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Cong Fears Losing North Indian Votes If MNS Joins Oppn Front CCI NG 3.7 Product: TOIMumbaiBS PubDate: 17-02-2019 Zone: MumbaiCity Edition: 2 Page: TOIMMUM3 User: alex.fernandes Time: 02-17-2019 00:51 Color: CMYK SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, MUMBAI * FEBRUARY 17, 2019 TIMES CITY 5 Complete your TV viewing experience with the Times - M.A.N. Pack . Get MOVIES NOW TIMES NOW ROMEDY NOW ET NOW MNX MIRROR NOW & ZOOM. Ask your Cable/DTH operator for the Times M.A.N. Pack at Z 13 p.m. + taxes. Union govt MALKHAMB GETS A GLOBAL TOUCH Cong fears losing north Indian ups minimum S L Shanth Kumar price for sugar votes if MNS joins oppn front he tussle between sugar cane farmers and factori- Prafulla.Marpakwar MNS’s inclusion, Sharad Pa- Tes in western Maharash- @timesgroup.com Rahul likely to address LS poll war had recently said there tra is set to end with the Union would be no truck with the government hiking the mini- Mumbai: The Congress is not rally in Mumbai early in March MNS for the elections. mum support price (MSP) of su- in favour of accommodating On the seat-sharing for- gar in the retail market by Rs 2 the Maharashtra Navnirman ongress president Rahul Gandhi will address election rallies mula, Chavan said on Satur- per kg and announcing a subsi- Sena in the Cong-NCP-led Cin Maharashtra in the first week of March, while the day it had almost been finali- dy for sugar mills. Leaders of ‘Maha Aghad’ or opposition Congress-NCP alliance will launch its campaign for the Lok sed. “An agreement has been Swabhimani Shetkari Sanga- front in the state. Sabha polls from Nanded, the hometown of state Congress reached on contesting 48 se- hatna (SSS) said they hope the A senior Mumbai Cong- president and former chief minister Ashok Chavan. According to ats. It has been proposed that decision will end the current cri- ress leader, who did not wish a senior Congress leader who did not wish to be named, Rahul the Congress will contest 26 sis in the sugar industry in the to be named, said it would be Gandhi is likely to address a poll meeting in Mumbai on March 3. seats. A panel of three nomi- state, but the sugar factories we- wrong to accommodate the The Nanded rally of the Congress-NCP alliance will be nees has been drafted for each re cautious in their reaction. MNS in the opposition allian- addressed, besides Chavan, by NCP president Sharad Pawar and seat. The list of candidates The Union government on Fri- ce due to the stand taken by AICC general secretary Mallikarjun Kharge. It will be followed by will be placed before the cen- day increased the MSP of sugar Raj Thackeray against Hindi- another rally at Parli Vaijanath in Beed district. TNN tral screening committee, and from Rs 29 to Rs 31. This will ef- speaking migrants in Mum- we expect a final decision ear- fectively reduce the gap between bai. “Raj Thackeray has never ly. NCP will contest 22 seats,” manufacturing cost and selling expressed any regret for the Chhattisgarh. “We believe day that Ajit Pawar made a Chavan said. price. The government has also MNS’s assaults on Hindi-spea- that most of them are sympat- strong push for inclusion of On allotment of seats for given an assurance that factori- king people in the city. In fact, hisers of the Congress. Under MNS at a meeting of senior le- like-minded parties from wit- es that follow government A foreigner does the Malkhamb at the first-ever international championship held in the city on Friday. in the recent past, MNS wor- such circumstances, it would aders presided over by NCP hin the Congress-NCP quota, norms will get subsidy between Participants from more than 15 countries took part in the event kers have again stepped up be a disaster to accommodate president Sharad Pawar. Ajit Chavan said four seats had be- Rs 200 and Rs 250 per tonne. their activities. Raj does not the MNS. We will only end up Pawar then took up the matter en proposed to be kept aside SSS leader, Raju Shettti, said have faith in the Constitution eroding our base in the city,” during the Congress-NCP me- for the Prakash Ambedkar-led sugar factories should make pa- and had been discriminating he said. eting attended by Ashok Cha- Vanchit Bahujan Vikas Agha- yment to farmers without delay. As Sena, BJP hint at tie-up, against people on the basis of Ajit Pawar had said last van and state NCP president di, two for the Raju Shetti-led “I don’t think it is necessary to religion and caste,” he said. week that “in view of the fact Jayant Patil. Swabhimani Shetkari Sang- continue our agitation because The Congress leader poin- that the MNS has a conside- Raj Thackeray had in Fe- hatana and one each for CPM of the new development,” he sa- ted