Sharad Pawar is wont to describe the Congress party thus: it is like a zamindar of yore. When he used to sit on his terrace with a hookah he had the satisfaction of knowing that all that met his eye and far beyond belonged to him. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Anand Paranjpe, Congress, hindustan times, Lok Sabha, Maharashtra Assembly, Mamata Banerjee, Nationalist Congress Party, news, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
It would have happened sooner rather than later. But Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party was prepared for this one. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress-NCP government, Dilip Deshmukh, Eknath Khadse, Gopinath Munde, Jayant Patil, Maharashtra Assembly, Nationalist Congress Party, Nitin Gadkari, Praful Patel, R R Patil, Shahid Balwa, Sharad Pawar, Shashank Manohar, Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, Vilasrao Deshmukh