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Small parties of Parivartan Mahashakti Aghadi announce first list of 10 candidates

Raju Shetti, Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje, and Bachchu Kadu met in the city on Monday to finalise seat sharing for their parties - Swabhiman Paksha, Swarajya Party and Prahar Janshakti respectively

Members of Parivartan Mahashakti Aghadi during a press conference in Pune on Monday. (HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Oct 22, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Farmer leader and former MP Raju Shetti applies for MHADA housing lottery

Shetti, who serves as the President of Swabhimani Paksha, has made a single application in this year's draw for a flat on Adi Shankaracharya Marg in Powai

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Published on Sep 28, 2024 12:26 PM IST

ByAteeq Shaikh

Farmers’ political front to fight assembly polls

Farmer leaders in Maharashtra form 'Parivartan Aghadi' for upcoming elections, uniting various factions to contest on all 288 seats and raise farmers' issues.

Farmer leader Raju Shetti is at the forefront of the initiative and brought all leaders together. (HT FILE)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2024 07:22 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

‘BJP has stooges in MVA working for them’: Raju Shetti

Shetti spoke to HT while campaigning in Hatkanangale, where he lashed out at MVA leaders for allegedly working as BJP’s stooges

Pune, India - February 28, 2019: Raju Shetti meets the members of Swabhiani Shetkari Sanghatana for to draw out plan for upcoming elections at Buntara Bhavan in Pune, India, on Thursday, February 28, 2019. (Photo by Sanket Wankhade/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on May 03, 2024 03:42 PM IST

ByFaisal Malik

MVA undecided over support to Shetti in Hatkanangle

Meanwhile, speaking in Kolhapur, Jayant Patil, state president of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar), suggested that if Shetti does not officially join the MVA alliance, they will field their own candidate

All three MVA parties have a good presence in the region, however, a three-way tussle may hand the advantage to Shiv Sena’s Mane, considering the likely vote split between the MVA candidate and Shetti. (HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Mar 28, 2024 08:20 AM IST

ByDheeraj Bengrut

Shetti firm on fighting polls from Hatkanangle as Sena undecided to extend support

After the review meeting of the party, Shetti clarified that he will not back either the MVA alliance comprising Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SCP), and Congress or Mahayuti of BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP

Earlier, Sena (UBT) had asked Shetti to fight polls on the former’s party symbol, which he refused. (HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Mar 24, 2024 06:06 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Sena (UBT) leader who opposed Shetti’s inclusion in MVA removed from post

Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Kolhapur district chief Murlidhar Jadhav was replaced with another leader Vaibhav Ugale

Jadhav had questioned the possible entry of Shetti into the MVA after he met Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree on Tuesday. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

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Updated on Jan 05, 2024 05:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Raju Shetti, Thackeray join hands to counter Adani

Farmer leader Raju Shetti and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will work together to protest against alleged undue favors to the Adani group in Maharashtra. Shetti will hold protests in rural areas while Thackeray will focus on urban areas. They will also jointly address the issue of Adani's hydro power projects in Konkan and Kolhapur.

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Updated on Jan 03, 2024 08:04 AM IST

BySaurabha Kulshreshtha

Are farmers’ outfits losing influence in the state?

The last noteworthy agitation was the farmers’ protest under the umbrella of Samyukta Kisan Morcha in 2020. This unity is not mirrored in Maharashtra

SHETKARI SANGATHAN LEADER AND CHAIRMAN GOVERNMENT'S TASK FORCE ON AGRICULTURE SHARAD JOSHI ADDRESSING AT A KISAN KUMBH (RALLY) AT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU STADIUM IN NEW DELHI ON FRIDAY PHOTO BY. S. BURMAULA

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Updated on Aug 16, 2023 12:34 AM IST

ByFaisal Malik

Who is Raghunathdada Patil and why does KCR want him?

KCR has inducted the farmer leader in his attempt to expand his party's footprint in Maharashtra. Will it give Patil's political career a shot in the arm?

While inducting Patil, KCR said that BRS has got a fighter leader in the form of Raghunath Patil, and his entry will help strengthen BRS in Maharashtra.(BRSMaharashtra Twitter)

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Published on Aug 09, 2023 09:48 AM IST

BySaurabha Kulshreshtha

Fissures emerge in Maharashtra as Raju Shetti hits out at NCP over MLC names

In response, NCP chief Sharad Pawar expressed surprise and rejected the speculation that the MVA has requested governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to drop Shetti’s name from the list of 12 people recommended to be appointed as MLC

Raju Shetti is considered a strong farmer leader with good grassroots support. (Archive)

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Updated on Sep 05, 2021 02:13 AM IST

ByFaisal Malik, Hindustan Times, Mumbai

Farm bills: Maharashtra farmers participate in nationwide protests

Protests will be intensified against corporate companies that are expected to benefit from the bills

Farmers across the country are protesting against three new farm bills which they say are against the interest of farmers.(Representational Photo/AP)

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Published on Sep 25, 2020 10:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | ByHT Correspondent | Edited by Zara Khan

Kadaknath chicken scheme: Raju Shetti approaches ED, seeks probe into ‘money laundering case’

The firm supplies ‘Kadaknath chicken’ and is facing multiple charges of cheating in Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara and Pune police.

