New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): Bollywood actor Genelia Deshmukh, on Sunday, shared a heartfelt note to mark her father-in-law Vilasrao Deshmukh's 10th death anniversary.

Mumbai (Maharashtra), March 21 (ANI): Actor Riteish Deshmukh penned a heartfelt birthday wish for his brother Amit Deshmukh to mark his special day.

Mumbai Sep 26 PTI Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday took a swipe at the BJP claiming it was providing entertainment to people and questioned the need for opening cinema halls and drama auditoriums during the COVID-19 pandemic Notably Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said cinema halls and drama theatres in the state will be permitted to operate from October 22 on the condition that they follow all the protocols required to prevent the spread of coronavirus In his weekly column Rokhthok in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana Raut who is the executive editor of the Marathi daily said the opposition party BJP in Maharashtra has crossed all limits Every day BJP leader Kirit Somaiya levels new allegations against different state ministers and visits their constituencies I feel the state government shouldnt stop his tours His allegations are like soap bubbles Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil has a different style he quipped Even though the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions continue political entertainment programmes are on in the country In all there is fun everywherethere is mystery and comedy in the entertainment that is being provided by the opposition party Is there a need to open cinema halls and drama auditoriums he wondered Raut whose party shares power with the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra claimed that the state BJP unit has made a mockery of central probe agencies He said Maharashtra had a rich tradition of illustrious opposition leaders like Madhu Dandavate Madhu Limaye George Fernandes and Hiren Mukherjee who launched fierce agitations against the then governments and exposed corruption Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi also bore the brunt he said In Maharashtra leaders like Datta Patil Mrunal Gore Keshavrao Dhondge Krushnarao Dhulap and Gopinath Munde kept various state governments on tenterhooks but there was no viciousness as in the present times the Shiv Senas chief spokesperson said Chief ministers like Shivajirao Nilangekar A R Antulay and Vilasrao Deshmukh had to quit because of the opposition attack he noted Today the opposition is a just a comedy show It is doing nothing but threatening of ED inquiries and indulging in character assassination he claimed PTI MR GK GK

New Delhi Sep 20 PTI The BJP alleged on Monday that the Congress has made Charanjit Singh Channi Punjab chief minister for a few months merely to grab Dalit votes as part of its conspiracy and cited previous instances of the party giving the key position to a leader from the community only for a short tenure Hitting out at the Congress BJP general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam who is the partys in-charge for the state noted the reported statement of Harish Rawat that the Congress will fight the assembly elections under its state chief Navjot Singh Sidhus leadership Rawat is the Congress pointsman for handling its Punjab affairs This is an old habit of the Congress It believes that it can capture Dalit vote bank by making a Dalit chief minister for a few months A conspiracy is being hatched in Punjab to grab Dalit vote bank Gautam said He noted that the Congress had made Dalit leader Sushil Kumar Shinde Maharashtra chief minister in 2003 but replaced him with Vilasrao Deshmukh when it won the 2004 assembly election Similarly he said the Congress had made Jagannath Pahadia Rajasthans chief minister in 1980 but removed him in over a year Gautam also a Dalit leader alleged that the Congress has resorted to this tactic often and claimed that it often used former deputy prime minister Jagjivan Ram to get the votes of the community but insulted him and even removed him from the party when it came to giving him his due The Congress also never gave B R Ambedkar Bharat Ratna or made memorial in his name or did anything to preserve his memory the BJP leader claimed The Congress has humiliated Dalits innumerable times he allegedChanni 58 was on Monday sworn in as chief minister of Punjab making him the first Dalit to hold the top post in the stateThe state will go to the polls early next year PTI KR KJ

New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): The politics over Dalit votes has grown intense in poll-bound Punjab with Bharatiya Janata Party sharpening its attack on Congress for cheating the community and insulting them by using it only as a vote bank.

NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal was acquitted by a special court on Thursday in the Maharashtra Sadan case which was probed by the state Anti-Corruption Bureau. The case relates to a 2005-2006 when the NCP leader as the PWD minister allegedly gave contract for the construction of Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi to be built on a […]