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One of the most telling images to have emerged out of the Gujarat elections involved Narendra and Bhupendra. It was a typical Narendra Modi roadshow before the rally. The flamboyant prime minister was the centre of attraction even as crowds lined up on both sides of the road, showering him with petals. The equally enthusiastic […]
Even before the oath taking ceremony on Monday, Visvadar’s winning AAP MLA Bhupat Bhayani, is all set to deflect to the BJP. The Sunday first half happenings are a significant precursor to a possible “Operation Lotus” underway. “I am here at Gandhinagar for some personal work,” he retirted to scribes who caught him at the […]
It was a busy weekend at Kamalam, the Gujarat BJP’s state office at Gandhinagar. Not long ago, in Septemebr 2021, Bhupendra Patel was little known here as an MLA from Ghatlodia who was to replace Vijay Rupani as the CM. After the historic win in 2022 Assembly polls, Patel is the man all are toeing. […]
Imran Khedawala of the Congress is the only Muslim candidate elected to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly in the just concluded polls, which saw the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) register a landslide victory. The outgoing Assembly had three Muslim legislators, all from the Congress. Khedawala, the sitting Congress MLA from the Jamalpur-Khadia Assembly constituency in […]
AAP’s Friday roadshow was a surge of yellow just before Gujarat wakes up to the second phase of elections on Dec 5. The party clearly knows its colour. But what is does even better is emerging winner. As Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann put it: “We do not align ourselves with any survey or poll outcome […]
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi tried to pull at the emotional strings of the voters in Ahmedabad’s Muslim-dominated Jamalpur locality yesterday. Gujarat votes for the second phase on December 5 and Owaisi was campaigning for AIMIM’s Sabir Kabliwala. Owaisi brought up Bilkis Banu’s plight in his teary-eyed speech. “May Allah make Sabir win so that injustice […]
Campaigning for the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections came to an end at 5 pm on Saturday. Polling will be held on December 5 for 93 seats in central and north Gujarat. In the second phase, including Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Patidar leaders Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor, Jignesh Mevani, Shankar Chaudhary and many […]
A voter turnout of 60.20% was recorded in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections on Thursday, covering 19 districts of Saurashtra-Kutch and southern regions of the state. The voter turnout on Thursday was less than 66.75% recorded in the first phase of the 2017 Gujarat Assembly polls. Barring a few incidents and reports […]
Days are coming to an end for campaigning for the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attempted to turn the tide in his favor by holding a roadshow in Surat. A day earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done a road show on this route. Like the Prime […]
Days ahead of polling in the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections, former BJP minister and think tank Jai Narayan Vyas on Monday formally joined the Congress, boosting the party’s morale. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot were formally present at the party headquarters in Ahmedabad to welcome Vyas and […]
After the Prime Minister’s 27 km long roadshow, and grand rally at Hiranagari, Surat, it was the turn of AAP’s convenor, Arvind Kejriwal. Arvind Kejriwal, who has been camping in Surat for two days, after meeting diamond entrepreneurs, once again wrote that Isudan Gadhvi, Gopal Italia, and Alpesh Kathiriya of Varachha are winning with a […]
In the second phase, 163 candidates, or 20%, have a criminal background. The second phase of voting for 93 seats will take place on December 5. There are 833 candidates in the running. In 2017, there were 101 candidates with a criminal record (12 percent). There are 92 candidates (11%) who have serious criminal cases […]
Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Raghav Chadha, a Rajya Sabha member and party’s co-charge for Gujarat, said the party will bring back the old pension scheme if voted to power in Gujarat. It has been a big demand of all government employees of Gujarat that the old pension scheme should be implemented, he said. Chadda further said […]
The Congress has alleged that the BJP “cheated” the people of Gujarat during the height of Covid-19 pandemic in the name of “free vaccination”. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Rajya Sabha MP and the All India Congress Committee spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil said that fake names of beneficiaries, bogus addresses, and fake mobile phone numbers […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addressed a public meeting in Khambhalia and said that Minister Bhupendra Patel was a “puppet chief minister”. “It has been 75 years since India became independent but to date, no CM has come from Khambhalia. Now, for the first time in 75 years, Khambhalia’s son Isudan Gadhvi is going to […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who came out with the slogan of change of power in the Gujarat assembly elections, did a road show in Amreli, Saurashtra. During this, Kejriwal once again playing the Hindutva card said that “When sin flourishes on earth, the one above lifts the broom. This time you need to lift […]
For three decades now, Gujarat has been BJP’s fortress. The party firmly entrenched itself in urban and semi-urban areas. As urbanisation picked up pace, the BJP could make Surat and Ahmedabad its critical power centres. Contrast this with the Congress that pales before the Lotus that has a majority in eight metropolitan municipalities. Now, the […]
The Ahmedabad district’s neighboring villages of Rojid were shaken on July 26 when a string of fatalities from drinking adulterated alcohol started to occur. 42 people lost their lives in this scandal, while 217 others were still treated at the Bhavnagar hospital in Ahmedabad. Many people experience vision loss. Rajesh Gohil, a Dhandhuka MLA who […]
The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) candidate from Surat (East) withdrew his nomination for the Gujarat Assembly election amid kidnapping allegations by AAP leaders. The AAP made a sensational allegation that Kanchan Jariwala was pressurised to withdraw his nomination from the Gujarat Assembly elections. The AAP allegation came hours after the party alleged that Jariwala was “kidnapped by the BJP” as he and his family have been missing since Tuesday. Tweeting […]
Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) founder and MLA Chhotu Vasava announced he will contest the upcoming Assembly elections as an independent from Jhagadia from where the party had earlier announced the candidature of his son and BTP President Mahesh Vasava. Chhotu Vasava, 77, who has consistently represented Jhagdia in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly since 1990 and […]
