Three days before the crucial Mumbai corporation elections, Bal Thackeray in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN slams Sharad Pawar and Prithviraj Chavan for saying the Shiv Sena is on the decline. ...
12:07 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray on Sunday doesn't rule out accepting estranged nephew Raj Thackeray back in the party but says Raj will need to take the first step. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Thackeray also touched upon many issues. Thackeray also admitted that Raj's exit has resulted in a split in the Marathi vote bank. He also added that a split in the Marathi vote bank is bound to...
06:58 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Mumbai: Hitting out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that he pitied him. "I feel pity for him. It is unfortunate that he is the Chief Minister of the state," Uddhav said. Chavan had on Wednesday said that Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray will become inconsequential after the February 16 Mumbai civic polls. Mentioning "piles of pending files" with the Chief Minister,...
03:47 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Mumbai: Miffed at being denied permission to hold election rally at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday said "best friends" NCP and Shiv Sena were indulging in politics to prevent him from campaigning. "NCP and Shiv Sena, who are best friends are indulging in politics to prevent me from campaigning," Raj told reporters in Mumbai. When asked how he plans to hold...
09:56 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray announced on Sunday the first list of his party's candidates for the Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik municipal corporation elections in Mumbai. Addressing a press conference, Raj said the lists for Nagpur, Solapur, Amravati, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Ulhasnagar and Akola would be declared at the local level soon. He released the list of 208 candidates out of the 227 wards in Mumbai, 138 out of...
05:39 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Mumbai: Apparently irked by a report in Marathi daily 'Maharashtra Times' which speculated that a sitting Shiv Sena MP was on his way to NCP, alleged Sena workers on Saturday vandalised the reception area of Times of India (TOI) building in Mumbai. Sixteen people had been detained in connection with the attack, said Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Rajnish Seth. While the police did not say which party...
07:36 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Mumbai: Three-year-old Arundhati Anand, who suffered severe head injuries in an accident with Shiv Sena MP Bharatkumar Raut's car on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on January 22, succumbed to her wounds on Tuesday morning in Aditya Birla Hospital, Chinchwad. CEO of Aditya Birla Hospital Rekha Dubey said, "As Arundhati's condition was deteriorating rapidly, she was put on ventilator. She breathed her last early in the morning." Dr Umesh Phalke, who also...
12:02 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Mumbai: The BJP on Tuesday released the first list of 32 candidates, including 13 women, for the February 16 elections to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Mumbai BJP President Raj Purohit, who released the list, said the party has decided not to give tickets to relatives of the leaders. "We have given opportunity to over 20 new faces in which 13 are women," he said. Ten sitting BJP Corporators, including Deputy...
12:23 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Jaitapur Nuclear power plant protests scheduled for Tuesday have now been been postponed till February 7, keeping in mind the upcoming Zilla Parishad elections. Shiv Sena activists have told villagers that they wouldn't be able to sit for the 'jail bharo' because of the election code of conduct. Reports said that the planned 'jail bharo' agitation in and around JNPP site area on January 24 and 25...
10:14 AM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Babri Masjid demolition is just an incident and there is nothing famous or infamous about it, the Supreme Court said on Monday while listing Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) plea for levelling charges of criminal conspiracy against senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and 18 others to March 27. "What is famous about it. It was an incident which happened...
04:29 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said Shiv Sena had completely failed in ruling the country's premier civic body, the Mumbai municipal corporation. Addressing party workers here, Chavan said though Congress had decided to align with NCP for next month's municipal corporation polls to defeat "communal forces", it will go alone in Zilla Parishad elections as the party wanted to reach the grassroot level. He also released a...
04:23 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Mumbai: Targeting AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray said the Congress leader has no prospects of becoming Prime Minister of the country. "Never. Its not possible," Thackeray said in the second part of his interview to his party mouthpiece 'Saamna', when he was asked whether the Congress scion will become the PM. Thackeray said, he does not see leadership qualities in today's Congress leaders. "The era...
02:04 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has attacked Team Anna, calling its members "a bunch of worthless persons". Thackeray hit out at Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia but did not name Anna Hazare. "There are differences between them (Team Anna). They are all worthless.... Kejriwal, Bedi, Sisodia. All are worthless," he said in an interview in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'. The Sena chief also ridiculed Hazare's "five-star, corporate" hunger...
06:29 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Mumbai: In the past few days, BMC officials of the H (West) ward have been exhibiting uncharacteristic enterprise in examining and fixing intermittent mounds on the road. Officials will tell you that these difficult-to-negotiate tar layers are applied over manhole covers with the intention of keeping them in place and protecting them from theft. The sudden and unprecedented ardour to level them may have something to do with the fact...
04:26 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Mumbai: Anna Hazare should introspect why and due to whom his fast for a strong Lokpal bill at the MMRDA ground in Mumbai, fizzled out, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said on Friday. "Even his favourite media turned against him and are giving sensational news on how the agitation turned out to be a flop show," Thackeray said, in an editorial in party mouth-piece 'Saamana'. There was no need for...
04:34 PM, Dec 30, 2011
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