Tanmay is a grandson of Devendra Fadnavis's aunt Shobatai Fadnavis, a senior BJP leader and former minister.
A Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party MLA over the weekend hit out at Akhtar and said no film involving him will be allowed to be screened till he apologises for his remarks.
Tens of thousands of mourning supporters and distraught family members today bid a tearful farewell to Gopinath Munde, Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party's tallest mass leader and architect of its impressive victory in the Lok Sabha elections, who was killed in a car crash on Tuesday.
Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ashish Shelar said he was shocked to note the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) disaster management cell for cyclone Nisarga will start functioning on Tuesday while the windstorm is only some hours away from hitting the state's coast.
The Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday requested President Pratibha Patil not to visit the plant of Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Ltd in Baramati on June 9.
Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party demanded on Monday that people in the state should be sanctioned 12 cylinders of LPG instead of six at subsidised rate before Diwali.
Senior Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Saturday met Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, in the backdrop of BJP president Nitin Gadkari taking offence at the language used to describe his party's leaders in Sena mouthpiece Saamna. Blaming Saamna editor Sanjay Raut, Gadkari had recently said such writings were causing a rift between the BJP-Shiv Sena's three-decade-old alliance.
Terming as "inappropriate" the transfer of Central Bureau of Investigation Joint Director Rishi Raj Singh who headed the probe in the Adarsh scam, a senior Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party leader has requested the Centre to put it on hold.
Vilasrao Deshmukh should quit the Union Cabinet in the wake of critical observations made by the Bombay high court on his role as the then chief minister in the land deal involving Subhash Ghai's Mukta Arts, Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party demanded on Saturday.
With the Opposition blaming Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal in the killing of additional district collector Yashwant Sonawane, state Home Minister R R Patil on Thursday said name of no politician has come across in the probe.
Hitting back at the Shiv Sena, Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the Uddhav Thackeray-led outfit's Hindutva is merely on paper and finds mention just in speeches, while it was his party men who faced bullets and lathis during the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
In the backdrop of the revelation that Wazhul Kamar Khan, whose name figures in the '50 most wanted' fugitives' list submitted to Pakistan, has been staying in neighbouring Thane district, the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said that Home Minister R R Patil should clear air on the issue.
In a stand that may widen the rift with Shiv Sena over the issue of north Indians living in Maharashtra, Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari on Monday said there was no conflict between regional and national identities and that his party did not believe in discrimination on this basis.
If their resignations are accepted, they may even go back to Bengaluru, they added.
At a time when its ally Shiv Sena has gone on the offensive over the vexed Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary row, Maharashtra BJP on Tuesday said it favours merger of the Marathi-speaking areas of Karnataka with the state. "The issue is before the Supreme Court. Maharashtra's side needs to be projected strongly," a resolution passed at a meeting of state BJP executive said.
Senior Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde on Tuesday said he would withdraw his resignation from the party general secretary post. Munde had earlier said he would stay in the party and that had never thought of joining any other platform.
BJP president Amit Shah will not attend the meeting of the newly-elected BJP MLAs to pick the legislature party leader.
Speaking during Prime Minister Narendra Modis video conference meeting with chief ministers of eight states which have reported high COVID-19 cases, Thackeray said the PM or Union Home Minister Amit Shah should convene a meeting of all parties to tell them about the seriousness of the situation.
According to sources, Gadkari, who is close to Uddhav Thackeray, arranged a meeting between the Sena leader and Goyal at his Worli residence. The meeting that lasted for nearly an hour, ended up with both sorting out the issue.
Buoyed by exit poll predictions, Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party unit has prepared a giant cake and as many as 40,000 laddoos to distribute among the people after the LokN Sabha election results on Friday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra objected to the pharma executive's grilling by Mumbai police, saying the Shiv Sena-led government in the state was playing politics amid the pandemic.
Khadse was sulking since he was made to resign as minister in 2016 in the then Fadnavis-led BJP govt over corruption charges.
I will help, 100 per cent. Come (to me) with your parents, the MLA said.
A team of BJP leaders visited over 15 families of the deceased in Raigad and Ratnagiri districts and offered jobs to the kin of the victims.
Fissures in Maha BJP were out in the open at a rally organised in memory of the late Gopinath Munde, with Eknath Khadse and Pankaja targeting former CM Devendra Fadnavis.
In an apparent attempt to cosy up with the Congress, the Shiv Sena has cautioned the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party government against preparing to win the next trust vote by suspending Congress legislators.
Ahead of the crucial trust vote in the Maharashtra assembly, the Shiv Sena has come out in the open criticising their former ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Angry over Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's comments to allegedly "demean" Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party unit on Sunday said its workers do not want any further seat-sharing talks between the two alliance partners for the next month's assembly polls.
Taking potshots at senior Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde, the Shiv Sena on Monday said it will be Narendra Modi who will have the final word on the issue of chief ministerial candidate in the assembly polls.
"All allegations levelled against me are baseless. I have received or made no international call from my mobile in the past one year, which my service provider 'Idea' has given me in writing," the minister told ANI.
Veteran Communist Party of India leader Govind Pansare, who was shot at earlier this week, died at a hospital in Mumbai late Friday night after he was airlifted for treatment to the city this evening from Kolhapur. He was 82.
Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party Legislature Party will meet on Tuesday to elect their leader, paving the way for him to meet Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao and stake claim to form the government.
The move came at a time when deliberations between the Congress, the NCP and the Shiv Sena seemingly reached the final stage on Friday.
'There are other prisoners too who are behaving in a good manner, but they are not being released sooner.'
Salman Khan in defence of Yakub Memon said the wrong man is being punished for the crimes.
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