Former Maharashtra chief minister Vilas Deshmukh on the lack of support from the Congress, the proposed electoral alliance with the NCP, and his son's entry into films.
'In a coalition government, you have to survive and then you have to run the government. In single-party government you have to only run the government. You don't have to think of survival,' says former Maharashtra chief minister Vilas Deshmukh.
Reader Vilas Deshmukh spotted McLaren's Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain.
Reader Vilas Deshmukh sent us this picture from Doha, Qatar.
Shinde had retained most of the sitting MLAs, who chose to be with him when he led the rebellion two years ago. They delivered for him on Saturday when votes for the state polls were counted.
"The Sukhoi will invest Euro 2 billion (Rs 13,600 crore) for manufacturing about 25 to 50 super jets initially and later 100 aircraft at full capacity," Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Vilas Muttemwar said on Friday.
After snapping ties with the Congress in the run up to the October 15 Maharashtra polls, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party has decided to support Congress rebel Vilas Patil Undalkar against former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan from the Karad South assembly constituency.
Shatrughan Sinha is said to be miffed at being "sidelined" in the party and the government.
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He is among the contenders for the top job in the event the BJP gets fewer seats in 2019. That may have something to do with him picking up the cudgels for Sushma Swaraj when many in the party kept mum, says Aditi Phadnis.
Central pool of onions to be set up; offences under Essential Commodities Act to be made non-bailable.
'Haven't you heard of the magical EVM machines? They can negate all our votes.' 'There is no hope. Modi is India's Putin.'
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