Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said Eknath Shinde "himself is Hamas", as he countered the Maharashtra chief minister's comment about Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena faction being capable of joining hands with "Hamas and Lashkar-e-Taiba for their own selfishness". Taking a dig at Shinde and his aide Bharatiya Janata Party, Raut said, "He (Eknath Shinde) is himself Hamas... This shows how many dirty worms the BJP has planted in your mind." CM Shinde at the Dussehra rallt in Mumbai's Azad Maidan said, "You back-stabbed Bal Thackeray by committing dishonesty with his ideological legacy. I won't be surprised if they ally with terrorist groups like Hamas and Lashkar-e-Taiba for their own selfish motives." Thackeray and Shinde, leaders of the split factions of the Shiv Sena, organized separate Dussehra rallies this year in Mumbai for the first time in the history of the party.
25 October,2023 01:15 PM IST | Mumbai
INDIA Alliance Coordination Committee meeting ended at NCP Leader Sharad Pawar’s residence in New Delhi on September 13. The 14-member panel discussed a variety of issues including the seat sharing and campaign strategy for the 2024 general elections. The alliance decided that it will soon kick start joint public meetings across India, beginning from Bhopal in the first week of October. Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal while addressing a conference condemned the BJP for vendetta politics against TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee as he was absent from the meeting due to the ED summon. AAP leader Raghav Chadha also shared information and strategies of the INDIA alliance going forward. PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti added that issues of rising prices will also be taken up in the first joint rally. Meanwhile, the BJP had rebuked the Opposition bloc’s meeting, calling it a get-together of an anti-Hindu coordination committee.
14 September,2023 02:53 PM IST | Mumbai
BJP conducted a press conference in New Delhi on September 13, where party spokesperson Sambit Patra slammed the INDIA bloc, referring to it as the ‘AHCC’ (Anti-Hindu Coordination Committee). Further, he commented on the meeting called by the INDIA bloc on September 13 at Sharad Pawar's residence in New Delhi, claiming that there is no cooperation and coordination among the alliance's members and that the agenda of the meeting is to discuss various ways to abolish Hinduism. Furthermore, he chastised the alliance's leaders for equating Hinduism with illnesses like Corona, leprosy, and AIDS and labeling it a global threat. “Today (AHCC) Anti-Hindu Coordination Committee meeting is called in Mumbai at Sharad Pawar's home. They will also discuss seat sharing. But before the coordination, the non-coordination and non-cooperation has started... This is not a meeting of campaign or seat sharing... Their only aim is to abolish Hinduism... The meeting is on the same topic... They called Hinduism dengue and malaria, corona, leprosy, and AIDS. They compare Hinduism with such diseases. They called it a world menace”, said Sambit Patra.
13 September,2023 05:57 PM IST | Mumbai
The first meeting of the Coordination Committee of the I.N.D.I.A. (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) is scheduled to take place at NCP chief Sharad Pawar's residence in Delhi on September 13. INDIA bloc held its third meeting in Mumbai on September 01 and announced a 14-member coordination committee. The names of 13 members have been announced; however, the name from TMC is yet to be revealed. TMC had nominated Abhishek Banerjee for the meet, who is being summoned by the ED today. Talking about his summon, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said BJP is deliberately doing this because they don't want Banerjee to attend the meet.
13 September,2023 04:29 PM IST | Mumbai
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on September 13 paid a visit to the flood-hit areas of Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla including the Shiv Temple at Summer Hill and met with the flood-affected victims. The area was hit by a massive landslide on August 14, which claimed at least 19 lives.
13 September,2023 04:23 PM IST | Mumbai
A day after NCP Leader Ajit Pawar joined Maharashtra Government and took oath as Deputy Chief Minister of state, Uddhav Thackeray faction leader and MP Sanjay Raut on July 03 predicted that Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the 16 MLAs are going to be disqualified. Meanwhile, Union MSME Minister Narayan Rane rubbished Raut’s claim and said the government will go on till 2024.
03 July,2023 05:26 PM IST | Mumbai
Amid the ongoing Maharashtra political crisis, NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut and other political leaders have come forward to express their views on the big political move by Ajit Pawar. On 2nd July, Ajit Pawar took oath as Maharashtra’s Deputy CM joining the Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra. He will be sharing the post with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis. Ajit Pawar was rumoured to be unhappy about being denied the post of NCP’s state unit chief after Supriya Sule and Praful Patel were made the working presidents of the Nationalist Congress Party.
02 July,2023 06:45 PM IST
While addressing a press conference in Mumbai, Shiv Sena Leader (Uddhav Faction) Sanjay Raut on June 24 said that Uddhav Thackeray has said in the Opposition meeting that, if there will not be a power change in 2024, then this will be the last election, so to protect democracy, the Opposition parties have to stay united and fight the election. Whereas on June 23, BJP Leader Smriti Irani taking a jibe at the Opposition leader said, “Alliance of selfishness, India on target. The political parties which did not see eye to eye with each other, united with a resolve that deprives India of economic progress. Whenever these political parties come together, they bring corruption, nepotism and economic progress of the nation. They brought with them the allegation of narrowing.” The Opposition meeting took place on June 23 in Bihar’s Patna where the Oppositions leaders had gathered to formalise the strategy for 2024 polls.
24 June,2023 04:53 PM IST | Mumbai
Tension gripped in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur after some youth allegedly posted objectionable posts on social media with a reference to Aurangzeb and Tipu Sultan. Section 144 has been imposed in Kolhapur on June 08 following the reports of violence in the city. The internet services have also been suspended. A day after the incident, Kolhapur SP Mahendra Pandit held a press conference. He informed that the situation in Kolhapur city and the district became normal has become normal. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena UBT leader questioned the Hindutva that gets threatened by a social media post.
08 June,2023 04:47 PM IST | Mumbai
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut slammed the Centre for allegedly not extending the invitation to the Indian President Droupadi Murmu to the new Parliament building inauguration. 19 Opposition parties are boycotting the inauguration ceremony for the new parliament building saying that Modi’s decision to inaugurate it himself, “completely sidelined” President Droupadi Murmu and is a direct assault on democracy.
26 May,2023 02:18 PM ISTADVERTISEMENT
