Maoists fire at polling booth during Maharashtra re-pollOctober 15th, 2009 NAGPUR - Suspected Maoists fired at a polling booth Thursday during re-poll in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, police said. Additional Superintendent of Police M.K.
Re-poll ordered in two Maharashtra polling stationsOctober 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Wednesday ordered re-poll in two stations and adjourned voting in 22 others in Maharashtra after Tuesdays assembly elections. The re-poll has been ordered at one station each in Nagpur and Ichalkaranji constituencies.
EC offers fresh voting in Maoist area of MaharashtraOctober 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - People in 22 polling stations in the Maoist-affected areas of Maharashtra, where poll officials could not reach Tuesday, will be given another opportunity to vote, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said here. Chawla said the polling was "very satisfactory" and the "morale was extremely" high in the Maoist-hit polling stations in Maharashtra.
Maoists sneaking into Maharashtra to cause trouble: policeOctober 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government has received intelligence inputs that Maoists from neighbouring states have infiltrated into the state to foment trouble during voting for the assembly elections Tuesday, a senior police official said here Monday. "We have got intelligence reports that Maoists are infiltrating here from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.
Cops injured in Maoist attack in Vidarbha recovering: DoctorsOctober 9th, 2009 NAGPUR - The four policemen badly injured in an attack by Maoists in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra are responding to medical treatment, said doctors attending them in Nagpur on Friday. Maoists rebels had killed 17 policemen in Maharashtra on Thursday, a couple of days after they had beheaded a police officer in Jharkhand.
Maoists massacre 17 policemen in Maharashtra (Third Lead)October 8th, 2009 NAGPUR - In a major attack days before the assembly polls, Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 17 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. Suspected Maoists also slit the throat of a police informer and dumped his body in the same district, police said.
Hung assembly in Maharashtra, Congress to sweep Haryana: pollOctober 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It will be a hung verdict in Maharashtra but the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance will end with most seats while the Congress will sweep Haryana in coming assembly elections, an opinion poll Thursday said. According to the survey by Star News channel, the Congress-NCP combine ruling Maharashtra will win up to 140 of the 288 assembly seats.
Maoists slaughter 18 policemen in Maharashtra (Second Lead)October 8th, 2009 NAGPUR - Maoist guerrillas Thursday ambushed a police patrol and gunned down at least 18 policemen in a jungle stretch of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, officials said. The massacre occurred about a kilometre from Laheri village when the policemen were trekking through thick forests in search of hidden Maoists, an official of the Gadchiroli district police told IANS.
Maoists kill 18 policemen in MaharashtraOctober 8th, 2009 GADCHIROLI - At least 18 policemen were killed by the Maoists in an ambush in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra on Thursday afternoon. According to the police the left wing ultras attacked the police out post near Lahir village of Bhamragadh tehsil of Gadchiroli District.
Maoists attack police patrol, torch panchayat office in MaharashtraOctober 8th, 2009 NAGPUR - In two separate incidents, Maoist rebels attacked a police patrol Thursday and set fire to a village panchayat building in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, a day after Home Minister P. Chidambaram appealed to them for peace.
Deshmukh to head Congress' Maharashtra poll panelSeptember 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Friday appointed Heavy Industries Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh as chairman of the election management committee for Maharashtra polls. "Congress president Sonia Gandhi has nominated Vilasrao Deshmukh as the chairman of the election management committee for the ensuing assembly election in Maharashtra," Janardan Dwivedi, chairman of party's media department, said in a release here.
'Congress should contest Maharashtra elections alone'June 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A senior Congress leader has said the party should fight the assembly elections in Maharashtra alone rather than in alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). In the latest issue of Congress mouthpiece Sandesh, its editor Anil Shastri, who is also a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), said: A larger chunk of Congresspersons in Maharashtra want to go it alone in the coming assembly elections.
Police foil Maoist attack in Maharashtra villageApril 16th, 2009 GADCHIROLI - A gang of heavily armed Maoists came to attack a polling booth in a village Thursday but were foiled by security forces who opened retaliatory fire forcing them back into the jungles, police here said. The guerrillas were seen approaching the booth in Kondavahi village here at 5 a.m.
Congress set to win more seats in Maharashtra, Punjab: SurveyApril 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and its allies are expected to win more seats from Maharashtra and Punjab in the Lok Sabha elections, according to an NDTV opinion poll released Wednesday. The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are likely to win 30 seats in Maharashtra, up from their current tally of 23, while the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance's number is expected to come down from 25 to 18 in the state's 48 seats, the NDTV said in a statement on the poll.
Congress, NCP strike seat deal in MaharashtraMarch 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After its failure to cobble a poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar, the Congress party Monday stuck a deal over sharing of seats with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra. 'We will fight unitedly as alliance partners in Maharashtra.
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