Gandhinagar: Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said on Thursday that Congress President Rahul Gandhi was “Made in Italy and has Italian blood in him”, scoffing at the latter’s remarks that the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Patel being built in Gujarat was made in China. Nitin Patel told reporters[Read More…]
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Vijay Rupani stays as Gujarat CM, Nitin Patel his deputy
Vijay Rupani will continue as the Chief Minister of Gujarat and Nitin Patel as his deputy, the BJP announced on Friday after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley oversaw a meeting of the party’s newly-elected MLAs. The legislators unanimously elected Rupani as leader of the BJP’s legislature party, Jaitley told reporters. He[Read More…]
‘Fools’ have accepted formula given by ‘fools’: Gujarat deputy CM
Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel lashed out at Patidar leader Hardik Patel for accepting the Congress formula on job quotas and supporting it in upcoming Assembly elections, calling him a “fool”. “Fools have given a formula and fools have accepted it,” a fuming Nitin Patel said. “I have not[Read More…]
Exclusive: Patidars irked over Amit Shah’s behavior towards their leader Nitin Patel
Just ahead of the Assembly polls in Gujarat, a video of BJP President Amit Shah along with chief minister, Vijay Rupani, BJP Gujarat President Jeetu Bhai Vaghani and Deputy CM and only Patel leader in the cabinet, Nitin Patel from Gujarat has surfaced and making noises. In the video, the[Read More…]
Withdrawal of Patidar cases: too little too late?
The Patidar community leaders seem to have rejected the olive branch extended by the state govt on Wednesday. “The decision by the state govt to withdraw political cases against us is a clear admission that these cases were fake and hurled at us just to weaken the movement. Withdrawing these[Read More…]
Cases filed against youth during Patidar agitation will be withdrawn: Gujarat Dy CM
Gujarat deputy chief minister, Nitin Patel, on Wednesday said that the cabinet has decided that the police cases filed against youths during Patidar agitation will be withdrawn. The cabinet held a meeting today to make concrete announcements about the Patidars. “The two announcements likely to be made are the constitution[Read More…]
‘Heavily drunk’ Gujarat Deputy CM’s son prohibited from boarding a flight
Early on Monday, Gujarat deputy chief minister Nitin Patel’s son along with his family were prohibited by the authorities from boarding a Qatar Airways flight to Greece after he arrived in a “heavily drunken” state at the airport and argued with the airline’s staff. As per sources, Jaimin Patel, his[Read More…]
Vijay Rupani is the new chief minister of Gujarat, Nitin Patel to be the deputy CM
Vijay Rupani has been appointed as the new chief minister of Gujarat by Bharatiya Janata Party. He has been chosen as Anandiben Patel’s successor, who resigned from her post citing her age and upcoming state assembly elections. Nitin Patel, who was being cited as another frontrunner, has been appointed as[Read More…]
Nitin Patel to take the reins as Gujarat CM: Sources
Following their meeting on Wednesday morning, the BJP parliamentary board has left the decision of the next chief minister to the legislature party in Gujarat. Senior party leaders Nitin Gadkari and Saroj Pandey have been appointed to travel to Gujarat on Thursday to hold meetings with state leaders. Amid speculations,[Read More…]