sunetra Pawar would take oath as the state Deputy Chief Minister. Sunetra Pawar (62), wife of Ajit Pawar who died in a plane crash in Baramati on January 28, was on Saturday sworn in as the first woman deputy CM of Maharashtra. (PTI)
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2 weeks 15 hours 35 minutes ago
09:45 PM
Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Adityanath extends best wishes to Sunetra Pawar on becoming Maharashtra Dy CM
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has extended his best wishes to Sunetra Pawar, who on Saturday became the first woman deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. In a post in Hindi on X, Adityanath said, "Heartiest congratulations to Sunetra Ajit Pawar ji on taking oath as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. I am fully confident that under the successful guidance of respected Prime Minister @narendramodi ji and the able leadership of Chief Minister @Dev_Fadnavis ji, you will provide new momentum to Maharashtra`s ongoing development journey. Best wishes for a bright and successful tenure." (PTI)
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2 weeks 15 hours 50 minutes ago
09:30 PM
Mumbai News LIVE Updates: NCP leaders tight-lipped on possibility of merger; Piyush Goyal thinks it is unlikely
Senior leaders of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party on Saturday maintained a guarded silence on the prospects of merger of the rival factions of the party, even as Union Minister Piyush Goyal said he did not expect it to happen anytime soon. The NCP (SP) leaders, on the other hand, claimed that Ajit Pawar, who died in an air crash on January 28, very much wanted the two factions to reunite, but party supremo Sharad Pawar conceded that the process might face a roadblock now. (PTI)
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2 weeks 16 hours 5 minutes ago
09:15 PM
Mumbai News LIVE Updates: NCP should have a president who is a Maharashtrian, says Thackeray
"Honestly, one doesn`t even feel like commenting on it. But still, today, I will have to speak on the events unfolding throughout the day. A party like the Nationalist Congress Party, which is truly rooted in Marathi soil, should have a president who is a pure Marathi. He could be a Patil, but not a Patel," he wrote.