Tag: Shiv Sena

Uddhav Thackeray
Ram temple issue has become another 'jumla' for BJP: Sena

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena Thursday attacked senior ally BJP over the Ayodhya issue, saying the construction of Ram temple at the disputed site has become another ‘jumla’ (rhetoric) for the party and it would lead to their ouster from power. The party said the BJP has not woken up despite its recent electoral defeats in […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Shiv sena
Sena lashes out at Modi, says lack of political will delaying Ram Temple

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena Monday charged that “lack of political will” was delaying construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should stop doing “political nautanki” (drama) over the issue while keeping a gun on shoulders of the Congress. Taking potshots at Modi for his “56-inch chest” remark made during […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Nawazuddin-Siddiqui
Nawazuddin starts prep work for 'Thackeray'

Mumbai: Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has started preparing for his role as Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray in the “Thackeray” biopic. The 43-year-old actor, who will play the title character in the film penned by Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, today met the former politician’s son Uddhav Thackeray and grandson Aditya Thackeray. “The prep work starts […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
BJP, not Shiv Sena, known for poaching: Pawar

Mumbai: Former union minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar today rejected suggestions that the Shiv Sena had poached MNS corporators and maintained that it is the BJP which engages in politics of engineering defections. Yesterday, six of the seven corporators of the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) joined the Shiv Sena, giving the Uddhav Thackeray-led […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
fuel price rise
Excise duty cut on fuel is a drop in the ocean: Sena

Mumbai: The government’s move to cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre is like a drop in the ocean as it comes after months of rising fuel prices, the Shiv Sena today said. The Sena used a popular idiom — “oont ke muh me jeera” (a small cumin seed in […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Amit Saha
BJP yet to decide on Prez candidate, says Shah

New Delhi: The BJP is yet to take a decision on its candidate for the upcoming Presidential poll, even as the party virtually rejected Shiv Sena’s proposal for RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to be the ruling combine’s nominee. Replying to a question on the BJP-led NDA’s candidate for the Presidential polls in July as the […]

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
Engineering students
25 engineering students found writing exam paper in politicos house

Aurangabad: The city Crime Branch today arrested 25 engineering students, including three women, who were found writing exam paper in the house of a Shiv Sena corporator. All the students belonged to the same institute in the city and are studying in the third year. They were writing exam paper which was previously conducted on […]

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
Sena attacks PM, says AAP reduced BJP to "dirt" in Delhi polls

Shiv Sena today added insult to BJP's injury after its humiliation in Delhi polls, saying the "broom-wielding" AAP reduced it to "dirt" and virtually demanded that prime minister Narendra Modi accept the blame for it

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
2014 saw return of BJP-Sena regime in Maharashtra after 15 yrs

The return of a BJP-Sena regime after a love-hate war and gap of 15 years, demise of senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde, collapse of Congress-NCP alliance and rising cases of farmers' suicides dominated Maharashtra's political landscape in 2014

  • Sunday, 27 June 2021
Shiv Sena to join Maharastra govt tomorrow

Ending its acrimonious split with BJP, Shiv Sena will join the Maharashtra government tomorrow with 12 of its nominees, including five of cabinet rank, set to be inducted into the ministry

  • Sunday, 27 June 2021
Shiv Sena hails RSS chief for Mother Teresa remarks

The Shiv Sena has patted Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat for his remarks on Nobel laureate Mother Teresa terming them as a "national service" here today

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
BJP
BJP feels the pinch as Shiv Sena sharpens attack

As the second alliance government of the BJP-Shiv Sena combine, formed in Maharashtra after a brief period of bickering between the partners of 25 years, completes 75 days in power Friday, it is clear that the Shiv Sena has sharpened its attack on the BJP

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
Modi-and-Gandhis
Rahul, Priyanka no match to Modi's leadership: Sena

Mumbai: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s “development book” has improved much since 2014 and he has his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s support, but they cannot be compared with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, the Shiv Sena said on Wednesday. The remarks by the Uddhav Thackeray-led party came two days after it sealed a pre-poll alliance with […]

  • Tuesday, 04 May 2021
Sonia-and-bjp
BJP fields former Congressman against Sonia Gandhi

New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday announced its candidates against UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi while dropping two sitting MPs, Kirit Somaiya from Mumbai North East and Ram Charitra Nishad from Machhlishahr in Uttar Pradesh. The party has pitted former Congress leader Dinesh Pratap Singh, who joined the BJP a year ago, against Sonia Gandhi in […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
Burka
Shiv Sena calls for ban on burqa in public places

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday called for a ban on the use of burqa by women of a particular community as it threw its weight behind a similar plan being mulled by the Sri Lankan government in the wake of the Easter terror strikes which claimed over 250 lives. “This restriction has been recommended as […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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