Chavan entered the ED office in south Mumbai at around 12.30 pm and came out at about 9 pm, the official said.
Continuing his tirade against Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today asked whether the Congress leader was the CM of Maharashtra or Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's bodyguard.
Brushing aside speculation about a leadership change in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan virtually confirmed on Thursday that he is not going to be replaced.
Contradicting Ashok Chavan, the promoter of scam-tainted Adarsh Society on Monday said the former Maharashtra chief minister himself had suggested increase in the number of civilians in the society, which was essentially meant for defence personnels.
Amid speculations that a leadership change may accompany the impending reshuffle of state cabinet, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday said not much should be read into the state Congress leaders meeting party chief Sonia Gandhi.
The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Sunday decided not to challenge the Board of Control for Cricket in India-imposed life ban on tainted player Ankeet Chavan despite a Delhi Court dropping criminal charges against him
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan came under a scathing attack at a meeting of the All India Congress Committee headed by senior leader A K Antony, with some state leaders telling the high command that the party's fate would be no better in the assembly polls due by October.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday sought to allay the ruffled nerves of Mumbai's nightlife-lovers, currently reeling under the raids by Assistant Commissioner of Police Vasant Dhoble and his team.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said no decision had been taken on the proposal to transfer Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik.
Asserting that the perception about his being slow in administrative work was far from reality, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday said the pace of his work was in fact faster than that of his three predecessors during the 13-year-old democratic front government in the state.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan was among 13 people chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday in the multi-crore Adarsh Housing scam.
The Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar on met Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and his Cabinet colleagues and took stock of the situation in the wake of the devastating fire at the state secretariat.
Notwithstanding the verdict of a Delhi court dropping charges against former India pacer Shantakumaran Sreesanth and two other cricketers in the 2013 spot-fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to stick to its ban on the three cricketers for the time being.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said he was not under any pressure from his party high command during the stand-off with ally Nationalist Congress Party and reported dissidence within his own ranks.
Govt won't backtrack even as traders' bodies continue to oppose the new levy.
In a possible relief for former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, the Central Bureau of Investigation moved the Bombay high court seeking permission to delete his name from the FIR in the Adarsh Housing scam case.
Earlier, 24 deaths were reported at the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded in 24 hours between September 30 and October 1. Twelve of the 24 deceased were infants, a top Maharashtra health department official said on Monday.
Chief Minister designate Ashok Chavan on Friday met Governor S C Jamir and staked claim to form the next government, 15 days after the Congress-NCP haggled over the portfolio issue.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday sought exemption to appear as a witness efore the two-member commission probing the Adarsh housing scam.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has written to Prithviraj Chavan and the state chief secretary, claiming that the Adarsh inquiry Commission report does not do him justice and is against the principles of natural justice.
Hinting at the possible post-poll strategy of his party, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday said the chances of Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister were slim, and the Congress could form the next government by joining hands with "the Third Front".
In fresh trouble for former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, the Election Commission on Sunday slapped a showcause notice on him for failing to lodge his election expenses as per law in a paid news case and asked him why he should not be disqualified.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday held parleys with the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Haryana amidst the possibility of a change of guard in some of the states where it is in power as the party prepares for a massive rejig in the wake of its unprecedented debacle in Lok Sabha polls.
Taking an aggressive stand on the incidents of heckling at functions attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Congress-ruled states, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said he would not attend Thursday's function in Nagpur.
"If Ajit Pawar was unhappy in the Congress-NCP government, he should have left that time itself," Patole told reporters.
Countering Shiv Sena's anti-migrant stand, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Thursday said Mumbai welcomed everyone provided they do not 'encroach on the land illegally.'
As the state gets ready for a four-cornered electoral test on Wednesday, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has emerged as the most popular politician online, according to a study.
Ajit Pawar said that industry had 'lost its soul' in Pran's death.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday did not name former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in the benami property related to purchase of flat in the Adarsh Housing Society in Mumbai.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday said that electronic meters will be installed in auto rickshaws in Mumbai and the neighbouring Thane in a "phased manner".
The investigating agencies could not expose the masterminds behind the murder of rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar, and must introspect whether it was a mere failure or a 'deliberate inaction' due to the influence of any 'person in power', the trial court here said on Friday in its judgment.
There are no biennial elections from Karnataka, from where Rajashekharan was elected to Rajya Sabha, as the assembly has been dissolved while in Madhya Pradesh, Pachauri's home state, the Congress has not enough strength to get even a single member through.
President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Prithviraj Chavan from the Union Council of Ministers and asked Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal to hold additional charge of two ministries independently handled by him.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will embark on a fresh padayatra (foot march) from Gujarat to Meghalaya and during that period leaders and workers of the party's Maharashtra unit would criss-cross the state, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole said on Tuesday.
The Congress high command has decided that Chavan who was 10, Janpath's handpicked choice for the post after 26/11 will have to go. But the only question, according to sources, before the Congress is when to show him the door.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday claimed that the centre imposed President's rule in the state even after the governor had asked him to continue as caretaker chief minister.
The BCCI has made it very clear that it was not having second thoughts on revoking the ban on former India pacer S Sreesanth and spinner Ankeet Chavan in the wake of a Delhi Court dropping all charges against them in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing case.
The Election Commission of India will on Friday hear a petition which makes serious allegations of electoral malpractices against Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan. The issue has multiple ramifications for Indian democracy, polity and media. The issue has rattled CM Chavan who, if convicted, can face disqualification from the legislature for three years. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kirit Somaiya, one of the complainants against Chavan, explains his case.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday announced setting up of "appropriate" memorial of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji in the Arabian sea off the Mumbai coast.
From the relative obscurity in the backroom of the Prime Minister's Office to the most coveted seat of power in Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan has reaped the reward for his personal integrity, professional ability and unflinching loyalty to 10, Janpath.
