Mumbai: Ahead of the Lok Sabha results, two leaders from warring factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) put up a small show of bonhomie over their opposition to the inclusion of certain verses from the ‘Manusmiriti,’ a Hindu scripture describing the social system, in the Maharashtra school curriculum. Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior leader from … Read more
Mumbai: The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which got just four parliamentary seats within the Mahayuti alliance, has started posturing for the Maharashtra polls to send a clear message that it would not be short-changed in the next round of elections. At a meeting on Monday in Mumbai, senior leaders decided to make it clear … Read more
NASHIK: Leaders of the OBC community plan to send at least 1 lakh objections to state government’s draft notification on Maratha reservation from each district, said cabinet minister Chhagan Bhujbal.Bhujbal has been spearheading a peaceful movement against any move of state government to provide reservation to the Maratha community within the OBC quota.“OBC workers have … Read more
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced that the resignation of senior OBC leader and state cabinet minister Chhagan Bhujbal has not been accepted. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will provide further clarification on this matter. Bhujbal, who accused the Maharashtra government of facilitating the inclusion of the Maratha community in the OBC quota, had previously … Read more
Mumbai: Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Other Backward Class (OBC) face Chhagan Bhujbal revealed that he had resigned from the cabinet on 16 November — a day before the first OBC rally was held in the state. It was while speaking at the mega OBC rally in Ahmednagar Saturday, that Bhujbal made this … Read more
Mumbai: Senior leaders Chhagan Bhujbal and Narayan Rane questioning the Eknath Shinde-led Mahayuti government’s decision to grant OBC quota to the Marathas has not only exposed the opposing views within the ruling parties but also the faultlines of Maharashtra’s ruling coalition. Shinde had met Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil and assured him about the reservation before … Read more
Mumbai: The Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government’s decision to meet Maratha leader Manoj Jarange Patil’s demands to be accommodated in the state’s Other Backward Class (OBC) quota has once again left one of its own ministers — the Nationalist Congress Party Ajit Pawar faction’s (NCP) Chhagan Bhujbal — miffed. Following the government’s decision to grant Kunbi … Read more
MUMBAI: Observing that the Benami Transactions Prohibition law amended in 2016 does not have retrospective effect, the Bombay HC quashed a 2021 complaint and court summons against NCP leader and minister Chhagan Bhujbal, his son Pankaj and nephew Sameer Bhujbal regarding alleged benami assets held by three companies.The I-T department had in 2021 invoked a … Read more
Mumbai: BJP minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Tuesday asked his Cabinet colleague Chhagan Bhujbal of the NCP to resign if he wants to continue making statements that create confusion about the Maharashtra government’s stand on Maratha quota. In Kolhapur, Vikhe Patil, a Maratha himself, said Bhujbal should tender his resignation, or else Chief Minister Eknath Shinde … Read more
Mumbai: Maharashtra’s Other Backward Classes (OBCs) staged their first protest rally at Jalna in the Marathwada region Friday with Chhagan Bhujbal, a minister in the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, as their star speaker. The protest rally, which came on the heels of an intense stir by the Maratha community, marked fresh trouble for the Shinde … Read more