Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said "putra-putri moh" had caused the split in the Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and the BJP cannot be blamed for it
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday accused the BJP of being a core beneficiary of the electoral bonds purchased by the gaming and gambling companies.
Future Gaming and Hotel Services whose managing director is the well-known lottery magnate Santiago Martin is the top purchaser of electoral bonds having purchased bonds worth Rs 1,368 crore, according to data uploaded by the Election Commission of India on its website on Thursday.
Maharashtra Minister Shambhuraj Desai on Thursday asked Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray if he would back Rahul Gandhi disrespecting Veer Savarkar when he (Rahul Gandhi) comes to Mumbai to address a rally during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray slammed the Central government for implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and alleged it to be the ruling party's 'election jumla' in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls.
In a sharp critique, Shiv Sena (UBT) Spokesperson Anand Dubey questioned the timing of the recent Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) notification, suggesting that the government had a decade to introduce it.
Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, double Maharashtra Kesari Chandrahar Patil joined Shiv Sena (UBT) in the presence of former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree on Monday.
After the Shiv Sena (UBT) announced its candidate from the Mumbai's North-West Lok Sabha seat, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Sunday said that no party in Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has a right to announce the names of the contestants from the disputed seats.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, former Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ravindra Waikar joined the Shiv Sena in the presence of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, in Mumbai on Sunday.
The Congress leader, while taking to X, expressed his disappointment over the announcement of Amol Kirtikar as the Shiv Sena candidate for the Mumbai North-West constituency, a decision made by Thackeray before the MVA could finalise seat-sharing arrangements.
Weighing in on the surprise resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel barely weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday labelled the poll panel as an "extended branch of the BJP".
"There are 5 seats that are being demanded by the NCP (Sharad Pawar), Congress and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray). So in total, there are 15 seats out of 48 in which they do not have coordination," Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar said.