Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Monday demanded that anyone involved in atrocities against women should be treated as a terrorist and hanged in public, regardless of their party affiliation.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday said that the Pune rape accused was hiding in a sugarcane farm and was caught using a drone. He assured that a thorough investigation is underway to ensure justice.
Speaking to ANI, Dubey said "The Pune incident has shaken the entire Maharashtra...We are living in modern times but such barbarism is happening in these times. Govt and those responsible for law & order are responsible for this. People swear by the law & order in Maharashtra."
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday welcomed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's decision to stop the appointment of some of the ministers' personal secretaries (PSs) and officers on special duty (OSDs) on the suspicion of them being "fixers".
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party Delhi on Tuesday attacked the Aam Aadmi Party over Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, calling former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal "sharab ka dalal" (broker of alcohol).
Bajwa likened the situation to the "Eknath Shinde episode" in Maharashtra, where Shiv Sena MLAs defected to form a new government. He further claimed that these MLAs are making 'advance bookings' just like people buy tickets for DSiljit Dosanjh's show in advance.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said that the border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka has been pending for a long time and that the Centre should work to expedite the case in the Supreme Court.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah should have a meeting with Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis and Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah so that incidents like assault in Belagavi are not repeated.
Shiv Sena (UBT) workers staged a protest in Pune's Swargate area on Saturday night, blackening buses with Karnataka number plates. This action followed the assault of a Marathi-speaking bus driver in Chitradurga, Karnataka, who was allegedly attacked for not speaking in Kannada.
He said that the government had ensured the security of a large number of Shiv Sena leaders, including Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who had left Uddhav Thackeray's leadership.
Shiv Sena leader Shaina NC congratulated Rekha Gupta on being elected as the new Delhi chief minister on Wednesday, saying that it is great that woman has got a chance to become the Chief Minister.
After the unprecedented success in the assembly elections, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde exhorted party workers to be ready for the upcoming municipal polls in the state.