NCP MP arrest: Maharashtra opposition creates ruckus

September 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Monday announced its second list of 40 candidates for the Oct 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana. The party also finalised the names of candidates for by-election to three seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly, according to an official statement here.

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Saturday evening announced its list of candidates for the oct 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh. In Maharashtra, where the party is going to contest 119 of the 288 total seats, with ally Shiv Sena contesting the rest, it announced a first list of 66 candidates.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Assembly polls in the three Congress-ruled states of Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh will be held simultaneously Oct 13, the Election Commission announced Monday. The counting of votes will take place nine days later, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters here.

August 13th, 2009 Mass. man sorry for '97 arrest gets arrested againSALISBURY, Mass. — A 55-year-old Massachusetts man brought coffee to a police station to apologize for creating a ruckus 12 years ago, and was violently arrested the next day by the same department.

June 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - Three opposition legislators were suspended from the Maharashtra legislative council for creating a ruckus in the house Tuesday after the government failed to table the report of the Ram Pradhan Committee which inquired into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. While senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vinod Tawde was suspended for three years, his party colleague Arvind Sawant and Shiv Sena's Diwakar Raote were suspended till the end of their respective terms in the legislative council by deputy chairman Vasant Davkhare.

June 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - The arrest of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Padamsinh Patil by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) rocked the Maharashtra assembly Monday with the opposition demanding the resignation of Home Minister Jayant Patil and Information Minister Rana Jagatjitsinh Patil, the son of the accused. The issue came up prominently in the assembly and council when the day's proceedings began in the morning, leading to adjournments of the houses amid an uproar created by the opposition.

June 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - In the line of opposition fire for allegedly providing sub-standard bulletproof jackets to the Mumbai police, including those who fell to terrorists' bullets during 26/11, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan Friday said they were "wild allegations". "These are wild allegations, baseless," Chavan told the CNN-IBN news channel Friday night.

June 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - The Maharashtra assembly witnessed pandemonium for the second consecutive day Tuesday with the opposition parties walking out over the alleged leak of the Ram Pradhan Committee probe report on the Mumbai terror attacks. Rejecting the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party legislators' contentions, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan denied that the Pradhan Committee report had been leaked.

May 1st, 2009 MUMBAI/AHMEDABAD - Maharashtra and Gujarat celebrated their formation day on Friday. On the occasion, Maharashtra Governor S.

March 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.

March 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Maharashtra Police on Friday said it would be better if the Indian Premier League (IPL) is held in the state after elections.aharashtra's Director General (Elections) Suprabhat Chakravarty suggested that the tournament should be put on hold till the election is over. "There is no point in putting extra strain on policemen.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Wednesday struck an alliance in Maharashtra for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan told reporters that the two parties had arrived at a seat-sharing arrangement for 40 of the 48 seats in the state.

February 25th, 2009 AGARTALA - Slogan shouting opposition members and bedlam Tuesday forced Tripura Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahaya to leave the assembly without completing his customary speech in the opening session of the year. 'Please allow me to read out my speech.

January 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Thursday refused to ban the release of Bhojpuri film 'Deshdrohi', which allegedly depicts Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's stand against north Indians, in Maharashtra. A bench of Justices B.N.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Wednesday stalled the imminent arrest of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, ordered by a Jamshedpur court for his rabble-rousing speeches against people from Bihar and other north Indian states who were staying in Maharashtra. Suspending the arrest warrant, a bench of Chief Justice K.G.