Accusing the BJP of corruption, Thackeray said, after winning the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls, his party will come out with a White Paper on the alleged irregularities in the civic body.
"The Thackeray brothers (Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray) will contest the municipal corporation elections in Mumbai, Thane, Nashik and Kalyan-Dombivali together and win," said Sanjay Raut.
The civic body warned of action under the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act, 1949, if any animal is slaughtered or meat is sold during the specified period.
The event, dubbed the "Marathi Victory Rally", was held to celebrate the Maharashtra government's rollback of two controversial government resolutions (GRs) that would have introduced Hindi as a third compulsory language in schools from Class 1 to 5.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday claimed that 39 lakh voters were added in Maharashtra in just five months after the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a joint press conference with NCP-SP MP Supriya Sule and Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut in Delhi, Gandhi claimed that there are more voters in Maharashtra than total adult population of state.
Speaking on the occasion of the late leader's 99th birth anniversary, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said the BJP-led government has in the last ten years conferred the honour on some persons who did not deserve it.
A Shiv Sena (UBT) MP said parties with two, seven, and eight members have been included in the proposed joint committee of Parliament on the two “One Nation One Election” bills but not his.
The protest was staged near the Tawi bridge in front of the statue of the last Dogra ruler, Maharaja Hari Singh, with participants holding placards that read, “Stop step-motherly treatment to Jammu and Kashmir” and “PM fulfill your promise – restore statehood.” Protesters were seen wearing black bands on their heads in denunciation of the BJP-led central government.
Addressing a news conference, Thackeray demanded that Shinde as well as Deepak Kesarkar and Mangal Prabhat Lodha, who were the guardian ministers of Mumbai city and Mumbai suburbs, respectively, be kept out of the new government as the road contracts were awarded during their tenure as ministers.
Sanjay Raut indicated that Shiv Sena (UBT) was open to discuss if someone outside the Congress should lead the Opposition's INDIA bloc. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is at present the chairman of the Opposition grouping.
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Referring to the GIFT City in Gandhinagar, he said a financial centre, which he claimed was moved to Gujarat, will be built in Maharashtra, enabling employment opportunities in the state.
Kirtikar, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena's nominee from the Mumbai Northwest Lok Sabha constituency, appeared before the agency at its office in south Mumbai at around 11.30 am, an official said.
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A complaint in this regard was filed by a functionary of the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, he said.
Waikar arrived at the Central agency's south Mumbai office at noon and left at 9pm, he said.
He also sought to know if the 'wagh nakh' (tiger claw-shaped weapon) being brought to Maharashtra from a museum in United Kingdom would stay here permanently or was it on loan and whether it belonged to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj or was it from the era of the legendary warrior king.
Talking to reporters in Nanded, Raut said the Shiv Sena (undivided) won 18 out of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra and one in Daman and Diu in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The remarks were made by Raut, a Rajya Sabha member and Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson, on May 12, a day after the Supreme Court pronounced its verdict on the Shiv Sena-centric political imbroglio in Maharashtra.
Raut's statement comes a day after Pawar, during an interview with a media house in Pune, responded to a query on his chief ministerial ambitions by saying "yes, I would 100 per cent like to be (CM)".
Five Army personnel were killed on Thursday after their vehicle caught fire following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch.
The MVA, formed after the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections when Uddhav Thackeray fell out with old ally BJP, comprises the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), NCP, and Congress.
The Sena (UBT) said the country is witnessing "unprecedented chaos" under the Modi government.