Maharashtra Assembly Election 2019

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray of betraying the BJP for the chief minister's post after the Maharashtra Assembly elections in 2019 by joining hands with Nationalist Congress Party and Congres

The MVA, formed after the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections when Uddhav Thackeray fell out with old ally BJP, comprises the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), NCP, and Congress.

If you thought that after the humiliation of 2019, Congress would push to win the next rounds, you are wrong. They failed in Haryana, they did badly in Maharashtra, they were blown away in Assam.

Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said he did not promise Shiv Sena - then BJP's ally - to share the chief minister's post if the alliance retained power in Maharashtra after the 2019 assembly election. Shiv Sena, which broke ties with the BJP soon after the election to form government with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress, shot ba...

Amid allegations that an agency owned by a BJP leader was hired for election-related online ads during the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls, the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that the selection of the firm was done by the state Directorate General of Information and Public Relations (DGIPR).

NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Thursday that representatives of minority communities have conveyed that they would not mind if his party joined hands with the Shiv Sena, but the BJP must be kept away from power in Maharashtra.

Two years ago the BJP's hold on the country was near-absolute. Fast forward to the end of 2019 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has seen its hold on state-level politics weaken alarmingly

As the BJP stared at another disappointment this year in the form of the Jharkhand result, its former ally in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena, seized the chance to rub it in. The party took digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, noting that the citizenship law had "not benefited" the BJP and caused it to lose "one more state".

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress alliance had a decisive victory in Jharkhand as votes were counted on Monday, leaving the BJP with another big state loss this year. The BJP conceded defeat, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeting his "best wishes" to the JMM-led alliance. The JMM has won 30 seats and the Congress 16 while the BJP got 2...

The ruling BJP swept the Karnataka assembly bypolls on Monday, winning 12 of 15 seats to give the party a big boost after its Maharashtra setback. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa's four-month-old government -- formed with a narrow majority after defections from the previous Congress-Janata Dal Secular coalition -- needed only seven seats for a majori...

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the BJP got 105 seats in Maharashtra and they (Shiv Sena) won on "our shoulders".

Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Saturday said that if the BJP would have contested assembly elections in Maharashtra alone, it would have got two-thirds majority.

A 50:50 power sharing formula that ended the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance could form the blueprint for the fresh political alignment that's under discussion in Maharashtra. A day after President's Rule was declared in the state, sources told NDTV that the Shiv Sena, Congress and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party have come to a basic agreement, in...

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met with Congress leader Ahmed Patel last night as the two ideologically contrasting parties explored ways of getting together to form a government in Maharashtra, hours after President's Rule was imposed in the state.

Maharashtra has been placed under President's Rule on Tuesday but that didn't stop allies Congress and NCP from holding discussions on whether to support the Shiv Sena in forming government.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray of betraying the BJP for the chief minister's post after the Maharashtra Assembly elections in 2019 by joining hands with Nationalist Congress Party and Congres

The MVA, formed after the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections when Uddhav Thackeray fell out with old ally BJP, comprises the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), NCP, and Congress.

If you thought that after the humiliation of 2019, Congress would push to win the next rounds, you are wrong. They failed in Haryana, they did badly in Maharashtra, they were blown away in Assam.

Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said he did not promise Shiv Sena - then BJP's ally - to share the chief minister's post if the alliance retained power in Maharashtra after the 2019 assembly election. Shiv Sena, which broke ties with the BJP soon after the election to form government with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress, shot ba...

Amid allegations that an agency owned by a BJP leader was hired for election-related online ads during the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls, the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that the selection of the firm was done by the state Directorate General of Information and Public Relations (DGIPR).

NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Thursday that representatives of minority communities have conveyed that they would not mind if his party joined hands with the Shiv Sena, but the BJP must be kept away from power in Maharashtra.

Two years ago the BJP's hold on the country was near-absolute. Fast forward to the end of 2019 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has seen its hold on state-level politics weaken alarmingly

As the BJP stared at another disappointment this year in the form of the Jharkhand result, its former ally in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena, seized the chance to rub it in. The party took digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, noting that the citizenship law had "not benefited" the BJP and caused it to lose "one more state".

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress alliance had a decisive victory in Jharkhand as votes were counted on Monday, leaving the BJP with another big state loss this year. The BJP conceded defeat, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeting his "best wishes" to the JMM-led alliance. The JMM has won 30 seats and the Congress 16 while the BJP got 2...

The ruling BJP swept the Karnataka assembly bypolls on Monday, winning 12 of 15 seats to give the party a big boost after its Maharashtra setback. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa's four-month-old government -- formed with a narrow majority after defections from the previous Congress-Janata Dal Secular coalition -- needed only seven seats for a majori...

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the BJP got 105 seats in Maharashtra and they (Shiv Sena) won on "our shoulders".

Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Saturday said that if the BJP would have contested assembly elections in Maharashtra alone, it would have got two-thirds majority.

A 50:50 power sharing formula that ended the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance could form the blueprint for the fresh political alignment that's under discussion in Maharashtra. A day after President's Rule was declared in the state, sources told NDTV that the Shiv Sena, Congress and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party have come to a basic agreement, in...

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met with Congress leader Ahmed Patel last night as the two ideologically contrasting parties explored ways of getting together to form a government in Maharashtra, hours after President's Rule was imposed in the state.

Maharashtra has been placed under President's Rule on Tuesday but that didn't stop allies Congress and NCP from holding discussions on whether to support the Shiv Sena in forming government.