Maharashtra Assembly Election Result 2019

As the BJP stared at another disappointment this year in the form of the Jharkhand result, its former ally in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena, seized the chance to rub it in. The party took digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, noting that the citizenship law had "not benefited" the BJP and caused it to lose "one more state".

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress alliance had a decisive victory in Jharkhand as votes were counted on Monday, leaving the BJP with another big state loss this year. The BJP conceded defeat, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeting his "best wishes" to the JMM-led alliance. The JMM has won 30 seats and the Congress 16 while the BJP got 2...

The ruling BJP swept the Karnataka assembly bypolls on Monday, winning 12 of 15 seats to give the party a big boost after its Maharashtra setback. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa's four-month-old government -- formed with a narrow majority after defections from the previous Congress-Janata Dal Secular coalition -- needed only seven seats for a majori...

The leaders of the Maharashtra BJP -- who met at the house of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis -- have failed to come to a conclusion regarding the Governor's invite for government formation.

BJP leader and Maharashtra minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Friday strongly rejected Congress allegations that the party was trying to poach its MLAs and said the accusation was an insult to legislators of the opposition party.

The Congress in Maharashtra today accused the BJP of trying to lure away newly-elected opposition MLAs and blamed the party for delay in government formation in the state.

Shiv Sena MLAs are committed to the party and do not need sequestering to keep them from defecting, Sena MP Sanjay Raut said today, rubbishing reports.

The Shiv Sena has no option but to join hands with BJP to form government in Maharashtra under Devendra Fadnavis's leadership, their ally Ramdas Athawale said on Wednesday, soon after Sharad Pawar asserted that his party NCP will work as a "responsible opposition".

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar today said a BJP-Shiv Sena government is the only viable option in Maharashtra and the two parties should take power instead of plunging the state into a constitutional crisis.

Two days to the deadline for government formation in Maharashtra, a second meeting took place between Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday. Before the meeting, the Sena leader doubled down on the party's demand for the Chief Minister's post and said no new option would be discussed with a...

The impasse over a 50:50 power share in Maharashtra continuing unabated, the Shiv Sena has now appealed to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh - the ideological mentor of the BJP -- to help resolve the deadlock. In a letter, Shiv Sena leader Kishore Tiwari - known to be close to Union minister Nitin Gadkari -- has asked Mohan Bhagwat to step in, allegi...

Two meetings in Delhi today may have a bearing on Maharashtra, where government formation has been stalled for 11 days because of a power tussle between the BJP and its ally Shiv Sena, who won a clear majority together.

Political wrangling over formation of government in Maharashtra continued on Sunday even 10 days after the assembly poll verdict gave enough numbers to the BJP and the Shiv Sena which are unable to bury their differences over power sharing, a delay resulting into churning out of various speculations about likely political re-alignments.

The stand-off between the BJP and the Shiv Sena over government formation in Maharashtra is set to spill over into the national capital, with news that NCP chief Sharad Pawar is to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Monday

A farmer from Beed district in Maharashtra has offered to do what neither the Shiv Sena nor the BJP have been able to despite lakhs of farmers struggling to deal with mounting debts and crops destroyed by floods - name a Chief Minister.

As the BJP stared at another disappointment this year in the form of the Jharkhand result, its former ally in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena, seized the chance to rub it in. The party took digs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, noting that the citizenship law had "not benefited" the BJP and caused it to lose "one more state".

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress alliance had a decisive victory in Jharkhand as votes were counted on Monday, leaving the BJP with another big state loss this year. The BJP conceded defeat, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeting his "best wishes" to the JMM-led alliance. The JMM has won 30 seats and the Congress 16 while the BJP got 2...

The ruling BJP swept the Karnataka assembly bypolls on Monday, winning 12 of 15 seats to give the party a big boost after its Maharashtra setback. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa's four-month-old government -- formed with a narrow majority after defections from the previous Congress-Janata Dal Secular coalition -- needed only seven seats for a majori...

The leaders of the Maharashtra BJP -- who met at the house of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis -- have failed to come to a conclusion regarding the Governor's invite for government formation.

BJP leader and Maharashtra minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Friday strongly rejected Congress allegations that the party was trying to poach its MLAs and said the accusation was an insult to legislators of the opposition party.

The Congress in Maharashtra today accused the BJP of trying to lure away newly-elected opposition MLAs and blamed the party for delay in government formation in the state.

Shiv Sena MLAs are committed to the party and do not need sequestering to keep them from defecting, Sena MP Sanjay Raut said today, rubbishing reports.

The Shiv Sena has no option but to join hands with BJP to form government in Maharashtra under Devendra Fadnavis's leadership, their ally Ramdas Athawale said on Wednesday, soon after Sharad Pawar asserted that his party NCP will work as a "responsible opposition".

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar today said a BJP-Shiv Sena government is the only viable option in Maharashtra and the two parties should take power instead of plunging the state into a constitutional crisis.

Two days to the deadline for government formation in Maharashtra, a second meeting took place between Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday. Before the meeting, the Sena leader doubled down on the party's demand for the Chief Minister's post and said no new option would be discussed with a...

The impasse over a 50:50 power share in Maharashtra continuing unabated, the Shiv Sena has now appealed to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh - the ideological mentor of the BJP -- to help resolve the deadlock. In a letter, Shiv Sena leader Kishore Tiwari - known to be close to Union minister Nitin Gadkari -- has asked Mohan Bhagwat to step in, allegi...

Two meetings in Delhi today may have a bearing on Maharashtra, where government formation has been stalled for 11 days because of a power tussle between the BJP and its ally Shiv Sena, who won a clear majority together.

Political wrangling over formation of government in Maharashtra continued on Sunday even 10 days after the assembly poll verdict gave enough numbers to the BJP and the Shiv Sena which are unable to bury their differences over power sharing, a delay resulting into churning out of various speculations about likely political re-alignments.

The stand-off between the BJP and the Shiv Sena over government formation in Maharashtra is set to spill over into the national capital, with news that NCP chief Sharad Pawar is to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Monday

A farmer from Beed district in Maharashtra has offered to do what neither the Shiv Sena nor the BJP have been able to despite lakhs of farmers struggling to deal with mounting debts and crops destroyed by floods - name a Chief Minister.