Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to the people to vote for the ‘Gujarat model’ of development and reject those who are against it. “To maintain the pace of development, I appeal to people to vote in large numbers,” Shah told reporters after casting his vote[Read More…]
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Second phase of Gujarat assembly polls begins
The second phase of state assembly polls began in Gujarat on Thursday. Voting has begun in 93 assembly constituencies across 14 districts in northern and central regions. There are 851 candidates in the fray. Special deployment of police has been made to ensure law and order. Elections are being held[Read More…]
BJP threatening journalists in Gujarat, Congress tells EC
The Congress on Wednesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was threatening journalists in Gujarat for airing Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi’s interview, and urged the Election Commission (EC) to take notice of it. Congress Spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said here that some journalists were receiving threats from high-level state[Read More…]
Who will take the rap if BJP loses in Gujarat: Shatrughan asks Modi
Taking on his own BJP party, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday asked the “one man show and two man army”, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, to return to Delhi from Gujarat if they have exhausted all their “tricks, tantrums, wrong statements and tall promises”.[Read More…]
Gujarat election: EC orders repolling in six booths today
The Election Commission on Tuesday ordered repolling in six booths, where first phase polling was held on December 9. The repolls will be held on December 14. Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat B.B. Swain said the poll panel has cancelled the results stored in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in[Read More…]
Congress confident of forming government in Gujarat: Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday declared that his party was confident of taking power in Gujarat and said the BJP was on a losing wicket. “The BJP has lost its position,” Gandhi told the media, a day after he was named the President of the country’s oldest political party.[Read More…]
Modi takes dig at Rahul, says all GST issues resolved
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday ridiculed the Congress for criticising his government over problems caused by the Goods and Services Tax and demonetization and claimed these issues had been resolved. He also took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Modi claimed his government had initiated the unique Pradhan[Read More…]
Congress asking who my parents are; do we talk like this even with enemy: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued his attack on the Congress party on Saturday, this time saying that the party was asking who Modi’s mother and father are. Addressing a campaign rally on the first phase polling day, Modi quoted a Congress worker, Salman Nizami, as questioning his ancestry. Modi, campaigning[Read More…]
Gujarat: Congress’ manifesto one of fiscal impossibility, says Arun Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday slammed the Congress party’s Gujarat poll manifesto as one of “fiscal impossibility” and its hope of winning as a “political improbability”. “Having no model of development, the Congress Party manifesto is one of fiscal impossibility,” Jaitley said. Jaitley in a Facebook post said the[Read More…]
Congress demands SC-monitored CBI probe into GSPC ‘scam’
Terming it a scam, Congress on Friday accused the BJP government in Gujarat and the Narendra Modi-led Central government of misspending Rs 10,651 crore worth foreign exchange in the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) and demanded a Supreme Court-monitored inquiry by the CBI in the matter. The party also called[Read More…]
Everybody is unhappy in BJP rule; we will win Gujarat: Congress’ Priyanka Chaturvedi
Gujarat is all set to face one of the toughest fights in the decades in this assembly election scheduled on December 9 and 14. While opinion polls conducted by different channels have anticipated BJP’s victory, it didn’t neglect the Congress’ huge influence that has been increasing by every passing day.[Read More…]
To address anti-incumbency, Amit Shah could be BJP’s CM face in Gujarat
In a last-minute bid to address anti-incumbency, BJP is mulling the option of soft projection of its national president Amit Shah as the chief minister candidate in Gujarat. In a high powered meeting held at the party’s Gujarat war-room, it was widely felt that while the Modi-Shah duo attracts immense[Read More…]
Unlike Modi I am human, thanks for pointing out mistake, Rahul tells BJP
