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Maharashtra’s caretaker Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis believes he will form the next state government with the Shiv Sena’s backing, and the BJP and the Uddhav Thackeray-led party never agreed to a 50-50 power-sharing formula, BJP sources said in Mumbai. According to the sources, Fadnavis has rejected the idea that the party needs a fallback plan, even as the Sena continues to press its demands. The standoff The BJP won 105 seats and the Sena 56 in the new Assembly, and the two allies have been locked in a bitter disputeRead More

BJP president and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has indicated that the party is open to giving its ally the Shiv Sena the post of deputy chief minister in Maharashtra, while making clear that Devendra Fadnavis would remain Chief Minister if the NDA won the state election. On the top post In an interview with Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Shah played down Sena statements that the next Chief Minister should be a Shiv Sainik, saying he did not see them as a big threat to the alliance. “It is veryRead More

Dozens of political and social activists, among them a senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, joined the BJP in Jammu on Wednesday, according to a party official. Who joined According to a party spokesman, those joining included Krishan Kumar Dingra, the NCP’s state vice president, along with Rattan Chand, chairman of its Scheduled Caste and Backward Class cell, Ved Raj Bharti, the joint state secretary, and Dewan Chand, the state cashier. They were inducted at the BJP headquarters with senior leaders such as Ashok Kaul, the party’s state general secretaryRead More

The Pala Assembly constituency in Kerala is heading for a three-cornered contest in the by-election on September 23, as both the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) are repeating their candidates from the 2016 election. The candidates The NDA has named N Hari, the BJP’s Kottayam district president. In 2016 he won 17.76 per cent of the vote, a result that surprised both the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the LDF. The LDF has again chosen Nationalist Congress Party leader Mani C. Kappen, whoRead More

The BJP on Sunday called a 12-hour bandh in the Barrackpore constituency for Monday, protesting what it said was an attack on its MP Arjun Singh. Singh suffered head injuries on Sunday at Kankinara in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, where police allegedly used batons to clear a road blockade. The party’s protest plans The state unit said the bandh would begin at 6 am, with a protest march setting off from Shyambazar Crossing in Kolkata at 10:30 am. The party also planned a sit-in over political violence inRead More