Ajit Pawar

The developments that led to Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar taking oath as chief minister and deputy CM on November 23, 2019, are once again in focus after Fadnavis claimed that NCP supremo Sharad Pawar was in the loop all through.

Pawar also said the Opposition has unanimously decided to boycott the customary tea party to be hosted by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde later in the day.

The MVA has planned a mega protest march from Richardson and Crudass near JJ Hospital, which will culminate in a rally at Azad Maidan in the Fort area of South Mumbai, where all the senior MVA leaders including Uddhav Thackeray, will address the crowd

Speaking to reporters at the airport here, the Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly said in the state police department is a very able force in such situations.

Leaders and ministers of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government have been curiously analysing his role in the political mess that spilled over Maharashtra soon after the cross-voting in the Legislative Council elections.

Ajit Pawar, the deputy chief minister, said on Monday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus amid the ongoing political turmoil in Maharashtra. I performed a coronavirus test, and the results are positive.

"Load shedding is going on in the state. A meeting was held on this issue by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. I will take a review of the power department every week on the issue of load shedding and the cabinet has given its approval to check whether there is any availability of power in the country,” Ajit Pawar said.

Ajit Pawar said that Maharashtra has ensured communal harmony for years, but "leaders of some parties" have of late been talking about installing loudspeakers "here and there".

Four out of six patients from Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial township and a patient from Pune city have tested negative for the viral infection, Ajit Pawar told reporters after a weekly review meeting on the COVID-19 situation in the district.

Speaking after paying tribute to legendary social reformer Babasaheb Ambedkar at Chaityabhoomi in Dadar here, he said information available showed that those who had taken both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had also got infected with the Omicron variant.

An Income Tax source confirmed that their benami properties division has issued the provisional attachment orders under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act of 1988, regarding various properties linked to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader’s family members, including his son Parth Pawar.

Speaking to reporters, Ajit Pawar said the crop and other losses may go up to Rs 4,000 crore in the Marathwada region alone.

Queried on the IT raids on firms linked to the kin of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and some real estate companies in Pune on Thursday, Fadnavis said the action was not against any one family but against directors of sugar factories.

He said GVK Group, a leading corporate entity that is constructing the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), is financially sound.

The state government is taking efforts to get maximum number of vaccine doses for citizens, Pawar said, after holding a meeting to review the COVID-19 situation in Pune district.

Under the project, there will be state-of-the-art control rooms at all 45 police commissionerates and district police offices across the state.

Asked about the tardy pace of vaccination in Pune district, Pawar said the pace had not slowed down but it depends on the availability of the vaccines and it is the Union government which supplies them.

Ajit Pawar was talking to reporters here after holding a meeting with officials to review the coronavirus situation in Pune district.

The fire broke out at SVS Aqua Technologies, which manufactures chlorine dioxide among other chemicals and is located in the Pirangut MIDC area of Mulshi tehsil on the outskirts of Pune city.

Pawar was speaking to reporters after holding a meeting with senior officials to review the COVID-19 situation in Pune.