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday thanked BJP for pointing out mistakes in his tweet question on Tuesday over inflation, saying that “unlike” Prime Minister Narendra Modi he was “human” and did make the odd mistake. He asked the BJP to “please do keep it coming”. “For all my[Read More…]
Modi’s three-day campaign in Gujarat begins today
Even as programmes of several political leaders were cancelled in Gujarat in view of cyclone “Ockhi”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to go ahead with his three-day visit to poll-bound state starting Wednesday. Earlier, prediction of Ockhi hitting the shores of Surat and elsewhere in Gujarat by Tuesday midnight[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi takes on PM Modi over youth unemployment, contract workers plight
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi for keeping the youth of Gujarat unemployed and not implementing the 7th Pay Commission leading to the plight of contract and fixed salary workers in the state. Keeping up at his 22 questions in the countdown to the[Read More…]
PM Modi to address four rallies in Gujarat today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will hold four rallies in Gujarat’s Dharampur, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Jamnagar, where polling is scheduled in the first phase on December 9. “Will continue the campaign across Gujarat. Looking forward to addressing rallies in Dharampur, Bhavnagar, Junagadh and Jamnagar,” Modi said in a tweet.[Read More…]
BJP indulging in violence against our Gujarat candidates: Congress
The Congress on Sunday alleged that BJP was indulging in violence against its candidates in Gujarat and urged the Election Commission to initiate an action against Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. “Our leaders Indranil Rajyaguru, Mitul Donga and MP Rajeev Satav, who are fighting the ‘Shah-kaal’ of fear and corruption[Read More…]
BJP let four private firms squander Rs 26,000 cr in Gujarat power scam: Congress
The Congress on Thursday alleged that the BJP government in Gujarat had let four private companies — Adani, ESSAR, Tata and China Light Power — to “squander” Rs 26,000 crore of the public exchequer by purchasing electricity from them at “unimaginably high rates” in a “huge power purchase scam” in[Read More…]
People of Gujarat would not forgive those ‘insulting its son’: PM Modi
Appealing to the Gujarat electorate as “son” of the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lashed out at the opposition Congress, saying that people of the state would not forgive those who are “insulting the son of Gujarat” who has never had a single blot on his political career.[Read More…]
Gujarat polls: Congress releases third list of 76 candidates
The Congress on Sunday released another list of 76 candidates for the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections. The names of 76 candidates were released for the second phase of elections. The Congress party on November 21 released its second list of 13 candidates for the elections. The Election Commission (EC) last[Read More…]
Gujarat wants to see outcome of 23-year rule, not 23-year-old’s CD: Hardik Patel
Gandhinagar: Hardik Patel, the leader of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), on Saturday said the people of Gujarat want to see what the BJP has done in 23 years rather than the video of a 23-year-old youth. Hardik, who had earlier threatened to drop a “bomb” against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)[Read More…]
Scare of Gujarat defeat led to GST slash, Shiv Sena attacks BJP
Last week’s decision of the GST Council to slash the Goods Services Tax on over 200 items was prompted by the “scare of defeat looming large” on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Gujarat Assembly elections, its key ally Shiv Sena said here on Monday. The BJP, which[Read More…]
Rahul sees ‘Congress tsunami’ in Gujarat, urges party to respect PM’s office
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asserted that his party will sweep the Gujarat state polls in December, as a “tsunami is coming and the (ruling) BJP is scared of it”, and exhorted his party not to speak low of the office of Prime Minister even while criticising the[Read More…]
SpiceJet to operate Ahmedabad-Bangkok flight from December 7
New Delhi: Budget carrier SpiceJet on Thursday said that it will commence a daily direct flight on the Ahmedabad-Bangkok sector from December 7, 2017. According to the airline, it will introduce several new non-stop flights on both domestic and international routes beginning December 2017. The expansion plan envisages the airline to[Read More…]
Fight between truth and lies in Gujarat, Congress represents truth: Rahul Gandhi
Terming the assembly elections in Gujarat a fight between truth and lies, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said truth lies with his party, and not the BJP. “This is a fight between truth and lies. On one side, it is Gujarat’s people, on the other 5-10 industrialists. Modiji[Read More…]