Swabhimani Paksha chief and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ally Raju Shetti on Friday approached the Enforcement Directorate (ED) demanding a probe into the alleged money laundering at the Maharayat Agro India Private Limited company. (Photo by Sanket Wankhade/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Sep 07, 2019 01:12 AM IST

Mumbai | ByPratik Salunkhe, Mumbai

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Government offset income slowdown with asset creation in rural heartland

The BJP scored commanding leads across farm belts in major battleground states on the strength of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s heavy campaigning focused on national security, foreign policy and Hindutva.

Nearly 70% of India’s 900 million voters are rural and 260 million belong to farming households.(Arvind Yadav/HT File Photo)

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Updated on May 24, 2019 07:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent, Zia Haq

Shetti loses in Hatkanangle, cane growers lose voice in parliament

Farmers in Western Maharashtra show no sign of an agro-distress hangover

Shetti, founder of Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, lost to Shiv Sena’s Dhairyasheel Mane by a margin of over 97,000 votes.(HT Photo)

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Updated on May 23, 2019 07:55 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByYogesh Joshi

Shetti’s battle to retain Hatkanangle tests Sena-BJP’s farmer appeal

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena alliance are determined to wrest this sugar bowl seat away from Shetti, whose SSS is now aligned with the Congress-NCP combine in the state

Raju Shetti has been leading the cane growers’ agitation for the past decade, demanding a higher support price for produce(Rahul Raut/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Mar 29, 2019 04:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByParth Welankar

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Maharashtra’ Hatkanangle, a constituency that has had a rebirth

Maharashtra’s 48 constituencies will vote to elect members to the Lok Sabha in four phases on April 11, 18, 23 and 29.

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Updated on Apr 19, 2019 03:29 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress workers protest in Sangli against seat sharing with farmers’ party

Congress party workers, on Friday, protested in Sangli to oppose the possibility of the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance’s support to a Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana candidate from the Sangli Lok Sabha constituency.

Congress workers took to the streets after the current member of Parliament and Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana’s founder Raju Shetti sought the Sangli, Wardha or Buldhana seats to join the alliance.(Uday Deolekar/HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 16, 2019 02:22 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByShalaka Shinde

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: BJP’s friend turned foe looks to side with Congress-NCP in Hatkanangle constituency

Once bitter critics of Sharad Pawar and his policies, the Raju Shetti-led Swabhimani Paksha, the political arm of the Swabhimani Shetakari Sanghatana (SSS), is now exploring an alliance with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna chief MP Raju Shetti is the sitting Lok Sabha MP from the Harkanangle constituency.(HT File)

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Updated on Mar 12, 2019 03:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByParth Welankar and Yogesh Joshi

Will campaign against Pawar in Madha if alliance with Congress-NCP doesn’t work out: Raju Shetti

The final call on the alliance will be taken in the state unit meeting on February 28 in Pune

Raju Shetti, chief Swabhimani Shetakari Saghtana.(HT/PHOTO)

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Updated on Feb 25, 2019 04:09 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByYogesh Joshi

Sugarcane farmers across state protest for pending dues in Pune

The protest march started from Alka Chowk and via Fergusson College road it culminated at sugar commissionerate

Members of Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana sit outside Sakhar Sankul as they wait for their demands to be fulfilled in Pune(Sanket Wankhade/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Jan 29, 2019 05:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByShrinivas Deshpande

Former NCP MP from Kolhapur Nivedita Mane joins Shiv Sena

Over a decade ago, Mane had quit the Sena to join the NCP

Picture for representation only.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 16, 2018 12:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySwapnil Rawal, Mumbai

Congress, NCP hold talks with Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, CPI for Lok Sabha poll alliance

The Congress-NCP combine is holding backchannel talks with Prakash Ambedkar-led Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh. Leaders of the two parties had reached out to the Rajendra Gavai-led faction of Republican Party of India and CPI(M) on Sunday.

Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan (pictured), senior party leader Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and state NCP president Jayant Patil held discussions with Raju Shetti of the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana and CPI’s Tukaram Bhasme.(File Photo)

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Published on Sep 17, 2018 08:03 PM IST

Mumbai | ByPress Trust of India

Dairy farmers’ agitation sees mixed impact on milk supply in Pune on Day 4

Chitale dairy, one of Pune’s largest suppliers, said it won’t be able to supply milk on July 19 but the other major supplier, Katraj dairy, said its collections were going smoothly.

Milk distribution centre of Pune’s Chitale dairy. One of the two major milk suppliers of the city, Chitale said on Wednesday that all its buffer stock has been exhausted.(Ravindra Joshi / HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 20, 2018 03:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByShrinivas Deshpande

Dairy farmers’ stir intensifies, milk supply to Mumbai may be hit by Friday

Maharashtra government starts discussions with farmers’ outfit as protesters block state highways for all vehicles; supply unaffected so far because of stock in dairies, which is depleting.

