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Ranchhodbhai Chanabhai Faldu is a Member of Legislative assembly from Kalavad constituency in Gujarat for its 12th legislative assembly and Jamnagar South in 14th assembly. He is a cabinet minister of Agricultural, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Transport field of Gujarat in 2017. He is from the Leuva Patel community.
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the Rs 200 crore Sardardham Complex built by the Patidars on Saturday, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was sent packing, sparking off speculations that the BJP will have to return to a Patel to head the government. The top contenders being discussed as Rupani’s replacements are all […]
In a much anticipated but sudden move Vijay Rupani resigned on September 11. He resigned just hours before he attended the (virtual) function with Modi, ironically the function was a Patidar event. Janvi Sonaiya spoke to Deepal Trivedi to find out about the latest on Gujarat Politics. Excerpts below: Why do you think Rupani resigned? […]
“Vijay Rupani’s remote control is with Delhi (Narendra Modi)”. When former Gujarat Congress president Arjun Modhwadia says this, he quite sums up the high-command culture that prevails in the BJP. This has been a favourite charge of the BJP on the Congress party for years. When Vijay Rupani was scalped on Saturday, he joined […]
Gujarat is Bharatiya Janta Party’s home ground and they can not afford to lose it at any cost. The party is involved in the relay race of chief ministers in Gujarat as a part of the remedy. Earlier former chief minister Anandiben Patel and now, Vijay Rupani had to resign before their term ended. To […]
Soon after 10.45 am on September 11, Kiritbhai received a call. His source told him. “Today is the day. Vijay Rupani will resign as Gujarat Chief Minister”. After confirming it, Kiritbhai posted the news to his Facebook page. And the rest is history. ‘Savaare cha, sanje Akila’, is a known phrase in Gujarat. It means, you […]
Dhaval Patel, an Ahmedabad-based journalist, was booked under the draconian sedition law on May 11, 2020, for writing a story indicating that Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani may resign over pandemic mismanagement. After spending 15 days in jail and being part of legal proceedings that went on till December last year, the court finally dropped the […]
History maker Parathlete Bhavina Patel, the future of Gujarat, was given a grand welcome at the Ahmedabad airport on Friday evening. She clinched silver medal at the Class 4 table tennis game held at Tokyo Paralympics 2020. Thousands – friends, fans, relatives – gathered at the airport to greet Patel, catch a glimpse of her […]
Brothers and founders of Chips Express Pvt Ltd, Vimal and Tushar Patel launched their ready to eat food packs Hungrill (meaning Hunger Will) in January 2020 and Covid-19 happened. But Covid-19 came as a boon for their newly established business of ready to eat food packs. “The food is not dehydrated or uncooked with instructions. […]
Counting Covid bodies, scaring away locusts, gathering crowds for political events of the ruling BJP, counting toilets, distributing foodgrains. There are no different State agencies in Gujarat doing this — it is the teachers. Yes, teachers in Gujarat are roped in to do this. And wait, this is not all. Hold your breath — there […]
Creative spirits moved across the room ushering the Elephant God on the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi. A display of some beautifully created over 100 paintings of Lord Ganesha adorned the walls of L&P Hutheesingh Visual Arts Centre on Thursday. The exhibition titled ‘Ganesha’ is organised by the Gujarat Women’s Artist Association and has on display […]
A few days back, Deputy CM Nitin Patel had spoken to Sufis about the ban on alcohol in Gujarat and told media that alcohol will be banned in Gujarat and bootleggers would not be spared. This video proves how the police themselves encourage bootleggers to sell alcohol. A video of a bootlegger from Vadodara has […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani signing an MoU with Amazon India on Tuesday to boost MSME exports has sparked off countrywide protests with the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) equating it with embracing the East India Company. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is about hand-holding and onboarding MSMEs in Gujarat on the Amazon […]
Lost in the celebration of UNESCO including Dholavira in Gujarat as a World Heritage Site is the fact that Ahmedabad is in imminent danger of losing its World Heritage City tag from the UN. Even when the 600-year-old Walled City was given the World Heritage tag on July 8, 2017, UNESCO experts were skeptical since […]
The government is claiming to crack down on rampant land grabbing mafias in Gujarat, but the reality on the ground is very different. Several villages in Gujarat’s Kheda district are entwined in a complex land scam where not only bogus documents were used, but the power of attorney too was faked. The villagers had submitted […]
When we entered L&P Hutheesing Visual Art Centre the atmosphere was meditative and so was the theme of the art exhibition. The Way of Buddha, a solo exhibition by Ragini Fozdar showcased handpainted works in acrylic colours. According to Ragini her core inspiration behind this theme was her father whose characteristics, according to her, match a […]
As many as 96 per cent of the workers employed in large-sized processing factories situated in Narol — a garment and textile industry hub in the south-eastern periphery of Ahmedabad – were employed without any written agreements. The workers paid either in cash daily or on a per piece rate, a survey by NGO Aajeevika […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been waxing eloquent about his government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative but his political party has been accused of not practising what he has been preaching. The BJP, it is alleged, distributed around 750 Chinese-made tablets in the party-state executive held under the shadow Sardar Patel’s towering Statue of Unity in […]
The dispensation that rules India claims Gujarat is a promised land of plenty and a model to emulate but the state’s abysmal record in child health stands in stark contrast to those big boasts. Ask Feriyal Suran, an auxiliary nurse midwife from Ahmedabad — and not some remote corner of Gujarat — if she often […]
An unfortunate incident should not be the deciding factor of a child’s future. Adoption is as fortunate a connection between parents and children as is birth or any other form of parenthood. The last Monday of the auspicious fasting month of Shravan turned joyous for Nathan and four-year-old Arpita. Found abandoned in a dump yard […]
