Over 1,000 members of various Maratha outfits gathered in Maharashtra's Solapur city on Sunday, despite no permission from police, to take part in a protest march.
The BJP leader, Shirish Katekar, was forced to wear a saree and black ink was poured on him by some Shiv Sena workers in Solapur.
In a severe jolt to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Maharashtra government's caste validity committee on Monday rejected the caste certificate submitted along with the election affidavit by BJP's Solapur MP Jaisiddheshwar Shivacharya Swami, raising a question mark over his continuing as a Lok Sabha member.
A fire broke out near the airport in Maharashtra's Solapur city and quickly spread to its premises on Monday evening before being brought under control, but no casualty was reported, an official said.
The police questioned Ghuge, who allegedly admitted that he alongwith and his mother Jayashree killed Angadrao Ghuge, his father, as the deceased often quarelled with them over domestic issues.
Praniti Sushilkumar Shinde has been winning the seat since 2009 Maharashtra Assembly elections. She defeated Adam Narasayya Narayan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM with a margin of over 30,000 votes in 2009.
In the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly Polls, BJP's Subhash Sureshchandra Deshmukh won the seat by defeating Congress' candidate by a margin of 27123 votes. BJP, then, had a vote share of 40.29 per cent.
In the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Deshmukh won with the vote share of 56.39 per cent. He defeated NCP candidate with a margin of 68878 votes.
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