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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...

Civic poll results exposing BJP’s weakness in rural Maharashtra Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Thursday, 21 April 2016 AT 03:03 PM IST       blog ,  civic poll ,  poll result ,  BJP ,  Nagar panchayats ,  Zilla Parishad ,  Panchayat samitis ,  Maharashtra , Camil Parkhe In the recently concluded elections to the newly formed local self government civic bodies (Nagar Panchayats) in Maharashtra, the Congress has emerged as the leading party, the NCP and Shiv Sena have won equal seats while BJP was relegated to the last- fourth place. The number of the Nagar Panchayats in the state which went to the polls was very minuscule, only six and there were also bypolls to a few municipal corporations, Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis. Nonetheless, the poll verdict needs to be taken seriously by all political parties in the state as they are indication of the people’s opinion about these parties. The six Nagar Panchayats...