Mumbai: A viral social media post featuring a morphed image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a red saree led to a political confrontation in Dombivali on Tuesday. Senior Congress leader Prakash alias ‘Mama’ Pagare shared the edited clip on Facebook, which showed the Prime Minister draped in a saree set to a popular Marathi...
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) staged a joint protest at Sindhu Bridge on Thursday, opposing police barricades that were obstructing traffic and causing inconvenience to residents, traders, and commuters. The protestors demanded the immediate removal or relocation of the barricades, which were subsequently shifted to the side of the...
Mumbai Police have issued a preventive action notice to Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Anand Dubey after a viral video showed him smashing a television and threatening to break TV sets of anyone broadcasting the India-Pakistan Asia Cup match. The Samtanagar Police cited a possible breach of peace and directed Dubey to refrain from making provocative...
Mumbai: The political row over the India vs Pakistan Asia Cup 2025 clash intensified after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut launched a scathing attack on Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Raut’s remarks came days after the deadly Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which claimed 26 lives. Ajit Pawar had earlier urged...
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday strongly condemned the Congress-led Karnataka government for its proposal to rename Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar metro station after St Mary, calling it an “insult to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.” Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recently announced that the government would consider the renaming following a request made during the annual feast...
Mohit Kamboj, the 41-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader once seen as a rising star in Mumbai’s political landscape, has announced his retirement from active politics. Speaking to FPJ, Kamboj clarified that while he continues to remain a member of the BJP, he has deliberately stayed away from active political roles for the past six...
A fresh political controversy has erupted in Maharashtra after a large-scale advertising campaign projected Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as “Devabhau,” sidelining his coalition partners, Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar. Full-page newspaper ads and massive hoardings across Mumbai, highlighting Fadnavis offering flowers to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and performing Ganesh puja on Anant Chaturdashi,...
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar has found himself in the middle of a controversy after a video showing him purportedly rebuking a woman IPS officer went viral on social media. In the clip, Pawar is heard pressuring the officer to stop action against alleged illegal soil excavation in Solapur’s Kurdu village....
Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Galaxy Hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar after his health worsened during a five-day hunger strike in Mumbai. Patil had been fasting to demand quota benefits for the Maratha community. Late Tuesday night, he was rushed to the hospital after showing...
Manoj Jarange Patil, a 43-year-old activist from a small village in Jalna with education only up to the seventh standard, has emerged as a powerful political figure in Maharashtra. Without any formal organizational backing, he successfully mobilized nearly 60,000 people, forcing the Mahayuti government led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis—and even Mumbai, the country’s financial...