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Several Congress leaders wished former party chief Sonia Gandhi on her birthday on Friday, with AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge saying her “indomitable spirit” in the wake of adversity has inspired millions. The former Congress president is in Rajasthan on her 76th birthday and is spending time with her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. […]
Of the 45 new candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Gujarat assembly elections by dropping the sitting MLAs, all but two sailed through. In a bid to nullify anti-incumbency sentiment, the BJP released 45 MLAs including former chief minister Vijay Rupani. The saffron party has been in power in Gujarat for 27 […]
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot welcomed the Supreme Court’s recent observation that it is the central government’s responsibility to ensure that food grain reaches the last man under the National Food Security Act. However, He said the Rajasthan government has been demanding that the Centre increase the scope of the NFSA on the basis of […]
A controversial private member’s Bill that seeks to provide for a panel to prepare a Uniform Civil Code was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. ‘The Uniform Civil Code in India Bill, 2020’ was introduced in the Upper House amid protests from opposition parties. BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena moved for leave to introduce […]
Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja shared an image with his wife Rivaba for winning the Gujarat Assembly election. The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Jamnagar North constituency bagged an over 57 per cent vote share. Jadeja tweeted that, “Hello MLA you truly deserve it.” Rivaba defeated her nearest rival, Karshanbhai of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by […]
The sixth edition of the Vedanta Udaipur World Music Festival, India’s largest world music extravaganza, will be held from December 16th to December 18th,2022. The focus of this year’s musical celebration will be the revival of forgotten musical instruments such as the Sarangi by providing an international platform for local musicians to showcase their talent. […]
Amid the ongoing friction between the Centre and the judiciary on the issue of appointment of judges, the Supreme Court told the Centre that collegium system is the “law of the land”. The top court said, “Making comments on the Supreme Court collegium is not very well taken.” A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan […]
News outlets the world over have widely reported on the ruling BJP recording a historic win in Gujarat. The party won 156 seats, decimating the Opposition. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the campaign to a record win on his home turf bringing the BJP to power for the seventh consecutive term. The Assembly poll win […]
The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2022, which seeks to strengthen the protection of endangered species and enhance punishment for illegal wildlife trade, was passed in the Rajya Sabha by a voice vote on Thursday. The Bill was introduced by Environment and Forest Minister Bhupender Yadav. Responding to the debate on the Bill in the […]
Five years ago, in 2017, Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani were the most-staunch BJP critics. This time around, while Patidar agitation leader Patel and OBC leader Thakor crossed over on BJP’s side, Mevani stood with the Congress. All three have won from respective seats, with perhaps the same concern for the scheduled and […]
It is a colossal majority with which Gujarat has thrown back the BJP to helm power in the state. Thursday’s results have created history of sorts. A seventh term for any party and that too with a record-setting mandate could only mean one thing: alls well with Modi’s Gujarat. There is no sign of voter […]
It is a straight 75 of 92. That is BJP’s strike rate in Gujarat’s hinterland. Just as one thought it was the “rubarn” (rural+urban) push that secured the party’s thumping success, a closer scrutiny of the results reveal that rural Gujarat has emerged BJP’s epicentre of power. In fact, the Congress is nearly decimated in […]
A reversal of roles worked well in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) favour. A huge section of the Patidar community voted against the BJP in the 2017 Assembly polls. Reason: the quota agitation. However, an analysis of the vote share shows how the saffron brigade has done exceedingly well this election. The BJP won almost all […]
One97 Communications, which operates under the Paytm brand, has said that the company’s board will meet on December 13 to decide on a share buyback programme. Paytm has Rs 9,182 crore of cash in hand and a large chunk of this predates its initial public offering (IPO). The announcement comes when the company’s shares were […]
Contesting his first Assembly elections, Sandip Desai, the BJP candidate from Surat’s Choryasi seat won by a whopping margin of 1.86 lakh votes—second only to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel’s victory margin of 1.92 lakhs votes from Ghatlodia. While Desai got 2,36,033 votes, AAP candidate Prakash Contractor became a distant second with 49,615 votes and Congress’s […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chemistry with Gujarat coupled with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s inimitable electoral arithmetic, has ensured the BJP’s historical win in Gujarat. AAP particularly played a major role in decimating the Congress to 16 seats. In the 2017 elections, the BJP had bagged 99 and the Congress had an impressive 77 seats. […]
The BJP is being hailed, and rightly so, for its magnificent victory in the Gujarat Assembly Elections on Thursday. It was also an election where several ‘protestors’ emerged successful. One such protestor is Hardik Patel, who became prominent through the Patidar movement. He joined the Congress and heaped criticism on the BJP, and has now […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he was thankful to the citizens of Gujarat for heeding his advice that the BJP should better its Assembly seats tally of 127 that the party won in 2002 when he was the state’s chief minister. Leading the victory celebrations at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, the prime […]
With the announcement of the results of the Gujarat Assembly Election 2022, leaders, office-bearers of the BJP from the region and the followers started assembling in large numbers at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gujarat region head office, Kamalam. The BJP office at Koba, Gandhinagar wore a festive look with everyone in a celebratory mood, dancing […]
He would win Gujarat as chief minister. Now he wins Gujarat as prime minister. Nothing has changed. The state remains the backyard of Narendra Modi where, along with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and a motivated party cadre, the BJP becomes an indestructible force. Modi, as usual, was the star campaigner and the crowd-puller. He addressed more than 30 […]
