Amey Tirodkar Special Correspondent

Amey works with Frontline’s Mumbai Bureau.

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis pay tribute to Ahilyabai Holkar on her birth anniversary in Ahmednagar on May 31, 2023

Political implications of Ahmednagar’s renaming as Ahilya Nagar

Will the BJP strategy to appeal to the Dhangar community and solidify the vote base through district renaming work?

Women from Solgaon village protest against the refinery project in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district.

Battleground Barsu: Ecology versus economy conflict continues in Maharashtra

Protests against a refinery in Barsu have pitted the industrial complex against activists and villagers, putting the State government in a tangle.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to his right at a material distribution programme for women (under a welfare scheme) organised by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, in Mumbai on May 13.

Karnataka effect: Maharashtra ruling, opposition alliances swing into action to woo electorate

The State government is giving a major push to awareness of welfare schemes, while the MVA constituents are planning joint rallies in the coming weeks

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis speaking to mediapersons after the Supreme Court verdict on the State’s political crisis, in Mumbai on May 11.

Supreme Court verdict in Maharashtra power tussle comes as relief to Eknath Shinde

Bench raps Governor’s actions, providing comfort to Uddhav Thackeray.

Supriya Sule: “I think we need to take politics and our responsibilities seriously. That is what power has meant to me.”

Supriya Sule: ‘People will decide the NCP’s future’

The Nationalist Congress Party MP focussed on a possible nationwide opposition alliance with a common minimum programme.

The full-page ad in a Marathi newspaper about the Telangana government’s new secretariat named after Dr B.R. Ambedkar.

Eyes on Maharashtra: Telangana CM reaches out to farmers, Dalits to strengthen BRS presence in State

K. Chandrashekar Rao has been promoting farmer-friendly schemes and addressing rallies to win the hearts of rural voters.

Congress MLA Yuri Alemao moving the Bill in the Assembly on March 31.

Goa Assembly unanimously backs Bill to protect widows

Opposition leader Yuri Alemao moves private member’s Bill against widow ill-treatment.

Protest rally against love jehad led by Hindu Sakal Samaj at Shivaji Park, Dadar, on January 29, 2023.

Maharashtra’s polarising ‘love jehad’ rallies

Aimed at garnering support for the BJP in the run-up to crucial elections in 2024, these rallies are gaining ground in Maharashtra.

A crowd of hundreds of thousands of people who had gathered for the event.

Maharashtra government in dock for mismanagement of award ceremony, alleged cover-up of stampede

Fourteen persons died of heatstroke on April 16 while attending a felicitation for veteran social worker Appasaheb Dharmadhikari.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde visiting farms that suffered extensive damage from rain and hail storm, in Nashik district on April 10, 2023.

Unseasonal rain, hailstorms destroy 42,000 hectares of crops in Maharashtra

Horticulture takes big hit; total losses across all crops estimated at Rs.5,000 crore.

Uddhav Thackeray with other MVA leaders at a public rally in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, formerly Aurangabad, on April 2, 2023.

Rally fever grips Maharashtra as major parties roll out campaigns to connect with public

Uddhav Thackeray’s public meetings galvanise MVA, while BJP and CM Shinde hit back with reply rallies.