Maharashtra By Election Results

The problems and perils of running a coalition government were highlighted Monday morning by a squabble between the BJP and its Maharashtra allies - the Shiv Sena unit led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's NCP.

Will parties heed the punishment meted out by voters to the politics of "jod-tod" that has marred the Maharashtra landscape for the past two years?

The BJP has won in Uttar Pradesh's Gola Gokrannath, Haryana's Adampur, and is leading in Odisha's Dhamnagar. The party also retained Bihar's Gopalganj assembly seat which falls in the home district of party leader and former Chief Minister Lalu Yadav

The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged victorious in four of the seven assembly seats whose results were declared today. Uddhav Thackeray's faction won its first election after a BJP-backed coup led by Eknath Shinde split Shiv Sena.

Rajya Sabha Polls: NCP Chief Sharad Pawar said he is "not shocked to the results" in Rajya Sabha polls in Maharashtra after the BJP won 3 out of 6 seats. He said his party received 1 extra vote that came from an independent legislator.

With results from the Gadchiroli district announced on Thursday, the BJP maintained its top position in Maharashtra nagar panchayat elections by winning a total of 419 out of 1,791 seats.

Election results for 106 urban local bodies - nagar panchayats, or government bodies for areas with a small population - in Maharashtra are being declared on Wednesday.

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 victory of the BJP in Karnataka is bound to have its impact on Maharashtra, where, too, the state is governed by an unnatural coalition that has been trumped up in violation of the people's mandate.

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...

Days after he resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis today changed his Twitter bio for the second time since the state election results were announced. In the new bio, the former chief minister calls himself "Maharashtra's Sevak".

Maharashtra was placed under President's Rule on Tuesday after a report from Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to the centre that none of the three parties he had invited since Saturday - BJP, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - could produce enough numbers to stake claim to power even 20 days after the October 24 state election results. ...

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Sunday asked Shiv Sena to indicate "willingness and ability" to form government in the state hours after the BJP gave him a negative response on the matter. The Sena called a late-night meeting of the top leaders to discuss the offer. Earlier on Sunday evening, the BJP said it would not stake claim to f...

The core group of the BJP in Maharashtra will meet today to discuss the Governor's invite to form government after it failed to come to an understanding with its cantankerous ally the Shiv Sena. The Shiv Sena has put all its MLAs at a resort at Madh Island in suburban Mumbai. The party led by Uddhav Thackeray says it wants to stop any attempt by th...

The problems and perils of running a coalition government were highlighted Monday morning by a squabble between the BJP and its Maharashtra allies - the Shiv Sena unit led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's NCP.

Will parties heed the punishment meted out by voters to the politics of "jod-tod" that has marred the Maharashtra landscape for the past two years?

The BJP has won in Uttar Pradesh's Gola Gokrannath, Haryana's Adampur, and is leading in Odisha's Dhamnagar. The party also retained Bihar's Gopalganj assembly seat which falls in the home district of party leader and former Chief Minister Lalu Yadav

The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged victorious in four of the seven assembly seats whose results were declared today. Uddhav Thackeray's faction won its first election after a BJP-backed coup led by Eknath Shinde split Shiv Sena.

Rajya Sabha Polls: NCP Chief Sharad Pawar said he is "not shocked to the results" in Rajya Sabha polls in Maharashtra after the BJP won 3 out of 6 seats. He said his party received 1 extra vote that came from an independent legislator.

With results from the Gadchiroli district announced on Thursday, the BJP maintained its top position in Maharashtra nagar panchayat elections by winning a total of 419 out of 1,791 seats.

Election results for 106 urban local bodies - nagar panchayats, or government bodies for areas with a small population - in Maharashtra are being declared on Wednesday.

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 victory of the BJP in Karnataka is bound to have its impact on Maharashtra, where, too, the state is governed by an unnatural coalition that has been trumped up in violation of the people's mandate.

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...

Days after he resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis today changed his Twitter bio for the second time since the state election results were announced. In the new bio, the former chief minister calls himself "Maharashtra's Sevak".

Maharashtra was placed under President's Rule on Tuesday after a report from Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to the centre that none of the three parties he had invited since Saturday - BJP, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - could produce enough numbers to stake claim to power even 20 days after the October 24 state election results. ...

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Sunday asked Shiv Sena to indicate "willingness and ability" to form government in the state hours after the BJP gave him a negative response on the matter. The Sena called a late-night meeting of the top leaders to discuss the offer. Earlier on Sunday evening, the BJP said it would not stake claim to f...

The core group of the BJP in Maharashtra will meet today to discuss the Governor's invite to form government after it failed to come to an understanding with its cantankerous ally the Shiv Sena. The Shiv Sena has put all its MLAs at a resort at Madh Island in suburban Mumbai. The party led by Uddhav Thackeray says it wants to stop any attempt by th...