The Latest Breaking News from Shiv Sena

Mr. Raut alluded to the recent ‘closed-door meeting’ Mr. Narvekar had with Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on May 2.

While maintaining there were no misunderstandings within the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday slammed his allies, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan for their comments against his party.

Uddhav Thackeray on May 6 said that though he suggested Barsu village as alternative site for the proposed multibillion-dollar Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, he clarified that he would move forward only after getting consent from every villager.

Mr. Thackeray is going to visit the village in the Rajapur taluka, more than 400 km from Mumbai, and interact with those who are opposing the government’s plans to provide land for a mega-oil refinery in the area.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Congress said that there was no reason to believe the MVA was in danger, after Sharad Pawar’s shock decision to step down as national president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Sharad Pawar’s decision to step down as NCP chief is a strategic move to assert his authority over his party forever, analysts say, citing the example of Bal Thackeray who once pulled the same move to stem revolt.

How the proposed refinery project is garnering protest due to concerns of environmental pollution and loss of livelihood

A wordy duel has erupted between Union Minister and senior BJP leader Narayan Rane and his political rival Uddhav Thackeray and his Shiv Sena (UBT) faction over the proposed refinery project at Barsu in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district.

Over two months after a journalist was murdered allegedly over a report linked to the project, a proposed petroleum refinery project in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri and the agitation against it is again in the news.