Maharashtra

Addressing him as 'Respected Shri Amitbhai ji' in the two-page letter in Hindi dated December 6, the Governor has drawn attention to his recent speech, and contended that certain small portions from that address were separated to criticise him. Koshyari said he had cited instances of Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose who were inspiring icons when "we were students", and the modern day students also want to know the current era personalities who could be their 'ideals'.

"During the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, there was no such incident of violence against Bihari people. We are living together and respecting each other," Aditya Thackeray said after meeting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav in Patna on Wednesday.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shiv Sena (UBT), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena staged full-throated demonstrations in different parts of the state while the Congress has demanded Koshyari's recall though the ruling alliance Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena raised objections and the Bharatiya Janata Party defended him.

In her first reaction to the "abuse" - which forced even the ruling Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena (BSS) to apologise - Sule on Tuesday said that such language was not expected from someone who is in power and it is against Maharashtra's culture and traditions of respect to women.

Rattled by the possible fallout of the agitation, with Shiv Sena-UBT, Congress leaders as also Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) slamming the government, Shinde is understood to have called up Sattar and given him an earful. Political sources said that the CM even ordered Sattar to call up and personally apologise to Sule and end the matter, as some BJP leaders also commented on the issue.

The BJY began from Tamil Nadu, and moved through Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, before entering the central Indian phase from Maharashtra, with a massive crowd expected to join Gandhi. After taking a night's rest at a local mill ground in Deglur town, Gandhi will start the 14-day long state leg on Tuesday morning which would take him through six Lok Sabha and 15 Assembly constituencies spanning 381 kms in five districts of Marathwada-Vidarbha regions.

The conquest is the first notched by the party after it got a new name Shiv Sena- Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and a new symbol of 'Flaming Torch' a couple of months ago, giving a huge psychological boost to the party which suffered a devastating split in June.

The spat between independent legislators Bachhu Kadu, who is founder of the Prahar Janshakti Party and Ravi Rana of the Yuva Swabhiman Party - both hailing from Amravati - came to a point where the former threatened to withdraw support to the Shinde regime if the latter did not withdraw certain allegations, prompting the Shinde-Fadnavis duo to mediate.

State Congress Working President M. Arif Naseem Khan has written a letter to the President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging them to confer the honour on Mulayam Singh, who passed away on October 10, aged 83.

The elections were held to 1,079 of the total 1,165 Gram Panchayats (DPs) where the Maha Vikas Aghadi has claimed to have trumped the ruling BJP-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena combine, based on the purported political affiliations of the winning candidates.