Pankaja Munde

Nitin Gadkari, Pankaja Munde Absent From Maharashtra BJP Executive Meet

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 21, 2019

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Women and Children Development minister Pankaja Munde were absent today from the executive meeting of the state unit of the BJP.

"Should've Strapped Bomb On Rahul Gandhi": Pankaja Munde Drops A Shocker

India News | Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Monday April 22, 2019

BJP leader Pankaja Munde today took the political discourse down a further notch, suggesting that those sceptical about the surgical strikes conducted by the army would be convinced only if the explosives were strapped onto Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

In Beed, Sitting BJP Lawmaker Pritam Munde Faces NCP's Bajrang Sonawane

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday April 14, 2019

The BJP's sitting MP Pritam Munde and the NCP's Bajrang Sonawane might be up against each other in the Beed Lok Sabha seat, but on the ground, it is more a battle of one-upmanship between the district's guardian minister Pankaja Munde and her cousin and senior NCP leader Dhananjay Munde.

"Make Pankaja Munde CM For An Hour": Shiv Sena Pokes BJP On Quota Stir

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday July 28, 2018

Taking a dig at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the Shiv Sena today said that his cabinet colleague Pankaja Munde should be made the chief minister for at least an hour to clear the Maratha reservation file.

Opposition Slams Maharashtra Government Over Funds For Food At Anganwadis

Mumbai News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday March 7, 2018

Opposition Congress and NCP today staged a walk-out from the Maharashtra Assembly to protest 'delay' in sanctioning of funds for providing nutritious food to pregnant women and children at Anganwadis.

Irregularities In Scheme For Children, Pankaja Munde Must Resign: AAP

India News | Written by Saurabh Gupta and Prasad Kathe | Wednesday May 31, 2017

Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde has been accused by the Maharashtra wing of the Aam Aadmi Party of nepotism and facilitating a scam in the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), a welfare programme run by the government which provides food, pre-school education, and primary healthcare to children under six year...

Pankaja Munde Offers To Quit As BJP Loses Seats In Her Home Turf

India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Thursday February 23, 2017

Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde today offered to resign after the BJP lost most of its seats in local body elections in her home turf.

Pankaja Munde Gets Clean Chit In 'Chikki' Case

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 21, 2016

The Anti-Corruption Bureau has given a clean chit to Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde in the 'chikki' case.

Swipe To Report Child Abuse: Now A Government App To Keep Crime In Check

Reuters | Monday November 14, 2016

Mumbai: In an effort to protect children, Maharashtra has launched a mobile app for people to report child abuse, after a series of abuses came to light. The Maharashtra State Child Rights Protection Commission launched the Child Helpline for Information on Rights and Address Grievances (Chirag), a mobile application for Android phones that also p...

Villages In Maharashtra To Get 'Electric Manager' To Resolve Issues

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday October 21, 2016

The Maharashtra government today said it will implement 'one village, one rural electric manager' scheme to ensure that problems of the rural population regarding electricity connections are resolved swiftly.

Behind BJP's Assurance Of Reservation For Marathas, Signs Of A Rift

India News | Written by Ketki Angre | Sunday October 9, 2016

Even though the Maharashtra BJP passed a resolution saying it supports reservation for Marathas and it is in line with what the government has promised, the decision has brought to the fore divisions within the party.

Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde In Fresh Row Over 'Threat' Audio Clip

India News | Reported by Anant R Zanane (With inputs from agencies) | Saturday October 8, 2016

Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde, in audio clips that are being circulated on social media, can be heard making veiled threats to the priest of a popular temple in her constituency.

Shiv Sena Takes A Dig At NCP For Ignoring Ex-Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal

Mumbai News | Press Trust of India | Friday September 23, 2016

Taking a jibe at the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leadership, the Shiv Sena today said that the party had ignored its former leader Chhagan Bhujbal, who was arrested in March on corruption charges, while even the BJP's Pankaja Munde went to meet him on "humanitarian grounds" in the JJ Hospital where he is recuperating.

Kids Dying Of Malnutrition In Palghar, Maharashtra Stirs Into Action

Ankita Sinha (With Inputs From Agencies) (With Inputs From Agencies) | Friday September 23, 2016

Jawhar, Palghar: At the Patangshah cottage hospital in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, the mood is tense. With 22 severely malnourished children admitted here, their parents are a worried lot. Ajit Khadam, father of eight month-old Suraj told NDTV, “My son weights 3.5 kg. Doctors say that’s half of what is considered normal weight for childre...

Pankaja Munde Using Delhi SUV In Mumbai Without Paying Tax, Says AAP

Mumbai News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday July 27, 2016

The Aam Aadmi Party has accused Women and Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde of "avoiding" paying tax to the Maharashtra government despite using a Delhi-registered SUV in Mumbai, and "illegally" fitting a red beacon on it, which it accused is a "common practice" for VVIPs of the BJP-Sena government.