The BJP’s Gopinath Munde and Nitin Gadkari have almost always never agreed on anything. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged bjp, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Maharashtra, Marathwada, Nationalist Congress Party, New Delhi, Nitin Gadkari, Pramod Mahajan, Rajiv Gandhi, Sadhvi Rithambara, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vidarbha
At the start of his first term in the job, Sharad Pawar was billed as the greatest agriculture minister India had ever had. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 24, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Filed under India · Tagged agriculture minister, American continent, Congress, debt crisis, Europe, exports, food grains, Indian poultry, Maharashtra, NCP, onion prices, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sharad Pawar, tomatoes, Vidarbha
Sonia Gandhi’s first ever full-blown political rally was in Maharashtra – in the tribal district of Nandurbar. Sharad Pawar was astonished at the numbers the adivasis turned up in to hear Mrs Indira Gandhi’s daughter-in-law. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Akola, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bal Thackeray, bjp, Congressmen, Indira Gandhi, Lok Sabha, Maharashtra, Nandurbar, political rally, Pramod Mahajan, Sharad Pawar, Sitaram Kesri, Sonia Gandhi, Vidarbha
My passport lists my place of birth as Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh. When it comes up for renewal I don’t know if I will feel comfortable calling the state where I was born `Chhatisgarh’. For my mother is not Chhatisgarhi by even a long shot; she is from Madhya Pradesh.
I have cousins who `lived’ in Uttar Pradesh. But now they are Uttaranchalis, resident in its capital of Dehradun for years, long before Uttaranchal came into existence. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bilaspur, Chhatisgarh, District Magistrate of Nagpur, Madhya Pradesh, Maharasht, Nagpur University, passport, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Vidarbha, VP Naik