Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana attacked batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar once again, saying he plays for the Indian cricket board, not Maharashtra.In an article published in party mouthpiece Saamna, Sanjay Raut, Shivsena MP said, "Sachin may be a big cricketer, but he is not bigger than Maharashtra. Sachin has not sacrificed his life for the country like Lokmanya Tilak, Bhagat Singh and Rajguru.The Sena...
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Opposition Shiv Sena-BJPhas proposed the name of BJP leader Eknath Khadse as the new Leader ofOpposition in the Maharashtra assembly.The Opposition submitted ajoint letter, signed by chief whip of BJP Legislature party Girish Bapat andSena leader in the lower House Subhash Desai, to protem Speaker GanpatraoDeshmukh, BJP general secretary and MLC Vinod Tawde said.The Leaderof Opposition post will be...
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a tactical move, the ShivSena mouthpiece Saamna once again hit out at cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar inits Sunday edition, claiming that Sachin plays only for the Indian cricket boardand not for Maharashtra.Smarting under all-round condemnation frompolitical parties of all hues for its attack on the media, the Shiv Sena'srenewed dig at Sachin is seen as an attempt to divert attention from its assaulton...
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a tactical move, the ShivSena mouthpiece Saamna once again hit out at cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar inits Sunday edition, claiming that Sachin plays only for the Indian cricket boardand not for Maharashtra.Smarting under all-round condemnation frompolitical parties of all hues for its attack on the media, the Shiv Sena’srenewed dig at Sachin is seen as an attempt to divert attention from its assaulton...
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Bahujan Samaj Party led byMayawati failed to click once again in Maharashtra. Though it contested from 281constituencies in the state, it could not open its account. But this was more onan expected lines because of the cobbling of a unity among 14 factions of theRepublican Party of India under leadership of Ramdas Athavale which split theDalit votes."It was a well-orchestrated move of the Congress-NCP.They...
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MUMBAI:Saamna's Saturday leader comment slamming Marathis for bringing about the ShivSena's debacle in the assembly elections has sent Sainiks into a tizzy. "Not theoutsiders, but our own people have stabbed the Sena in the back,'' said Saamna.Bal Thackeray is the editor of the party's mouthpiece.Sainiks arebaffled with the Sena supremo's acerbic attack on Marathis. "We don't know ifthe editorial has...
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CHANDIGARH: Police have turnedMohali’s Punjab Cricket Association Stadium into a virtual fortress as thefourth one-day international cricket match of the ongoing series is to be playedthere on November 2. Large number of police personnel have been deployed at thearena and sharp shooters have also been positioned in its surrounding areas.Quick reaction teams have been formed to deal with anyemergencies.Enhanced...
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Nationalist Congress Partypresident Sharad Pawar’s 50-year-old nephew Ajit Pawar, popularly known as‘Dada’ in Maharashtra political circles, rocked his party when therewere reports that he was set to raise a banner of revolt against the leadershipbecause he didn’t get the deputy chief minister’s post. A section ofNCP and Congress leaders even feared that he would join hands with the ShivSena-BJP combine...
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ongoing rivalry between the ShivSena and the NCP unit of Mumbra came to a flash point on Sunday evening afterattack on a Sena leader at Mumbra. The police however intervened in time toavert any major serious incident and claimed that the incident had nothing to dowith politics. Four persons involved in the attack have been arrested so far.The incident took place at around 5 pm in a narrow bye lane...
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MUMBAI/NEWDELHI: Blasting cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar for his comments on Mumbai, ShivSena chief Bal Thackeray also reminded him of the Samyukta Maharashtra agitationfor the inclusion of Mumbai in the linguistic Marathi state.Thestir, which took place in the 1950s, had claimed 105 Marathis who fell to thebullets of the then Morarji Desai state government.Alarmed by theSena leader's warning, BCCI...
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