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A successful businesswoman, who runs a multistate Godavari Urban Credit Co-op Society, Patil accepts that she was not prepared as her name was announced a day before the final date of filing nominations.

The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra has reached a deal for the state's 48 Lok Sabha seats - 10 days before the start of the election - senior bloc leaders said Tuesday morning

Party leaders say ex-CM messed up seat-sharing talks; you did it, not me, the BJP leader tells former colleagues

Alleges talks for Mumbai seats done in a way that Congress will be wiped out, leaving entire opposition space to Uddhav Thackeray

All six seats in Mumbai City and Suburbs will go to polls on May 20, the last and fifth round of elections in Maharashtra.

Ex-Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's resignation from the Congress Monday - within days of two other senior figures quitting - has jeopardised his former party's Rajya Sabha plans.

Speaker Rahul Narwekar said that while deciding which was the real political party, he did follow three criterion set by Supreme Court which are constitution, organisational structure and legislative majority.

The reports of Deora's defection surfaced amid the rift between the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and their ally, the Congress, over the Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency.

Sena (UBT) chief earlier said: "We are glad about the Ram Mandir but I have been saying it should remain a matter of faith and not take a political colour. We will go to Ayodhya whenever we wish"

Maharashtra Speaker's verdict in the Shiv Sena MLAs' disqualification case, which went in favour of Eknath Shinde's faction, was "not at all surprising", but should be challenged in the Supreme Court Team Thackeray, NCP founder Sharad Pawar said.