Akhilesh Sharma And Rohit Bhan

By 2 pm on Thursday, Bhushan Bhatt has clocked several hours at the BJP office in Ahmedabad, hoping for good news. Mr Bhatt is the incumbent lawmaker from one of the city's 182 constituencies. He is still not sure if the party will give him a chance to run again.

In Gujarat, where assembly elections are due later this year, the ruling BJP is pursuing a plan to embarrass the Congress and expose its weakness -it wants to prevent the re-election to the Rajya Sabha of Ahmed Patel, the political secretary to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. To ensure this, it's trying to team with local leader Shankarsinh Vaghela, w...

By 2 pm on Thursday, Bhushan Bhatt has clocked several hours at the BJP office in Ahmedabad, hoping for good news. Mr Bhatt is the incumbent lawmaker from one of the city's 182 constituencies. He is still not sure if the party will give him a chance to run again.

In Gujarat, where assembly elections are due later this year, the ruling BJP is pursuing a plan to embarrass the Congress and expose its weakness -it wants to prevent the re-election to the Rajya Sabha of Ahmed Patel, the political secretary to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. To ensure this, it's trying to team with local leader Shankarsinh Vaghela, w...