The Latest Breaking News from Ajit Pawar

The national context is important because the politics of Maharashtra, like the politics of Assam, deeply intersects with the slow-moving terrain of national politics

In a major Cabinet reshuffle led by the Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra, the newly appointed Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has been entrusted with the finance and planning ministries Another minister, Chhagan Bhujbal has been allotted the food and civil supplies ministry. Read further on Dynamite News:

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said the party will give a befitting response to the “continuous attacks” on the mandate and “political fraud” by the BJP in Maharashtra. He also said the party leaders and workers will help the people of the state to get back their…

Uddhav Thackeray reminded the BJP that it was the Shiv Sena who helped build their party on its shoulders when the latter “was nothing”. Read more on The Hindu

Rebel NCP Minister Chhagan Bhujbal attributed Sharad Pawar’s frequent flip-flops in his political dealings as the reason for finally leaving the NCP patriarch’s side. Read more on The Hindu

The Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust (Hind Swaraj Sangh) will confer the Lokmanya Tilak National Award upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 1, the 103rd death anniversary of Lokmanya Tilak

The saga of rival factions making claims on the ‘real’ Nationalist Congress Party is still in flux. Even if the Ajit Pawar group has become a part of the state government in Maharashtra, it looks like there is more to come within the party and the governing alliance.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray on July 9 said had the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) honoured the “decision” taken before the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly election on sharing of the chief ministerial post, the BJP workers would not have been required to carry “carpets” of other parties now.

He pointed out that former Union Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel, a colleague of Mr. Sharad Pawar in Delhi, Mr. Ajit Pawar, his nephew, and Dilip Walse-Patil, a close aide, were all connected to the internal discord.