out that there are more rable presence and had polled bruary last year conducted a and RPI. So far, there has been id. Sanjay Khatal, managing di- than 60 lakh Hindi-speaking a large number of votes in ear- public interview of NCP chief no response from Ambedkar. rector of Maharashtra State Co- allies seek pound of flesh people in the city. Most of lier elections, we should ac- Sharad Pawar on the Brihan “There is a row over Ahmed- operative Sugar Factories Fede- them –35 lakh—are from eas- commodate it.” A day later, he Maharashtra College of Com- nagar and Aurangabad seats. ration Ltd, said the increase of Sujit.Mahamulkar hoping to win from south Cen- —and 15 assembly seats. “We tern UP, and the rest are from even had a meeting with Raj merce grounds in Pune. Befo- But I am sure it will be resol- Rs 2 per kg would not solve the @timesgroup.com tral Mumbai as he he may want six Lok Sabha seats inclu- Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Thackeray. It was on the same re his nephew pushed for the ved amicably,” Chavan said. current crisis. —Satyajit Joshi bank on Dalit pockets in the ding Madha, Baramati and Mumbai: As the uncertainty constituency. Mumbai North-east. Talks ha- over an alliance between Shiv Avinash Mahatekar, an RPI ve not yet started, but we will Sena and BJP seems to end, leader, told TOI that the party soon meet the BJP state func- with leaders of both parties wants only one Lok Sabha seat tionary soon,” said Jankar, PM flags off train to Mumbai, other projects sending out positive signals, president of RSP. BJP’s smaller allies are aggres- While RPI wants 1Lok Sabha NCP chief Sharad Pawar is TIMES NEWS NETWORK for the Dhule-Nardana new rail transport minister Nitin Gad- sively putting forth their de- and 16 assembly seats, likely to contest from Madha line and the Jalgaon-Manmad kari and Union minister of state mands ahead of the parliamen- Rashtriya Samaj Paksha constituency while his daugh- Yavatmal/Dhule: Inaugura- third rail line. The development for home Hansraj Ahir, in who- tary and assembly elections wants 6 Lok Sabha and 15 ter Supriya Sule may be the ting a slew of projects during projects inaugurated on Satur- se Lok Sabha constituency in slated to be held this year. candidate from Baramati. his tour of Maharashtra on Sa- day would allow Dhule to com- Yavatmal the rally was organi- A BJP ally, Republican Par- assembly seats in the state Jankar is a member of the turday, PM Narendra Modi pre- pete with Surat in neighbou- zed, were present. ty of India (RPI), which is led state legislative council while sented his government’s pro- ring Gujarat in the next 30 ye- Gadkari said, “Because of by Union minister of state and 16 assembly seats. “Our Rahul Kul is the only elected gress report and developmental ars, he said. accelerated irrigation projects Ramdas Athavale, wants one party leader is planning to me- member in the party’s repre- agenda and stated that if the pe- After beginning his speech and aid provided by the Centre Lok Sabha and 16 assembly se- et and request Shiv Sena presi- sentative in the assembly. ople of India had not given the in Yavatmal in the local Banjara for fast-paced infrastructure ats while Rashtriya Samaj dent Uddhav Thackeray to lea- Jankar, however, said that NDA a strong and unambiguo- dialect, paying tributes to the projects, Yavatmal would no Paksha (RSP) led by state cabi- ve the south-central Mumbai even after an alliance with the us mandate in 2014, the country community’s saints like Sevalal longer be known by its earlier net minister Mahadev Jankar seat for RPI against Satara LS BJP, the party candidates will would have been still stuck on and speaking for a while in Ma- label as farm-suicide capital.” wants six Lok Sabha and 15 as- constituency,” said Mahatekar. contest polls on their own par- the path of slow development. rathi, Modi said his govern- Fadnavis announced a big hike sembly seats in the state. Atha- Sena’s Rahul Shewalere- ty’s symbol instead of the In Pandharkawada in Ya- ment had worked tirelessly for in the revolving capital for wo- vale represents the Dalit com- presentsSouth Central Mum- BJP’s symbol. “I want to take vatmal district, the PM e-inau- farmers and pointed to the men SHGs (self-help groups) — munity while Jankar claims to bai while the Satara constitu- my party to the national level, gurated schemes including an Rs6,000 that his government from Rs60,000 to Rs1 lakh — be the leader of the Dhangar ency is represented by NCP’sU- so my party’s candidates will Eklavya residential school at PM Modi was received in Nagpur on Saturday morning by Union would place annually directly amid cheers from beneficiaries community.
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