The Union home ministry transferred the probe to the National Investigation Agency soon after the Shiv Sena-NCP- Congress government took some steps to go to the root of the case, Pawar claimed
NCP spokesperson and state Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik described the decision as a "cover-up" by the Centre to hide the wrongdoings of the previous BJP-led government in the state.
Fadnavis thanked Ajit, MLAs, and Independent legislators for their support.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the top court the Maharashtra governor is not supposed to conduct a roving and fishing inquiry to ascertain which party has the numbers to form government.
Raut also claimed that by 2022, there will be enough numbers "on our side" to decide the presidential candidate
Besides Union Ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and Ramdas Athawale, other prominent leaders who will retire during the year include Sharad Pawar, Digvijay Singh and Vijay Goel
Would it mean Air India going the Jet Airways way and suspending operations?
Pawar was the deputy CM twice in the 15-year regime of Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra during 1999-2014
Pawar was sworn into the post for the second time in just over a month
Speaking to reporters after inaugurating a sports event at Balewadi stadium here, Pawar said cabinet expansion would take place in the state on December 30
The former Union minister hailed the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led three-party opposition alliance's poll victory in the tribal state where the BJP has been ousted from power
Thackeray heads a coalition government of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress
He questioned why only migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be given citizenship under the amended law and not the Sri Lankan Tamils.
A senior Shiv Sena leader had recently claimed that Maharashtra Chief Minister and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had given "oral orders" against felling of trees for the proposed memorial.
Speaking to reporters, Malik said NCP chief Sharad Pawar held a meeting of the party legislators in evening in Nagpur where the winter session of the state legislature is currently underway
The campaign was started by the NCP's social justice cell led by its Thane city chief Kailas Hawle under the guidance of Mumbra-Kalwa MLA Jitendra Awhad, said a party functionary
Political sources said Mahto's equation with the BJP's incumbent CM, Raghubar Das, was "indifferent".
The chief minister described Munde as a "people's leader and son of Marathawada"
Pawar also said that Rs 50,000 would be deposited as assistance in the accounts of wives of the farmers who committed suicide
The meeting at Nehru Center was attended by Shiv Sena leaders Eknath Shinde, Sanjay Rautand Subhash Desai, and the NCP's Ajit Pawar and Jayant Patil, sources said