Ganpat Gaikwad, a three-time MLA who had joined the BJP in 2019, is considered to be a strong critic of CM Shinde and recently made a statement that he (Ganpat) should contest the Lok Sabha elections from Kalyan instead of giving it to Shrikant Shinde.
Violence broke out in Kolhapur following protests over social media posts with reference to 18th-century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan and Mughal ruler Aurangzeb.
The BJP has launched an aggressive campaign to wrest the BMC, the richest civic body with an annual budget of Rs 45,000 crore, from the Uddhav Thackeray-led party.
The Chief Minister received the Prime Minister at INS Shikra, the naval heliport in Colaba. From there the Chief Minister and the Prime Minister drove to Raj Bhavan for the first event where they shared the stage together.
A manager with a nationalised bank had complained to police, alleging that Mr Kamboj and two other directors of a company had taken a loan of Rs 52 crore and used it for other than the intended purpose, the police official said.