Mumbai : The Shiv Sena on Friday again attacked the BJP for demonetizing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 bank notes in 2016, calling it a “butchering of the Indian economy” which it said even the Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) had conceded. The hasty and ill-advised move was not ‘patriotic’ but created “economic anarchy” in […]
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Shiv Sena dismisses PM’s interviews as ‘propaganda’
Mumbai : In its first reaction to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s published interview, BJP ally Shiv Sena on Monday described it as “akin to sheer propaganda”. “The reporters sent questions to the PMO, which sent written replies. Many have treated it as an an interview. In other words, it is propaganda,” the Sena said in […]
Shiv Sena says quotas should go beyond 50 per cent limit
New Delhi : Shiv Sena, which has supported reservation to Marathas, on Monday said the government should take steps to enhance reservation in jobs beyond the 50 per cent ceiling. Participating in the debate on SC/ST (Protection of Atrocities) Bill, 2018, Shiv Sena MP Arwind Sawant said the government had brought a legilstation to restore […]
No possibility of tie-up with Shiv Sena, says Congress
New Delhi : As Shiv Sena continues to take potshots at BJP, the Congress does not appear keen on any alliance with it for the Lok Sabha or assembly polls with top party sources saying that talks can be held only with “like-minded and ideologically aligned parties.” Congress sources said the party was not likely […]
BJP will get ‘demonetization-like’ jolt in 2019: Shiv Sena
Mumbai : The Shiv Sena on Thursday predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will get a ‘demonetization-like’ shock in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It said that winds of change in favour of the opposition alliance were blowing in almost all the states and that people had “made up their minds since one-and-half years” […]
Day after confidence vote, Shiv Sena calls Rahul ‘face of Opposition’
Mumbai : Hours after it kept away from the no-confidence motion against the National Democratic Alliance government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ruling ally Shiv Sena came out in full praise of Congress President Rahul Gandhi here on Saturday. “Rahul is now ‘the face of the Opposition’ that has become clear and evident from […]
Sena’s decision on no-confidence motion internal matter: Nitish
Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that the Shiv Sena decision to abstain from voting on the no-confidence motion in Parliament is the NDA ally’s “internal matter”, adding his party JD-U will vote against the motion. The motion has been brought by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) against the NDA government, […]
Nanar will be Konkan farmers’ ‘genocide’: Shiv Sena warns BJP
Mumbai :The Shiv Sena on Friday warned that the upcoming Nanar refinery-petrochemicals complex in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri would prove to be “a poisonous gas chamber and lead to a genocide of the Konkan farmers”, one akin to Hitler’s mass-execution of the Jews. Terming the ally Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to go ahead with the estimated $44 […]
Farmers, families end lives – Is this ‘Achhe Din’?” Shiv Sena asks Modi
Mumbai : Referring to suicides in Maharashtra by farmers and others, the Shiv Sena on Monday pointedly asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi: “Is this your promised ‘Achhe Din’?” Blaming the BJP-led governments at the centre and in Maharashtra, the Sena said that all these people took the extreme step of ending their lives due to […]
Shiv Sena demands action against RBI Governor
Mumbai : The Shiv Sena pounced on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, seeking to know “what action the (current) Finance Minister Piyush Goyal has taken against the RBI governor and chiefs of banks” which have been defrauded by big industrialists who have fled the country. “How many bank chairmen who gave fraudulent loans […]