Supriya Sule

Patil made the remarks on Wednesday during a protest by the state BJP unit in Mumbai for seeking reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in elections

Small groups of employees were seen rushing towards the high-security Pawar residence in Silver Oaks Building, broke the security barricades, shouted slogans, and pelted stones, shoes at his home

After some members pointed out the gaffe, Sule corrected herself and said that Rijiju is no more the Sports Minister

'Maharashtra has never bowed before the authority of Delhi and will never do so,' the Lok Sabha member from Baramati said

Amid the ongoing Maharashtra crisis involving state home minister over the SUV case fallout, NCP MP Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule met Sonia Gandhi to apprise her of the situation in the state

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that fixing 41 per cent as share of states from the divisible pool of taxes should not be seen as a "reduction" but was a result of one state becoming two Union territories. Her remarks came in response to a query in Lok Sabha about the allocation by NCP member Supriya Sule. States' share coming down to 41 per cent from 42 per cent should not be read as a reduction, the minister said. "42 per cent was the devolution formula based on the Finance Commission's recommendations as states' share but when there is one less state, which has become a Union territory... to that extent that one per cent was brought down," she said during an intervention on Budget discussion. It is because that portion has to be added to Union territories to which the Centre distributes, she added Jammu & Kashmir has been converted into Union territories of J&K and Ladakh. "So, kindly don't read as reduction in devolution of quantum... if there is one ..

Pawar had met the Prime Minister last month amid parleys between the NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena

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Supriya Sule hugging Ajit Pawar reminded one of the advice Michael Corleone gave his elder brother Fredo

"Who do you trust in life. Never felt so cheated in life. Defended him, loved him. Look what I get in return," she had said in another status post, about Ajit Pawar.

The development, Athawale said, is a "big setback and a lesson" for the Shiv Sena which was unwilling to form government with the BJP.

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said there was a big padlock on his door and he had to "force himself" to come out and speak to the media

Pawar told him NCP's stand is very clear, yet rumours are spread to create confusion, says Sena MP

Sule also took a dig at Maharashtra CM Fadnavis for copying every act of PM Narendra Modi

The NCP leader rode on a motorcycle due to heavy traffic