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Jignesh Mevani. one of the three firebrand youth leaders that emerged on the political landscape of Gujarat along with Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor, entered electoral politics as an extension of his activism. He fought and won the Vadgam seat in North Gujarat in 2017 as an independent candidate, supported by Congress. Jignesh Mevani since […]
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 […]
Poll hotbed Gujarat has seen much rhetoric and drama in the run-up to the elections. With derogatory jibes to personal comments, this ballot will be remembered more for the anecdotal swipes, less for the usual pre-poll promises. However, just as the first phase ended and the state is poised to cast its mandate in the […]
The polling for 93 seats in the second phase of the Assembly election in Gujarat, a BJP bastion since 1995, shall take place on Monday, December 5. These constituencies including Ghatlodia, Vadgam, Viramgam, Godhra and Ellisbridge are spread across 14 districts of the state. Here are five key contests: Ghatlodia: Bhupendra Patel (BJP) vs Amee […]
A total of 788 candidates are in the fray for 89 seats across 19 districts of south Gujarat and Kutch-Saurashtra regions, where voting will be held for the first phase of Gujarat Assembly elections today. The state, which has traditionally witnessed a bipolar contest between the ruling BJP and Congress, has a third player this […]
The BJP’s candidate from Viramgam, Hardik Patel, who till recently was swarmed with as many as 20 FIRs after leading legions of Patidars in the agitation to demand the OBC quota and even spent nine months in prison on sedition charges, seems to have been white-washed by the party. “He is a well-known, publicly accepted […]
The Election Commission has removed an Uttar Pradesh Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer as a general observer for the Gujarat assembly elections for engaging in a ‘publicity stunt’ by posting pictures of his assignment on Instagram. The EC stated in a strongly worded letter to Gujarat’s chief electoral officer on Friday that the 2011 batch […]
In the run-up to the upcoming assembly elections, all three major political parties in the fray have announced the lists of candidates for most of the seats. Normally a two-party contest between Congress and BJP, but this time around the election battle will see the third entrant in AAP. While going through the lists of […]
Local MLAs in the Gujarat Pradesh Congress protested at the Gujarat Pradesh Congress headquarters, demanding that Thakor Samaj be given seats in the Viramgam assembly. The BJP gave a ticket to Hardik Patel from Viramgam, while Lakha Bharwad is currently the Congress MLA. 63-year-old Lakha Bharwad defeated BJP candidate Tejshree Patel by 6,500 votes in […]
Winnability and caste combination remains the prime criteria for the BJP in Gujarat, as it appears from the first list of 160 candidates that the Party declared on Thursday. Also, the first list has a clear, authoritative stamp of selection of none other than Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Gujarat has 182 Assembly constituencies that […]
In the first list released by the BJP for the Gujarat Assembly elections, 160 out of 182 candidates have been announced. 14 seats were given to Women in the first list. The women who have been given tickets include Matali Maheshwari from Gandhidham, Geeta Jadeja from Gondal, Sangeeta Patil from Limbayat, Nimisha Suthar from Morva […]
Aam Aadmi Party’s Gujarat chief and Surat’s Katargam assembly seat candidate Gopal Italia is one of the young leaders who made a mark with his struggle. Italia was associated with the Patidar movement in 2015–2016, but he wasn’t its active front-line leader. Like a common Patidar youth, despite being a government employee, he went against […]
The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), launched by Hardik Patel in 2015 to demand reservation for the Patidars, appears to be fading. Most of the leading faces of the protest have joined political parties and are exploring how to wind it up. Last month, after Alpesh Katheriya and Dharmik Malaviya joined the Aam Aadmi Party […]
Aam Aadmi Party has released its eleventh list of candidates for the Gujarat Assembly elections. In this list, twelve candidates have been announced. So far, the Aam Aadmi Party has revealed the names of 151 candidates. Malviya and Alpesh Kathiria have been handed tickets by the AAP. In the eleventh list, Aam Aadmi Party has […]
In Gujarat, a state where the BJP and the Congress have historically engaged in a two-party battle, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s entry into the race has raised questions about what it could imply for next month’s Assembly elections. Will the AAP harm the Congress’ chances by splitting anti-BJP votes? Or will it be able […]
Expecting the BJP to garner the highest number of seats, in nearly two decades, in the upcoming Gujarat elections, bookies are eyeing the turnover in the illegal market to touch nearly ₹40,000-50,000 crore. The Gujarat elections have been scheduled in two phases on December 1 and 5 and the results will be declared on December […]
In a quick development across the two parties-the BJP and Congress, drastic transformations appeared just in a matter of days- “Former Gujarat Youth Congress president Vishwanathsinh Vaghela joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on September 6, 2022, two days after quitting his post, whereas the Congress immediately announced the party’s national secretary for ‘Youth Wing’ […]
Seven Gujarat Congress MLAs cross-voted during the Presidential election. The opposition Presidential candidate, Yashwant Sinha, only received 57 votes instead of 67. The Gujarat Congress is concerned with cross-voting by seven Congress MLAs. The 182-member Gujarat Assembly has 178 MLAs, 111 from the BJP, 63 from the Congress, 2 from the Bharatiya Tribal Party, 1 […]
A surge of hand foot mouth disease in infants across India, especially in Gujarat, created such havoc a primary school in Ahmedabad had to shut down due to the fear of the outbreak. A frequent infection in kids called hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) results in blisters or rashes on their hands, feet, legs, […]
He is a man who is an MP but known all across the country. There are two reasons for this. One, C R Paatil, a three-time MP, won the Loksabha elections in 2019 from Navsari with a victory margin of over 6.89 lacs which is the highest victory margin of all candidates in the Loksabha. […]
