Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, sitting BJP MP from Jalgaon, Unmesh Patil, joined the Uddhav Bal Thackeray (UBT) on Wednesday after being denied the ticket from the seat.
"The BJP is calling this rally, a rally of thugs but instead the people in the BJP are corrupt individuals, they are thugs," Uddhav Thackeray said at the Maha Rally at Ramlila Maidan here.
Union Minister and BJP's candidate from Mumbai North, Piyush Goyal hit back at Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray's criticism regarding proposal to shift slums to salt pan lands.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday issued a second summons to Shiv Sena (UBT) Lok Sabha candidate Amol Kirtikar for questioning in his alleged involvement in the 'khichdi' scam.
After being named as the Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate from the South Central Mumbai Constituency for the Lok Sabha elections, Anil Desai on Wednesday said that as it is a huge constituency, he will see what people's problems and their expectations are.
"Sena should not have announced the candidates for Mumbai South Central and Sangli. These were still under discussion," Thorat said speaking to ANI on Friday.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Tuesday summoned Dinesh Bobhate, a close aide of Uddhav faction leader Anil Desai, in an alleged money laundering case.
NCP (SCP) president Sharad Pawar visited the residence of Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday to attend a meeting of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.
After the Congress' Central Election Committee met on Wednesday to finalise candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, Maharashtra unit party President Nana Patole said that candidates have been finalised for 12 seats.
"There is a difference between our Hindutva and BJP's Hindutva. Our Hindutva is nationalist. Spreading hatred against other religions is not our Hindutva," Uddhav Thackeray said while addressing a rally in Maharashtra's Nanded on Tuesday.
Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi President Prakash Ambedkar on Tuesday decided to "lend full support" to the Congress on seven seats in Maharashtra in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections after being allegedly "snubbed" by the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar), other t