Sanjay Raut

Sanjay Raut's comments have come amid Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange's hunger strike to push for his demand for a 10 per cent quota for Marathas under the OBC category

"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.

In Delhi, Shinde washed the feet of Guru Amit Shah and received his blessings! Thereafter: Both discussed how to break the Marathi unity that took place in Mumbai, says Shiv Sena (UBT) leader.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut made it clear that their fight was only against the imposition of Hindi in primary classes and not its usage in Maharashtra.

Sanjay Raut's remarks came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a five-nation tour on Wednesday.

Even as leaders of the Uddhav Thackeray-headed Shiv Sena (UBT) are sending feelers to Raj Thackeray, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president recently met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at a hotel in Mumbai, triggering speculation about his next political move.

Sanjay Raut accused PM Modi and HM Shah of lying in Parliament that terrorism is ending after demonetisation and the abrogation of Article 370.

At his Gudi Padwa rally on March 30, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief had reiterated his party’s stand of making Marathi mandatory for official purposes, warning that those who do not speak the language deliberately would be “slapped”

The Shiv Sena (UBT) is rallying behind Aaditya Thackeray, questioning the timing of the probe demand and stressing that it was an attempt to shift focus from the Nagpur riots earlier this week.

Sanjay Raut said that the violence in Nagpur was an intelligence failure that directly implicates the Home department that CM Devendra Fadnavis heads and demanded that he step down from the position.

Sanjay Raut's remarks came a day after he cited the lack of opportunities for workers of respective parties in an alliance and the right to organisational growth as the major considerations for contesting solo.

The BJP wanted to form an alliance with the MNS before the assembly elections, but its ally Eknath Shinde, head of the rival Shiv Sena and then Maharashtra chief minister, opposed the idea, Raut claimed.

"The BJP is in alliance with Nitish Kumar in Bihar. It has started the work of poaching 10 JD(U) MPs. So Nitish Kumar is feeling uneasy. I have doubts if he will stay in the NDA," Raut said.

Raut said party workers were insisting the organisation go solo in the local body polls, as there were more aspirants than for the Lok Sabha or state assembly polls

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.

Raut expressed confidence that the MVA would win 160 seats in the elections.

The junior doctors were brought to the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar from the Tridhara Sammilani Puja at Deshapriya Park

Raut has been booked under sections 353 (2) (circulating statements containing false information) and 356 (2) (Defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS).

A day after the BJP won a third consecutive term in Haryana, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut hinted that the poll outcome could have been different had the Rahul Gandhi-led party accommodated its allies and cobbled up an alliance

The metropolitan magistrate (Sewree court) convicted the Rajya Sabha member under Indian Penal Code Section 500 (punishment for defamation) and also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him