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Shiv Sena Sainik Marshal John Parkhe with Balasaheb Thackeray It was around 1975 that slogans like Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji were heard in our house in Shrirampur. Influenced by one of his school teachers, Marshal, my elder brother, had started playing Lazim with and Dhol Tasha and this had introduced him to Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. I was then still studying in a secondary school. I watched Marshal leaving house early morning to sweat it out at the local municipal council’s gymnasium. There, wearing a Langot, he wrestled with others on the red soil, climbed and did many startling stunts on the Mallakhamb. After coming home, he ate the Chana dal which was soaked in water the previous night. This was all the luxury diet and nutrients he could afford after working it out hard at the gym in the morning and the lazim playing with his friends on the grounds in the evening. In June 1976, I had left my family almost for good to join the Jesuits, to be a religious priest. A couple of...

गेल्या पाच दशकांतील सार्वत्रिक निवडणुकांच्या काही आठवणी  पडघम  - देशकारण  कामिल पारखे इंदिरा गांधी, राजीव गांधी, पी. व्ही. नरसिंहराव, अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी, बाळासाहेब ठाकरे, शरद पवार, काँग्रेस आणि भाजप Sat , 06 April 2019 पडघम देशकारण लोकशाही निवडणुका इंदिरा गांधी राजीव गांधी पी. व्ही. नरसिंहराव अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी बाळासाहेब ठाकरे शरद पवार Sharad Pawar देशातील सार्वत्रिक निवडणुकांचा मी सर्वप्रथम अनुभव घेतला तो बांगलादेश मुक्तीनंतर पंतप्रधान इंदिरा गांधींनी १९७१ साली निवडणुका लढवल्या तेव्हा. कोपरगाव लोकसभा मतदारसंघात डाव्या पक्षाच्या पी. बी. कडू यांच्याविरोधात काँग्रेसतर्फे एकनाथ विठठलराव विखे उभे होते. अहमदनगर जिल्हा त्या काळात डाव्यांचा बालेकिल्ला होता. सुरुवातीला नवखे उमेदवार असलेल्या विखेंनी अखेरीस निवडणुकीत बाजी मारली. याचे कारण इंदिरांच्या नेतृत्वाखाली गाय-वासरू चिन्ह असलेल्या नवकाँग्रेस पक्षानं संपूर्ण देशात संघटना काँग्रेसच्या बैलजोडीला, जनसंघाच्या पणतीला, डाव्यांच्या लाल बावट्याला आणि इतर पक्षांना निवडणुकीत धूळ चारली होती. ‘गाय-वास...

No party willing to take gamble of mid-term polls in the State Camil Parkhe Wednesday, 21 June 2017    goo.gl/kyedu9 The moot question is that can any of the warring factions of the ruling alliance or the opposition parties afford the gamble of mid-term polls or at any stage in the near future The BJP-led State government has just completed half of its five-year term and there is talk of the possibility of mid-term polls. Unlike in the past, the debate is not about the creation of any of the opposition parties but the major partners in the alliance government – the BJP and the Shiv Sena.  Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said his party was confident of returning to power if mid-term polls were held in the state anytime. This led to Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan jumping into the fray to claim that their parties too were...