Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Friday thanked the people of Mumbai for reposing faith in the BJP alliance following the civic body elections, stating that the mandate reflects their desire for the city's development.
On National Startup Day, Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw took to X to talk about the expansion of India's deep-tech startup ecosystem driven by focused policy and funding support.
Jose K Mani said, "Today, our agenda is the upcoming election campaigns, and we have decided to continue our previous policy of joining hands with the LDF and facing the upcoming elections."
"What does the future hold? In whose hands is it safe? It looks like that Punekar's have voted on the basis of 'vichar, pragati, vikas, aur bhavishya' (thoughts, prosperity, development, and the future). That is what I think is the basis people have voted (for us), under the leadership of
"Our historic victory in Mumbai and the widespread success achieved in the municipalities demonstrate that the younger generation has also extended strong support to the BJP and the Mahayuti with complete enthusiasm and confidence," he said.
Lalit Kolhe, the Shiv Sena candidate had contested from jail after he was arrested in September in relation to a fake call centre scam. While being a member of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Lalit Kolhe had also served as the mayor of Jalgaon in 2018. Afterwards, the BJP leader See
Meanwhile the Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS-NCP(SP) alliance seems to have halted on its tracks for now with leads in only 68 wards. While the UBT leads in the alliance with 60 seats, MNS has managed to stay ahead in 8, whereas NCP SP has not managed to secure a lead in any of the seats.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Friday expressed confidence that the Mayor of Mumbai will come from the Mahayuti alliance, saying most seats in the BMC elections are going to the Mahayuti alliance.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) alliance has managed to cross the 63 mark, with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) only leading in 9, and UBT leading in 53, and NCP (SP) leading only in 1.
Early trends being reported from the counting of votes in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections on Friday showed the BJP-Shiv Sena Mahayuti alliance leading in 86 wards, while Shiv Sena (UBT) trailed with 46 leads.
"Whether the Thackeray brothers come together or Congress and NCP join hands, it is not in the interest of the people. People have understood that this is for their own selfish motives," Patil told ANI.
While Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Sharad Pawar led NCP had allied together to contest in the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad corporation elections, their combined might not have been effective in consolidating the party's vote base, which was split after Ajit Pawar had bro