A decision on the Maharashtra leadership issue is likely by Wednesday.The discussions on the matter would gain momentum only after Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukhin arrives in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday appeared emerging as the frontrunner to succeed Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh who has offered to resign in the aftermath of terror attacks in Mumbai.
"I offered to resign at the CWC meeting (on Saturday) if any responsibility lies on the Chief Minister. Whatever decision the high command and my leader takes, I will abide by it," 63-year-old Deshmukh told a news conference in Mumbai.- Speculation raged over the fate of Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks after the exit of Shivraj Patil as Union Home Minister.
- Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today termed as "very grave" the situation in Mumbai arising out of Wednesday night's terror attacks across the city that left 80 people, including 11 policemen, dead.
The Democratic Front government in Maharashtra on Monday asked industries in the state to provide between 50 to 80 percent jobs in various categories to locals.- Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Tuesday that the government would ask Railways to hold recruitment exams in Marathi.
Apparently concerned over the situation in Maharashtra where north Indians have been targeted, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight spoke to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and asked him to ensure safety of all sections of the society.- Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said Mumbai police would carry out an internal inquiry into the shootout incident in which a Bihari youth perished to ascertain whether his killing could have been avoided.
- Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said his government is responsibile for failure in preventing attacks by MNS on north Indian candidates at Railways examination centres in Mumbai.
- In the wake of attacks on north Indian candidates appearing in the railway recruitment exam in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Sunday said his government will not tolerate the 'gundagiri' of MNS.
- Terming the recent terror attacks and communal clashes in Maharashtra as "aberrations", Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday assured the National Integration Council that the state government will make every attempt to maintain communal harmony and peace.
A day after threatening to quit the party over his differences with Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane arrived in New Delhi to meet the Congress leaders.
The Shiv Sena has launched an offensive against Revenue Minister Narayan Rane, demanding his expulsion from the Vilasrao Deshmukh cabinet, after the High Court passed strictures against him in a land deal.
A high level delegation led by Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal will visit Mumbai on Tuesday to meet the members of the family of Balkar Singh, who was killed in the incident of firing allegedly by private security guards of Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh.
- Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane on Friday launched a fresh tirade against Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, saying "90 per cent of party legislators were not happy with Deshmukh's leadership".
Infighting in Maharashtra unit of Congress took a violent turn in front of party chief Sonia Gandhi as supporters of Revenue Minister Narayan Rane, demanding change of leadership clashed with followers of Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh at a party rally in Mumbai.- Supporters of Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane on Thursday evening burnt copies of Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna in Thane, protesting an article on the Congress leader.
- Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Friday scotched speculation about any threat to his position after a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Hinting that MNS Chief Raj Thackeray, who had fired a fresh salvo against north Indians on Saturday, may escape action, the Mumbai Police on Monday said that it was "difficult to find an explicit threat or provocation" in the text of his speech.
The Centre is trying to cover 90 per cent workers from the unorganised sector under various medical schemes, Union Minister of State for Labour Oscar Fernandes said on Monday.
Despite the Central Government's unprecedented Rs 600 billion loan waiver, farm suicides continue unabated in Vidarbha with as many as 20 of them reported from different districts of the region in last three days.- After a day of contradictory statements and confusion on the issue, the Congress on Wednesday said no panel has been formed to review the performance of Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is being reviewed by the Congress leadership, a move the party sought to downplay as a "periodical in-house exercise."
Two surrendered Maoists in Maharashtra decamped with a couple of AK-47 guns and ammunitions from a heavily guarded police sub-divisional office, police sources said on Sunday.
