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Alliance with Shiv Sena limited to Maharashtra: Cong minister Speaking to reporters here, the state PWD Minister also said that it was not proper on part of the Sena to comment on the leadership of the UPA. Updated: December 28, 2020 12:53:50 pm Chavan said, "Our alliance with the Sena in Maharashtra is based on a Common Minimum Programme (CMP) and limited to Maharashtra." Senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Sunday said that the Shiv Sena was not part of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the tie-up between the two parties is limited to Maharasht...

Uddhav Thackeray A Congress delegation led by party’s state president Balasaheb Thorat met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday to formally raise the demand for reservations for SC/ST entrepreneurs in government contracts and projects. Thackeray told the delegation that he will discuss the issue in the coming cabinet meeting. Congress president Sonia Gandhi had on December 14 written to Thackeray, stating the demand and also pushing for various other welfare activities for the SC/ST communities.

In the letter, dated December 14, Gandhi reminded Thackeray of the common minimum programme (CMP) of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government and sought implementation of certain measures for the welfare of Dalits and tribals. She demanded reservation in government contracts for SC/ST professionals to promote entrepreneurship among them, among other things. The letter was significant as Gandhi has written to Thackeray for the first time since her party and the NCP formed an unlikely alliance with the Shiv Sena last year. The three parties had worked out the CMP before forming the alliance after ...

There is a fable about a venomous serpent which often bit people and sucked their lives out through its poison. Counselled by a sage, the repentant snake decided to renounce its violent ways. Days later, when the revered master was passing by the same route, he saw the reptile lying in a piteous state by the roadside. The grievously injured snake complained that since it had stopped biting people, they overcame their fear and pelted it with stones. Alas, said the sage, along with biting, you also gave up hissing. The letter by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to Maharashtra chief minister and ...

Cong should contest Mumbai civic elections alone: Ashok Jagtap Former Maharashtra minister Naseem Khan, who has been newly named as the campaign committee head for the Mumbai polls, also echoed Jagtap’s opinion. Updated: December 21, 2020 1:08:25 am Ruling out infighting, Jagtap, on Sunday, said that “his job as the captain of the Mumbai unit would be to keep the flock together.” (Twitter@BhaiJagtap1) Setting the tone for the Congress for Mumbai civic elections, party’s newly appointed Mumbai unit chief, Ashok (Bhai) Jagtap, said on Sunday that the...