Hindustan Times
When Maharashtra’s Home Minister R R Patil first mooted the transfer of Bombay’s police commissioner Arup Patnaik a day after some Muslim groups ran riot at the Azad Maidan on August 11, 2012, I am told, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told him, “If Patnaik goes, so do you”. Read more
(11 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Arup Patnaik, Azad Maidan, bjp, Gopinath Munde, hindustan times, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, MNS, Mulayam Singh, mumbai, Mumbai violence, NCP, Prithviraj Chavan, R R Patil, Raj Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
When Sharad Pawar split the Congress in 1999, he had hoped that the whole of the party will rally behind him and that Sonia Gandhi will be just left with herself and a handful of her close supporters. Read more
(13 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, July 20, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Congress, hindustan times, Maharashtra, NCP, news, Prithviraj Chavan, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sonia Gandhi, Sujata Anandan, UPA, Vilasrao Deshmukh
In the 1980s, Chhagan Bhujbal, the then Shiv Sena’s lone MLA in Maharashtra, coined a famous term that has stuck in the minds of many people of that time: ‘bhukhandache Shirkhand’. In other words, he was accusing then chief minister Sharad Pawar of licking up a lot of land (more than 200 plots in Bombay, in fact) that had been de-reserved by him for unknown reasons. Read more
(25 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, CAG report, chief minister Sharad Pawar, Congress, Gopinath Munde, hindustan times, hiv Sena, Kripashankar Singh, NCP, news, Nitin Gadkari, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Singly political, Sonia Gandhi, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
A friend posted a query on my Facebook account a couple of days ago: what deal did the Shiv Sena offer the BJP to agree not to press for the post of Mayor of Bombay? Read more
(12 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged bjp, hhindustan times, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mayor of Bombay, MNS, NCP, Nitin Gadkari, Pune Municipal Corporation, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan
If this had been the Youth Congress or even the Yuva Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bal Thackeray would have gone red in the face, spouted some purple prose and cried blue murder. Read more
(11 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Aditya Thackeray, Bal Thankeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, hindustan times, NCP, news, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Yuva Morcha
Speaking to a man in the know, the other week, I was rather amused to hear him describe the situation in the Nationalist Congress Party rather succinctly. Read more
(8 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, July 29, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Jayant Patil, Maharahstra, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, MNS, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, Nitin Gadkari, Prithviraj Chavan, Raj Thackeray, RR Patil, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Sujata Anandan, Supriya Sule, Uddhav Thackeray
Poor RR Patil. Apart from the fact that he has not been having a good week, what with the July 13 serial blasts in Bombay and chief minister Prithviraj Chavan pointing out that decisions regarding law and order are delayed, he is under attack from even his own party men. Read more
(12 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, bjp, Chidambaram, Congress, finance minister, home minister, Jayant Patil, Maharashtra, maharashtra chief minister, Maharashtra home minister, mumbai, Mumbai blasts, NCP, Pranab Mukherjee, prithiviraj chavan, Raj Thackeray, RR Patil, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Sujata Anandan, Uddhav Thackeray
Why am I not so impressed with the hoopla surrounding Anna Hazare and his fast unto death at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi? Read more
(33 votes, average: 2.64 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 8, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Bal Thackeray, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Jantar Mantar, Lokpal bill, Maharashtra, NCP, New Delhi, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Smita Prakash, Uma Bharti
I did not think this would happen in my part of the world but, after the rapist politicians of Uttar Pradesh, a home-grown one seems to have arisen in Maharashtra. Read more
(15 votes, average: 4.07 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Chief Minister, Dilip Wagh, hindustan times, Home Minister R R Patil, Maratha warlord, Mayawati, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, news, Padamsinh Patil, Prithviraj Chavan, rapist, Sharad Pawar, UP Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh
There was a particularly bounteously placed functionary in the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra, today highly placed in New Delhi, who once called in a carpenter to make a concealed safe within a bedroom wall. Read more
(14 votes, average: 3.07 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, bombay high court, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Gujarat riots, Joint Parliamentary Committee, JPC, kapil sibal, Leader of Opposition, minister of state for urban development, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Raj Purohit, Shiv Sena, Sushma Swaraj, Union Finance Minister, Union Rural Development Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh
