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Terming the contented of “illegal Bangladeshis” arsenic a large contented against which the Maharashtra Government has taken up a drive, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) that an AI instrumentality is being developed on with IIT-Bombay to place “illegal Bangladeshis”.
“Right now, enactment connected the instrumentality is going on. It presently has a occurrence complaint of up to 60%,” helium said during a speech with prime journalists astatine the Chief Minister’s authoritative residence ‘Varsha’. He added that the State authorities has taken up a large thrust to region “illegal Bangladeshis” from Mumbai, and that the thrust volition proceed aft the elections arsenic well.
While speaking astir the upcoming Municipal Corporation elections successful Maharashtra, helium predicted that the BJP-led Mahayuti volition registry a triumph astatine 26-27 of the 29 Municipal Corporations going to polls connected January 15, 2026.
When asked astir the interaction of these elections connected the 2029 polls, helium said the BJP has already proven itself to beryllium the Number 1 party, but these elections volition marque BJP a large rod successful Maharashtra successful 2029. “Thereafter, authorities volition revolve astir BJP,” helium said.
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‘Raj Thackeray biggest loser’
“The code for this predetermination has already been set. And the code is for development, for change. It is improvement which has go the canvass plank. People are seeing what we tin deliver,” helium said, giving a database of infrastructure projects going connected successful the State. While speaking astir the confederation betwixt Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray, helium said that Raj Thackeray volition beryllium the biggest loser successful the alliance. “That is due to the fact that helium volition not get thing retired of being with Uddhav Thackeray. Raj Thackeray volition extremity up benefitting Uddhav Thackeray, but Uddhav volition not payment Raj,” helium said.
Asked if the Thackeray cousins were warring a conflict for survival, helium said, “Nobody tin decorativeness disconnected a party. People springiness you much sometimes, little sometimes. But if you bash not effort to bounce back, you won’t succeed. They did not adjacent enactment their prestige astatine stake.”
‘NCP-NCP SP confederation a section phenomenon’
Terming the confederation betwixt the NCP and absorption enactment NCP SP a section phenomenon, helium said it volition apt not beryllium taken up thereafter. “But 2019 has taught maine to not accidental thing firmly astir this. As of now, it looks similar a section improvement to me,” helium said, referring to the 2019 authorities enactment by the BJP-NCP, wherever the NCP walked retired of the confederation soon thereafter.
When quizzed astir the consolidation of the Marathi ballot slope owed to the reunification of Thackeray cousins, helium said that Marathi ballot slope was not a unified stock anyway. “We person the Marathi voters. MNS does not marque immoderate difference. In 2014 and successful 2024, we fought against Uddhav Thackeray. And yet, we got much votes. In 2014, 2019 and 2014, we got implicit 15 – 16 seats (in Mumbai successful State legislature). We can’t get those galore seats without the Marathi ballot bank. Our interest is the floating Marathi voters. We volition person to headdress that,” helium said.
‘Mumbai Mayor volition beryllium a Hindu, a Marathi’
Since the mayoral contented has taken centre signifier for the BMC elections successful Mumbai, helium spoke astir the look arsenic good arsenic the mayoral criteria. While predicting that the Mahayuti volition person a creaseless triumph successful Mumbai, helium said that it won’t beryllium indispensable that the biggest enactment volition get the mayoral position. “The politician volition beryllium to Mahayuti, volition beryllium a Hindu and volition beryllium a Marathi. The contented of a Muslim politician came up erstwhile Kripashankar Singh spoke astir a Hindi politician successful Mira Bhayander. AIMIM said the adjacent time that a ‘burqewali’ (a burqa clad woman) volition go Mumbai’s mayor. Shiv Sena UBT, which had attacked the BJP implicit a Hindi mayor, refused to utter a azygous connection against AIMIM. That is erstwhile we criticised them saying that a Khan volition go Mumbai’s politician if they travel to power,” helium said.
Ambarnath, Akot isolated incidents
Mr. Fadnavis was quizzed astir the canvass combinations successful Ambarnath and successful Akot. In Akot, the BJP had joined hands with AIMIM, among others, to travel to powerfulness successful the section body. In Ambarnath, it fought against its state Shiv Sena to effort to support it retired of power. Ultimately, Shiv Sena trumped BJP with the assistance of NCP and wrestled powerfulness backmost from the BJP.
“In Akot, it is technical. We had entered into an confederation with NCP. The NCP, successful a post-poll alliance, joined hands with others including AIMIM. When we realised it, we served a amusement origin announcement to our section person and withdrew from there. In Ambarnath, the connection which was going retired was that the BJP was warring against its ain state Shiv Sena. So erstwhile the Sena decided to signifier the section assemblage there, I told Ravindra Chavan to fto them spell ahead. I besides spoke with Eknath Shinde,” helium said.
When asked astir the weird governmental combinations successful the State for these section assemblage elections, wherever the Mahayuti components were seen warring against each other, starring acerbic idiosyncratic attacks against each other, helium said it was decided that determination volition beryllium nary idiosyncratic attacks. Terming Cabinet Minister Ganesh Naik’s idiosyncratic attacks against Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde arsenic ‘wrong’, helium said the determination was made by each the parties, but Ajit Pawar broke the regularisation successful Pune.
