Pressure mounts in Congress to remove Thakre

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In an apparent reference to NCP, Maharashtra PCC President Manikrao Thakre today said "an ally" of Congress in the state had "betrayed" it during recent local self government elections held in Vidarbha.

Kolhapur, Apr 16 (UNI) Every responsible political leader should use words with full consideration, said Manikrao Thakre, president of Maharashtra unit of the Congress party, today. "Any responsible leader should not use such words," he said while ...

In its bid to reach out to party grassroot ahead of the 2014 general and Assembly elections, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has planned a series of meetings to strengthen the organisation. The state unit, headed by Manikrao Thakre, will hold ...

Mumbai: Congress leaders in Mumbai and Maharashtra welcomed the appointment of MP Gurudas Kamat as party general secretary and in-charge of Rajasthan and Gujarat. Kamat, 58, representing Mumbai North-West constituency in Lok Sabha, has also been elevated to ...

Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar has killed two birds with one stone. By asking all 20 NCP ministers in the Congress-led government in Maharashtra to resign, Pawar has sent a strong signal that he is the boss and rest will have to follow his line for survival.    Pawar has pressed the alarm button to arrest the party’s deteriorating image in the wake of a series of exposé on scams involving party ministers, including Chhagan Bhujbal, Sunil Tatkare, Babanrao ...

India, June 9 -- Congress Sources said Congress would continue with its existing team because it did not want to indicate to its rank and file that NCP boss Sharad Pawar "Is it mandatory that we too change our team just because they change theirs," ...

Not for the first time Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has made a move to assert his supreme authority in the party and propel it to more respectability, keeping an eagle eye on the general and Maharashtra Assembly polls in ...

If the Congress mustering a win in the Yavatmal assembly by- poll must offer some solace to the party high command, it was far from an easy triumph. Nandini Parvekar's candidature was opposed by the state party president Manikrao Thakre who wanted ...