A police vehicle accompanies milk tankers on their way to Mumbai, at Karad on Pune-Bangalore National Highway on Wednesday.(PTI)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2018 01:44 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByFaisal Malik, Mumbai

Milk protest trouble may boil over tomorrow

Agitation to intensify with farmers, their cattle blocking highways; CM to meet milk societies

A police vehicle accompanies milk tankers on their way to Mumbai on Pune-Bangalore National Highway.(PTI)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2018 12:07 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByFaisal Malik, Mumbai

Maharashtra farmers get half of what you pay for milk

While consumers in Mumbai pay Rs42 per litre of cow milk, dairy farmers get Rs19-24 per litre, which is just Rs4 more than their production cost of Rs18 per litre.

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna activists protest at Shiradhon Village in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, on Monday.(PTI Photo)

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Updated on Jul 18, 2018 12:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurendra P Gangan, Mumbai

Milk supply in Mumbai unaffected, as dairy farmers’ strike enters second day

Government officials said on Tuesday that supply may get hit in a day or two, if the strike is not called off.

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana activists pour milk in front of a temple in Karad, Maharashtra, on Monday.(PTI Photo)

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Updated on Jul 17, 2018 02:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByFaisal Malik, Mumbai

Raju Shetti-Rahul Gandhi meet: BJP cautious about the possible alliance

BJP leaders said the party will react on the issue only after Shetti officially joins hands with the Congress.

Swabhimani Paksha chief Raju Shetti.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 27, 2018 04:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Pune | ByHT Correspondents

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Raju Shetti, Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje, and Bachchu Kadu met in the city on Monday to finalise seat sharing for their parties - Swabhiman Paksha, Swarajya Party and Prahar Janshakti respectively

Shetti, who serves as the President of Swabhimani Paksha, has made a single application in this year's draw for a flat on Adi Shankaracharya Marg in Powai

Farmer leaders in Maharashtra form 'Parivartan Aghadi' for upcoming elections, uniting various factions to contest on all 288 seats and raise farmers' issues.

Shetti spoke to HT while campaigning in Hatkanangale, where he lashed out at MVA leaders for allegedly working as BJP’s stooges

Meanwhile, speaking in Kolhapur, Jayant Patil, state president of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar), suggested that if Shetti does not officially join the MVA alliance, they will field their own candidate

After the review meeting of the party, Shetti clarified that he will not back either the MVA alliance comprising Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SCP), and Congress or Mahayuti of BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP

Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Kolhapur district chief Murlidhar Jadhav was replaced with another leader Vaibhav Ugale

The last noteworthy agitation was the farmers’ protest under the umbrella of Samyukta Kisan Morcha in 2020. This unity is not mirrored in Maharashtra

KCR has inducted the farmer leader in his attempt to expand his party's footprint in Maharashtra. Will it give Patil's political career a shot in the arm?

In response, NCP chief Sharad Pawar expressed surprise and rejected the speculation that the MVA has requested governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to drop Shetti’s name from the list of 12 people recommended to be appointed as MLC

Protests will be intensified against corporate companies that are expected to benefit from the bills

The firm supplies ‘Kadaknath chicken’ and is facing multiple charges of cheating in Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara and Pune police.

The BJP scored commanding leads across farm belts in major battleground states on the strength of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s heavy campaigning focused on national security, foreign policy and Hindutva.

Farmers in Western Maharashtra show no sign of an agro-distress hangover

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena alliance are determined to wrest this sugar bowl seat away from Shetti, whose SSS is now aligned with the Congress-NCP combine in the state

Maharashtra’s 48 constituencies will vote to elect members to the Lok Sabha in four phases on April 11, 18, 23 and 29.

Congress party workers, on Friday, protested in Sangli to oppose the possibility of the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance’s support to a Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana candidate from the Sangli Lok Sabha constituency.

Once bitter critics of Sharad Pawar and his policies, the Raju Shetti-led Swabhimani Paksha, the political arm of the Swabhimani Shetakari Sanghatana (SSS), is now exploring an alliance with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.

The final call on the alliance will be taken in the state unit meeting on February 28 in Pune

The protest march started from Alka Chowk and via Fergusson College road it culminated at sugar commissionerate

Over a decade ago, Mane had quit the Sena to join the NCP

The Congress-NCP combine is holding backchannel talks with Prakash Ambedkar-led Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh. Leaders of the two parties had reached out to the Rajendra Gavai-led faction of Republican Party of India and CPI(M) on Sunday.

Chitale dairy, one of Pune’s largest suppliers, said it won’t be able to supply milk on July 19 but the other major supplier, Katraj dairy, said its collections were going smoothly.

Maharashtra government starts discussions with farmers’ outfit as protesters block state highways for all vehicles; supply unaffected so far because of stock in dairies, which is depleting.

Agitation to intensify with farmers, their cattle blocking highways; CM to meet milk societies

While consumers in Mumbai pay Rs42 per litre of cow milk, dairy farmers get Rs19-24 per litre, which is just Rs4 more than their production cost of Rs18 per litre.

Government officials said on Tuesday that supply may get hit in a day or two, if the strike is not called off.

BJP leaders said the party will react on the issue only after Shetti officially joins hands with the Congress.

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