Phule Wada News Today

Pilgrim sites, monuments to be developed; memorials to be built

Apart from the students' march, a lecture was delivered by Maya Pandit-Narkar, former Vice-Chancellor of EFL University in Hyderabad.

In view of the space crunch at Bhidewada, the deputy CM said the government will discuss the issue with experts and then prepare a development plan for the memorial.

Bhujbal, who has strongly opposed the demand to include the Marathas in the other backward classes category for quota benefits, said a new social system is taking shape in Maharashtra which is different from the order envisaged by prominent social reformers.

Bhujbal was speaking at Nashik on Monday while addressing the Satya Shodak Samaj centenary year conference which is organised in the memory of late Hari Narke

NCP MLA Rohit Pawar and other leaders of his party sat on a token hunger strike to protest against the Maharashtra government's decision on staff recruitment

Maharashtra cabinet minister Chhagan Bhujbal criticized NCP founder Sharad Pawar for frequently changing his stand on alliances with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bhujbal, who recently broke away from NCP to join the Eknath Shinde government, claimed that 45 of the 53 NCP MLAs have gone with Ajit Pawar. He denied changing his ideology and said they have aligned with BJP but not merged with them.

Bhujbal said Sharad Pawar announced support to the BJP in 2014 after it formed government following the Assembly polls without the Shiv Senas backing.

Bhujbal claimed 45 of the 53 NCP MLAs have gone with Ajit Pawar and said, 'What would have I done by remaining outside'

Bhujbal, who was sworn in as a minister on June 2 following Ajit Pawar and a significant faction of the NCP joining the NDA government in Maharashtra, paid tribute to the statues of Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule at Phule Wada.