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Maharashtra polls: Maratha leader’s threat fizzles out
Maharashtra’s irony is that a third of its total population comprises Marathas and they generally dominate politics, from the gram panchayats to the state Assembly. They have had a big hand because…
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Maharashtra: Politicians promising moon to the voters but would they deliver it?
Three parties together have run the Maharashtra government for a couple of years and together, they are seeking to secure the voters’ favour to continue doing it for the next five years.…
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Maharashtra polls: The value of migrant labour’s votes
This is probably one of those few occasions when everyone wants the sugarcane harvesting labour to stay home till voting day and not foray far afield. That is because the politicians want…
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Maharashtra: This is most expensive poll in the State
Mumbai: Though all the contestants in an election file the return of expenses after any elections, such disclosures are a mere formality. It is common knowledge that even the votes are literally bought…
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Maharashtra Polls: Thackeray cousins and the rest; Mumbai Meri Jaan
Mumbai: Bal Thackeray didn’t ever want to contest any election. Not once. The Shiv Sena that he founded was aimed at getting the Marathi manoos his rights in Mumbai which was being…
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Sharad Pawar game: Grooming politicians from within family and facing bitter consequences
Mumbai: Before he passed away, Sharad Pawar’s elder brother Anantrao Pawar had entrusted his son Ajit Pawar to his sibling and said, “Look after him well.” Sharad Pawar took upon himself to…
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Maharashtra: Politicians of all shades are jumping from one party to another with no qualms
Mumbai: Whatever is happening in Maharashtra in the name of electoral politics is unprecedented. After the 2003 split into two mainline parties, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena, what seems…
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Babu and Stalin should read this: Bearing more children means moving backwards
Two chief ministers, N Chandrababu Naidu and M K Stalin, respectively of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Naidu must reconsider their advocacy of growing their populations. Naidu has asked that couples should have…
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Maharashtra polls: 4 major parties vie for prestigious Shivaji Park for meeting on Nov 17
Mumbai: Shivaji Park, a large ground in South Central Mumbai – Dadar to those who know the metropolis – is a much-coveted public ground now. As many as four political parties have…
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Maharashtra polls: Raj Thackeray punctures promises being made by major political outfits.
In competitive politics which is at its sharpest, politicians seldom tell the people that what is expected is not possible. They promise the moon when on the stump but seldom deliver. It…
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Maharashtra polls: Unfolding of unusual contours
Two political parties that split just over two years ago, the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party, are fighting the splinter group and they see it as an existential battle. It…
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Uddhav wants a CM’s face announced; partners wary
Here is an anecdote from 1999 which has relevance today. The Congress and the then united Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had contested the Maharashtra Assembly polls against each other in a triangular…
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INDIA is not in tatters; wait for the outcome of Maharashtra elections
The response by several political parties to the Congress losing Haryana is not in the least surprising. It just happened that this Haryana development came the way of other political parties who…
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Delhi Durbar: The house for a Chief Minister–A curious case Kejriwal
During his entire tenure, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had lived in his ancestral home. Now as leader of Opposition, he continues to stay there. He was just not bothered to ask…
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STATUE BUILDING IN A HURRY
Within a month of its collapse, the Maharashtra Government has initiated a tendering process to build a new statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji on the Rajkot Fort in south Konkan coast and it…
