In a wide-ranging interview with Frontline, Sunil Tatkare, the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Maharashtra unit chief and a close confidant of Deputy Chief Minister and party leader Ajit Pawar, forecasts a dramatic reversal of his alliance’s fortunes in the upcoming Assembly election. Despite the Mahayuti’s (as the National Democratic Alliance is known in Maharashtra) disappointing […]
On October 1, Deputy Chief Minister and BJP’s foremost leader in Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, made a controversial remark in Kolhapur: “Vote jehad was witnessed during the Lok Sabha election. This resulted in Maha Vikas Aghadi’s [MVA] huge success in 14 out of 48 Lok Sabha constituencies. The consolidation of Muslim votes resulted in heavy losses […]
The Election Commission of India has announced the schedule for the Maharashtra Assembly election. Voting will take place in a single phase on November 20, with the counting on November 23. The current Assembly’s tenure ends on November 26, so the oath-taking ceremony for newly elected MLAs must be completed before that date. While the […]
