Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said if Congress leaders in Maharashtra assume that they are a big brother in the alliance, then it was not right for them to forget his party's role.

Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut criticizes Congress' Balasaheb Thorat for staking a premature claim to the CM's post, emphasizing unity among MVA parties and highlighting Shiv Sena's contributions to Congress' recent electoral gains.

The Sena (UBT) spokesperson then claimed that they had given up the winning seats of Amravati, Ramtek, and Kolhapur for the Congress.

MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday blamed Congress leaders in Maharashtra for the delay in seat-sharing negotiations for the upcoming assembly elections. Speaking to reporters, Raut said the opposition alliance,

AICC general secretary in charge of Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala condemned the move of the Modi government to have non-Muslims on wakf boards. "Can Muslims be on the board of Guruvayur temple?" he asked referring to the famed Krishna temple in Kerala.

With the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) unwilling to get into the contest for having more share of seats in the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024, the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is expected give the Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) more seats with almost equal share for both.

I am 100 per cent confident the next Chief Minister of Maharashtra will be from the MVA and Congress,” Thorat said in what was the first public statement from the Congress seeking the chief minister’s post.

In signs of friction in the MVA over the chief minister's post, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said ally Congress should understand his party's contribution in increasing the grand old p