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Development of roads boosts transport and industrial growth: Chavan

He underlined the need to cut down the travel time between Latur and Nanded.

Liquor has become cheaper than fuel: Ashok Chavan

Thanks to price hikes, liquor has become cheaper than petrol and diesel in the country, Congress leader and Maharashtra PWD minister Ashok Chavan said here on Thursday. The former chief minister led a protest march against rising prices from Old Mondha area to the district collector's office. "Earlier, during our government, when fuel prices went up by a rupee or two, opposition leaders would launch agitations. Today they are in power and the per litre fuel prices have crossed Rs 100 and LPG cylinder prices have tripled," he said, addressing the protesters. This has led to the price of every commodity going up and transportation costs rising, the Congress leader said. "During the BJP regime, liquor has become cheaper than fuel," he added. He also said that it was up to the Union government to give reservation to Maratha, Dhangar and OBC communities. "Since the issue is before the central government, BJP leaders in Maharashtra are quiet," Chavan alleged. During the protest march,

Nitin Gadkari is right man in wrong party: Congress leader Ashok Chavan

Maharashtra Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Sunday praised Union Minister Nitin Gadkari saying that he is the right man in the wrong party

Cong sets up 5-member group under Ashok Chavan to evaluate polls debacle

Congress set up a five-member group headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan to evaluate the party's performance in the just-concluded assembly polls

Act against vaccine hoarders, not political opponents: Ashok Chavan

Maharashtra Minister Ashok Chavan has said the government should use the central agencies against hoarders of Covid vaccines and injections, instead of using them against the political opponents

Centre must take positive steps for Maratha quota, says Ashok Chavan

The Supreme Court is likely to hear the Maratha reservation case on March 8

Is BJP losing the plot in Maharashtra? Recent panchayat polls suggest so

Although the rural body elections were not fought on party symbols, going by the backing that the panel of candidates received, the MVA won a majority of the panchayats

Maharashtra's House of Cards

Book review of Trading Power: The Inside Story of How the People's Mandate was betrayed in the 2019 Maharashtra Election

Devendra Fadnavis misleading people over Maratha quota issue: Chavan

Chavan said the government's submission in the apex court on Monday was a reference to the GR issued on May 4

Maharashtra PWD minister Ashok Chavan tests Covid-19 positive in Nanded

The former Chief Minister's condition has been described as asymptomatic and he is under treatment in Nanded, his home town

BJP's behaviour more worrying than Coronavirus: Chavan on situation in MP

He added that the Congress was trying to find an antibiotic for it

Why poll results may spell trouble for Cong leaders who are close to Rahul

In the run-up to the polling for the Assembly polls, some Congress leaders said associates of Rahul had asked them to pick a side in the imminent battle between the younger leadership and the veteran

Cong presses for govt response on Naxal death threat to PM, Maharashtra CM

Police have claimed that ultras were planning to target Modi, while Fadnavis has said his office received two letters threatening him and his family.

Efforts on to curb individual's freedom of expression: Chavan

He was replying to a query on the police action against some people for posting their opinions on social media