In a dramatic development, in the wee hours of Tuesday, the speaker of the Goa assembly, the BJP’s Pramod Sawant, was sworn in as the new chief minister of the state. The chief minister’s post fell vacant after the death of Manohar Parrikar.
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The Congress has pointed out to the Goa governor, Mridula Sinha, that the BJP has lost the support of both MGP and GFP as they had joined the BJP in February 2017 on the condition that Parrikar should be the chief minister.
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The Congress announced its second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha election. In the 21-candidate list, five are from Maharashtra and the rest 16 are from Uttar Pradesh. Raj Babbar will contest from the Moradabad while Priya Dutt will contest from the Mumbai North-Central.
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Devendra Fadnavis said, “Both parties have been together for over 25 years, and even though there have been some misunderstandings in recent times, the original ideology of both parties is the same — Hindutva.”
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The hearing of a public interest litigation challenging the Maharashtra government’s November 2018 announcement of maratha quota is scheduled to begin from February 6 in the high court.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party president, Amit Shah, on Sunday, has hinted at advancing the assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana to club them with the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
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The Supreme Court, on Thursday, relaxed the tough rules imposed by the Maharashtra government for getting licences for dance bars paving the way for their opening in Mumbai and other cities in the state.
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Following the Maharashtra government’s decision to grant 16 per cent reservation for the maratha community in government jobs and educational institutions, the brahman community in the state is now demanding survey of social and economic status of the community.
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The Maharashtra government, on Sunday, has approved the recommendations submitted by the State Backward Class Commission to grant maratha community in the state reservation under newly created “socially and educationally backward class”.
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Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, while addressing a BJP meeting in Mumbai, tried to highlight BJP’s “four years of good governance” against the Congress-NCP government’s “15 years of misrule”.
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