Nistula Hebbar

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is facing his first big electoral test after splitting the Shiv Sena . He speaks to Nistula Hebbar on his government, the National Democratic Alliance, and poll prospects.

The two-year-old Mahayuti government in Maharashtra has done much to restore industry confidence in the commercial city of Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief

The two Shiv Senas, two NCPs, four party symbols, and the pulsating grudge match at the heart of Maharashtra politics has forced political observers to go back to the first principles of political mobilisation

The horizon being gazed at by political parties in Maharashtra is the more local war for the State, which began after the last Assembly polls in 2019, when the then-united Shiv Sena walked out of the Mahayuthi or NDA in the State and formed the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government with the unlikely allies — the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Union Home Minister Amit Shah discusses rise in voting percentage in Kashmir Valley post Article 370 removal in Lok Sabha elections.

According to estimates, Yadavs make up the biggest chunk of voters in Jaunpur at 2.50-2.75 lakh, with Scheduled Castes (SC) the next largest group at around 2.25 lakh votes. Muslims voters stand at 2.15 lakh, upper caste Kshatriyas and Brahmins at around 2.25 lakh, while Mauryas and Patels, basically non-Yadav Other Backward Classes (OBC) number a little over two lakh.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the rise in voting percentage from 14% in the past to 37% on Tuesday in the Kashmir Valley seat of