Shinde, speaking to ANI, said that the voting percentage had increased because of the people of Maharashtra who decided to make the Mahayuti, comprising three major parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party.
Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) leader Prashant Jagtap has said that a reunification of Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena's (UBT) faction will be of 'no surprise' to Maharashtra, saying that similar developments have been happening in the state since 2019.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday lambasted incidents of violence against Hindi speakers in Maharashtra after the Mahayuti government's move on three-language policy which was later withdrawn.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, with other leaders of the Mahayuti alliance, on Sunday celebrated the inclusion of 12 forts of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The public Ganeshotsav, a tradition over 100 years old, has been officially declared as the "Maharashtra State Festival". The announcement was made in the Legislative Assembly by the State's Minister of Cultural Affairs, Advocate Ashish Shelar, on Thursday, a press note from the culture mini
Shiv Sena UBT MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Wednesday strongly criticised the ruling Mahayuti government in Maharashtra after a purported video of Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad allegedly beating a "poor helpless" canteen worker went viral on social media.
Recently, the Maharashtra government withdrew its April 16 orders on the implementation of the three-language policy that made Hindi a "mandatory" third language for school students in Classes 1 to 5 studying in English and Marathi medium schools.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde exuded confidence on the win of Mahayuti in the Maharashtra elections and stated that the public had given a landslide victory to the party for all the public welfare done.
Speaking to reporters outside the Maharashtra Assembly, Ashish Shelar said, "In the true sense, the Mahayuti government, and Devendra Fadnavis maintained complete loyalty to the Marathi mind, Marathi language, and Marathi people. BJP did not make it a prestige issue."
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expressed confidence in his Shiv Sena faction's prospects in the upcoming local body elections, emphasising the party's commitment to development and its growing support base across the state.