NCP-SCP MP Supriya Sule expressed support for transparency in elections, opposing the recount request of Baramati Assembly candidate Yugendra Pawar. She emphasized trust in EVMs and called for transparency in the electoral process, regardless of voting method.
Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) (NCP-SCP) Pune city president, Prashant Jagtap on Sunday made it clear that his party is ready to contest the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections solo if their alliance partner, Shiv Sena (UBT), decides to go alone.
Reacting to Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut's reported statement hinting the party may contest Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections on its own," Maharashtra NCP (SCP) leader Jayant Patil on Saturday said that he will ask him why he made such a decision.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine 'One Nation, One Election' Bill will have 21 members from Lok Sabha including Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manish Tewari, NCP's Supriya Sule, TMC's Kalyan Banerjee and BJP's PP Chaudhary, Bansuri Swaraj and Anurag Singh Thakur,
Rajya Sabha MP and former Union Minister Sharad Pawar, along with a group of farmers, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Wednesday.
On Monday, Chhagan Bhujbal said that it would not make a difference if he wasn't made a minister in the Maharashtra cabinet because he is never finished, implying that he still remains relevant.
Several opposition leaders, including Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SCP) MPs, on Tuesday expressed their opposition to the "One Nation, One Election" Bill, which aims to conduct simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and state assemblies across India.
Bhujbal said that nothing can be said about the decision taken by party leaders. Bhujbal said party leaders informed him that senior leaders were not included to give a chance to new people.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday announced that 39 leaders took oath as cabinet ministers, with six of them being state ministers and that the allocation of portfolios is expected to be finalized within two days.
Addressing the swearing-in ceremony of cabinet ministers in the Maharashtra government, Deputy CM Eknath Shinde said, "For the last few days we were seeing who is getting how many departments. This convention is being held in Nagpur, I congratulate Devendra ji...The match is new, the oppo
BJP's state unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Ashish Shelar, Ganesh Naik, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Pankaja Munde, Girish Mahajan, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Chandrakant Patil, were among the ministers who took oath.