As many as 40 newly-elected MLAs in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly have criminal cases pending against them as per their election affidavits, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the Gujarat Election Watch. Of these 40 MLAs, 29 members (16 per cent of a total 182) are facing[Read More…]
AAP MLA Bhupat Bhayani was elected to the assembly from Junagadh district’s Visavadar.
Khedawala, the sitting Congress MLA from the Jamalpur-Khadia Assembly constituency in Ahmedabad city, won the election by a margin of 13,658 votes on Thursday to retain the seat.
The officials informed that the family members and locals have demanded the accused be punished soon. Further details are awaited.
The battle of ballots in Limbayat assembly turned interesting curious when the BJP named Sangita Patil as its candidate from the seat despite strong anti-incumbency.
According to an exit poll conducted by Zee News, the BJP could win between 110 and 125 of Gujarat’s 182 legislative seats.
Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat P Bharathi stated that there will be 182 counting observers, 182 election officials, and 494 assistant election officers on duty during the counting process.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel, were two of the political heavy hitters who cast their ballots early on Monday morning.
The voting began at 8 am today. The voting percentage was at 4.75 per cent till 9 am.
PM Modi made these remarks after casting his vote in Ahmedabad’s Nishan Public School in Ranip where he spoke to the reporters for a brief period.
Patel cast his vote at Polling Booth 264 in Chandranagar Primary School.
Voting for the second phase of the Assembly elections is underway. The voter turnout in the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly polls till 9 am was at 4.75 per cent, according to the Election Commission data on Monday.
In the 2017 elections, the BJP won 37 seats and the Congress 22, while two seats went to independents in the central Gujarat region, where 10 seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) and three for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates.
Voting for 89 seats spread across 19 districts of Kutch, Saurashtra and South Gujarat will be held on Thursday.
The BJP had won the seat in 2007 and 2012 but lost to the Congress in a bypoll in 2014. The opposition party retained the seat in 2017.
Flying of drones near the venue had been banned by the district collector for security reasons.
Viramgam Assembly segment, which comprises Viramgam, Mandal and Detroj talukas of Ahmedabad, has been with the Congress for the last 10 years. This and 92 other seats will go to polls in the second phase on December 5.
The state has been a BJP stronghold for a long period and the party has set its sight on returning to power with a handsome majority this time as well.
Addressing a rally in Valsad district in the run-up to the next month’s Assembly elections, Modi said Gujarati people have never hurt anybody and embraced whoever comes to Gujarat.
The former Leader of Opposition in the Assembly is also facing challenge from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which is expected to eat into the Congress’s traditional vote banks.
The BJP is eyeing a seventh straight term in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah, where a triangular contest among BJP, Congress and AAP is shaping up.
The court observed that even after the term was over on June 15, 2017, Ajanta (Oreva Group) continued to maintain and manage the bridge even in the absence of any agreement.
The Nationalist Congress Party’s lone Gujarat MLA Kandhal Jadeja resigned from the party on Monday after he was denied a ticket for the next month’s Assembly polls. Hours later, he joined Samajwadi Party and filed a nomination from home turf Kutiyana. The development comes on the last day of filing[Read More…]
There were at least 16 seats in the previous Assembly elections in Gujarat where the victory margin was less than 3,000 votes that affected
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will contest the elections from the Ghatlodia constituency.