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Election schedule underway 12 September 2014
The Election Commission has announced election schedule for Maharashtra and Haryana states this afternoon and both the states will go for voting on October 15th and the results will be declared on October 19th. In Haryana, Congress is looking to...
Keywords: Haryana Assembly elections 2014, Maharashtra Assembly elections 2014, Nationalist Congress Party, Maharashtra Assembly elections 2014
Read More Parties to lose National Status 02 July 2014
Several Political Parties in the country are set to lose their national status as in the recent elections, they could not secure the minimum percentage of votes and seats. The Election Commission of India has sent show-cause notice to Nationalist...
Keywords: NCP BSP CPI to lose nations status, Election Commission of India, AIR, Election Commission of India
Read More 7,666 candidates file nomination 29 September 2014
7,666 candidates have filed their nominations for the October 15 Maharashtra Assembly polls and as many as 91 people have filed nomination for the Nanded South constituency. Maharashtra probably for the first time will witness a battle between four major...
Keywords: Congress, Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress party, BJP
Read More NCP wants equal seat share 21 August 2014
Nationalist Congress party [NCP] has locked all the ways for the Congress party to break the alliance and demanded equal number of seats for the Assembly elections which are slated later this year. NCP has been demanding 144 Assembly seats...
Keywords: Maharashtra Assembly elections, AK Antony, Ahmed Patel, Sharad Pawar
Read More Maharashtra gets first BJP govt 31 October 2014
BJP will independently form government in Maharashtra when Devendra Fadnavis will be taking oath as chief minister of the state today. However, BJP will technically be a minority government as the party only won 122 seats from the 288 Assembly....
Keywords: Nationalist Congress party, Maharashtra, Maharashtra, Shiv Sena
Read More President' Rule in Maharashtra 27 September 2014
As the Democratic Front government in Maharashtra split, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan resigned to the post and offered his resignation letter to Governor Vidyasagar Rao. On Firday evening, CM Chavan met Governor at Raj Bhavan and apprised the political situation....
Keywords: Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao, Congress, BJP, Nationalist Congress party
Read More Rs 800 crores for Election ads 13 October 2014
Politically, Maharashtra state is vital for whichever government that occupies the national capital. With the super victory in the May elections, BJP is putting severe efforts to be the champion of Maharashtra while the Congress party is leaving no stone...
Keywords: Shiv Sena, Congress, Congress, Maharashtra polls
Read More NCP chief predicts Mid-Polls 18 November 2014
Nationalist Congress party chief Sharad Pawar alerted his party workers to be ready for the election as he is predicting mid-term polls. Mr. Pawar at the Chintan Baithak [introspection meet] said to the party workers and supporters that NCP did...
Keywords: Congress, Chintan Baithak, Congress, BJP
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NCP strengthens its lead in Legislative council 05 July 2012
Nationalist Congress Party had increased its lead with most number of legislators in the Legislative Council on Wednesday. Niranjan Davkhare of NCP seized the control of the Konkan constituency of graduates by defeating the existinng BJP legislator Sanjay Kellar with...
Keywords: Legislative council, Legislative council, Nationalist Congress Party, Nationalist Congress Party
Read More Dissociate from Ministry responsibilities: NCP 22 January 2014
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has said on Wednesday to Union Minister of Human Resource Shashi Tharoor to step down from the Ministerial responsibilities on the charges of his wife Sunanda Pushkar's mysterious death. NCP Spokesperson DP Tripathi had said,...
Keywords: NCP, DP Tripathi, Sunanda Pushkar, Shashi Tharoor
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NCP leader RR Patil dies 16 February 2015
Former Home Minister of Maharashtra RR Patil breathed his last following oral cancer at a private hospital in Mumbai. Raosaheb Ramrao Patil shortly called by RR Patil is true loyalist of Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar and was considered...
Keywords: Mumbai 26/11 attack, RR Patil dies, RR Patil passes away, RR Patil family
Read More NCP statements shock Congress party 29 January 2014
The Congress party is reckon to be facing the heat of not only public but also its alliance parties in the UPA government. Hours after National Conference of Jammu & Kashmir chief Farooq Abdullah announcing that Omar (J&K CM) will...
Keywords: Farooq Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah, NCP statements shock Congress party, National news
Read More Its a four way battle in Maharashtra 26 September 2014
It is allover now in Maharashtra as two national parties Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] and Indian National Congress [INC] separated away from their allies for the Assembly elections scheduled in October. The BJP and Shiv Sena ended their 25-year-old relationship...
Keywords: Congress, Uddhav Thackeray, Congress, Uddhav Thackeray
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Ajit Pawar, Deputy CM of Maharashtra resigns 25 September 2012
After facing allegations of being involved in the irrigation scam, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Ajit Pawar had offered to resign from power. He is a member of the Nationalist Congress Party, NCP which is headed by none other...
Keywords: Deputy Chief Minister, , Sharad Pawar,
Read More Will Modi magic work in Maha? 15 October 2014
The polling is under way for Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections and reports say that, voters are participating in huge numbers. All eyes are on Maharashtra, as all the major parties are contesting individually. BJP ended their 25 year bond...
Keywords: Shiv Sena, Haryana Assembly elections, Maharashtra Assembly elections, Shiv Sena
Read More Suspense continues in Maharashtra! 21 October 2014
Its been two days the election results were announced and still there is no clarity in the BJP on whom to team up for the formation of government. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray called upon Amit Shah and Narendra Modi...
Keywords: Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra elections 2014, Nationalist Congress party
Read More Sena hits back at Modi 06 October 2014
Shiv Sena hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who refused to criticise the former saffron ally out of respect for the late Bal Thackeray. In its mouthpiece 'Saamna' Shiv Sena said, “Modi said he won't say a word against...
Keywords: Maharashtra Assembly elections, Nationalist Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Anandiben Patel
Read More Shiv Sena sits in opposition 10 November 2014
The consensus between BJP and Shiv Sena did not reach to a conclusion and it reflected in today's Maharashtra Assembly. On the first day of Assembly sessions, Shiv Sena sat in the opposition chairs which indicated that it won't compromise...
Keywords: BJP, Uddhav Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray, Nationalist Congress Party
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Anti-corruption Bureau seeks to interrogate Bhujbal 13 September 2012
The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Maharashtra had sought the permission of the state's Home Department to interrogate Chhagan Bhujbal, the leader of the Nationalist Congress Party and also the Minister of Public Works Department of the state for his alleged involvement...
Keywords: , Chhagan Bhujbal, Chhagan Bhujbal, Chhagan Bhujbal
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Rs 20,000 crores embezzled in Maharashtra Irrigation scam 06 August 2012
The picture of the irrigation scam in Maharashtra is getting dirtier as it also has increased the tension between the Congress and its ally Nationalist Congress Party. The media has recently revealed that the 38 projects that were set up...
Keywords: Nationalist Congress Party, , , Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation
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