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Rediff
| 8 months ago
In response to jibe, Sibal sends Aakash tab to Modi Write a comment September 28, 2012 10:34 Jayant Patil to be new Maharashtra FM : Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar is likely to announce today that his nephew Ajit Pawar's resignation...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Businesses in Maharashtra's Baramati town, a stronghold of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), were shut in the morning hours on Wednesday to protest the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. The NCP leader's resignation Tuesday evening...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Ajit Pawar's resignation as the deputy chief minister on Tuesday has dealt a body blow to chief minister Prithviraj Chavan. The onus of saving the Democratic Front government rests on Chavan's shoulders as rivals within the Congress have in the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Ajit Pawar's decision to step down as the state's deputy chief minister in wake of allegations of irregularities in irrigation projects may be a part of pressure tactics aimed at the Congress and his rivals within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
The political turmoil in the state is an outcome of coalition conflict. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and Ajit Pawar, who on Tuesday resigned as the deputy chief minister, have always failed to work as a team. The developments after Pawar stepped...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
A crucial meeting of the NCP Legislature Party will be held here today to discuss the political situation in the aftermath of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's resignation from the Cong-NCP alliance government in Maharashtra...Party sources said...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra deputy chief minister, resigned on Tuesday following allegations of irregularities in clearing irrigation projects in the state. NCP ministers, however, came out in his support, some even offering to resign. At least 20...
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The Economic Times
| 8 months ago
Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has resigned following allegations of a mega irrigation scam when he was the water resource minister in the state...Nationalist Congress Party ministers expressed solidarity with Pawar and submitted their...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
These projects, and many others for which contracts had been awarded in the preceding years, are at the root of the scandal over which Ajit Pawar, then water resources minister, has now resigned as deputy chief minister. The allegations hurled by the...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
September 25, 2012 Media have been targeting him for decisions taken between 2004 and 2009, when he held Irrigation portfolio For a year or so, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has been feeling the heat over alleged irregularities in the...
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The Hindu
| 8 months ago
September 26, 2012 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar, who quit on Tuesday as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has had a controversial tenure. His relationship with the media has been uneasy and there are...
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NewKerala
| 8 months ago
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Tuesday stepped down over an alleged scam in the irrigation department, triggering a crisis in the Congress-NCP coalition government as his's...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
At a hurriedly-convened press conference, Pawar announced he was resigning as minister of finance and planning and power with immediate effect and said he would not reconsider his decision even if the allegations were proven wrong. He has, however,...