Topic: Sharad Pawar

Mumbai police has registered a case against BJP MLA Nitesh Rane and former MP Nilesh Rane for their controversial remarks alleging that NCP chief Sharad Pawar is involved in a nexus with Dawood Ibrahim.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress supremo spoke to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) head Sharad Pawar on Wednesday hours after Maharashtra minister and his party leader Nawab Malik was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case.

NCP supremo Sharad Pawar Wednesday hit out at the Narendra Modi government, alleging it has been misusing institutions run by Union government for saffron party's political benefits.

NCP supremo Sharad Pawar warned the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday that it will have to pay a heavy price for the Lakhimpur Kheri killings of farmers and asserted that the entire opposition is with the farmers.

Opposition leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and chief ministers of Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have written to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him "to direct the Government to act against those responsible for foisting false cases" on the renowned tribal rights activist and Elgaar Parishad case accused Father Stan Swamy, who died on Monday.

Leaders of 12 opposition parties Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a free mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus, and a suspension of the central vista revamp project to aid the fight against the pandemic, PTI reported.