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Vijay Rupani Frontrunner For Gujarat Chief Minister, But Not Default Choice
Vijay Rupani, outgoing Gujarat chief minister is seen as the favourite for the top post, but the BJP's performance in the assembly elections has thrown open the possibility of the party opting for someone else. As the state BJP waits for the arrival from Delhi of union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who will oversee the selection of the next chief ...
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'Kaun Banega Chief Minister,' Now Showing in Gujarat, Himachal: 10 Facts
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leads a central team of BJP leaders today to Himachal Pradesh, where they will meet the party's 44 newly-elected legislators. Ms Sitharaman will oversee the process of picking a chief minister after a peculiar problem cropped up for the party. It swept the election, but its chief ministerial candidate PK Dhumal l...
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Reply To Opposition's Negativity, PM Modi Tells Gujarat Voters As Campaign Ends
After his road show was cancelled on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took off from the Sabarmati river on a seaplane to Mehsana, where he offered prayers at a temple, before flying back to Ahmedabad. He stood on the footboard of the plane as it took off waving to the crowds that stood cheering on the banks of the river. After de-boarding, he ...
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See Difference In Response To 26/11 And Uri, Says PM In Gujarat: 10 Facts
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today compared the previous Congress government's response to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks nine years ago to his own government's response to the attack by Pakistani terrorists on a military base in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri last year, which provoked surgical strikes by India. "India was attacked on 26/11 and in Uri. Y...
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Jignesh Mevani To Go Solo In Gujarat Elections, But Has A Request For Congress
Young Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani has said he will contest next month's Gujarat assembly elections as an Independent candidate from Vadgam in north Gujarat, a seat reserved for scheduled caste (SC) candidates.
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Hardik Patel-Congress Formula For Patidars Not Legally Tenable, Says BJP
For Hardik Patel it was never about ensuring reservation for the Patidars, alleged Gujarat's deputy chief minister Nitin Patel of the BJP today, accusing the 24-year-old activist of a sell-out after he announced his support for the Congress in next month's Gujarat elections.
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Hardik Patel Backs Congress After All, Explains Details Of Pact: 10 Facts
Hours after denouncing the Congress "the same as the BJP", young Gujarat leader Hardik Patel has announced that he will continue to back the party despite a behind-the-scenes dispute over how many candidates he is allowed to field in next month's election. The Congress, he said, has offered an acceptable solution for how to include Patels as ben...
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Hardik Patel Is MIA As Congress Plays Hardball In Gujarat
Hardik Patel, seemingly caught between a rock and a hard place, cancelled a press conference in Ahmedabad this morning that his closest aides had said he would hold. Yesterday he had cancelled a rally in Rajkot amid apparent chaos in his PAAS or Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti over a proposed seat-sharing deal with the Congress for next month's Gujar...
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'Are Temples Off-Limits For Me?' Rahul Gandhi On 'Soft Hindutva' Allegations
After arriving in the small town of Mandvi in Surat in his campaign bus, Rahul Gandhi visited a temple nearby.
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'Mr Dalit' Protest On WhatsApp After Attacks in Gujarat Over Moustache
Digant Maheria, 17, was walking back from school in Gujarat's Limbodara village on Tuesday when two unidentified men drove up on a motorcycle and slashed his back with a blade. Digant is a cousin of Piyush Parmar, one of two Dalit men who were beaten up in the village last week for wearing a moustache. The attackers were allegedly Rajput men who sa...
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Hardik Patel Welcomes Rahul Gandhi, Congress Eyes Patidar Vote In Gujarat
Hardik Patel, the 24-year-old face of the Patel or Patidar agitation in Gujarat, this morning welcomed Rahul Gandhi in a tweet as the Congress vice-president arrived in the state for a three-day election campaign tour in the politically significant Saurashtra region.
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Ahead Of PM Narendra Modi's Birthday, BJP Worker Wants People To Take A Pledge
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday on September 17, a BJP worker in Gujarat is distributing pamphlets urging people to take a pledge that they will not criticise the administration "that is formed of the people, by the people and for the people".
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Gulp. CCTV Shows Evening Stroll Of Gir Lions Through Village
Villagers in Saurashtra who live near the famous Gir sanctuary in Gujarat found 12 lions walking through their neighbourhood on Tuesday night.
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Ahmed Patel Needs 44: How Numbers Stack Up
As Gujarat legislator Karamsinh Makwana voted in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha election on Tuesday, he refused to show his ballot paper to the polling agent sparking speculation that he has cross-voted. Mr Makwana is one of the 44 Congress legislators just back from a luxury stay at a Bengaluru resort and who senior party leader Ahmed Patel is counting o...
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BJP Game Plan To Trip Congress' Ahmed Patel In Rajya Sabha Election In Gujarat
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...
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Vijay Rupani Frontrunner For Gujarat Chief Minister, But Not Default Choice
Vijay Rupani, outgoing Gujarat chief minister is seen as the favourite for the top post, but the BJP's performance in the assembly elections has thrown open the possibility of the party opting for someone else. As the state BJP waits for the arrival from Delhi of union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who will oversee the selection of the next chief ...
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'Kaun Banega Chief Minister,' Now Showing in Gujarat, Himachal: 10 Facts
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leads a central team of BJP leaders today to Himachal Pradesh, where they will meet the party's 44 newly-elected legislators. Ms Sitharaman will oversee the process of picking a chief minister after a peculiar problem cropped up for the party. It swept the election, but its chief ministerial candidate PK Dhumal l...
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Reply To Opposition's Negativity, PM Modi Tells Gujarat Voters As Campaign Ends
After his road show was cancelled on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took off from the Sabarmati river on a seaplane to Mehsana, where he offered prayers at a temple, before flying back to Ahmedabad. He stood on the footboard of the plane as it took off waving to the crowds that stood cheering on the banks of the river. After de-boarding, he ...
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See Difference In Response To 26/11 And Uri, Says PM In Gujarat: 10 Facts
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today compared the previous Congress government's response to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks nine years ago to his own government's response to the attack by Pakistani terrorists on a military base in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri last year, which provoked surgical strikes by India. "India was attacked on 26/11 and in Uri. Y...
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Jignesh Mevani To Go Solo In Gujarat Elections, But Has A Request For Congress
Young Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani has said he will contest next month's Gujarat assembly elections as an Independent candidate from Vadgam in north Gujarat, a seat reserved for scheduled caste (SC) candidates.
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Hardik Patel-Congress Formula For Patidars Not Legally Tenable, Says BJP
For Hardik Patel it was never about ensuring reservation for the Patidars, alleged Gujarat's deputy chief minister Nitin Patel of the BJP today, accusing the 24-year-old activist of a sell-out after he announced his support for the Congress in next month's Gujarat elections.
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Hardik Patel Backs Congress After All, Explains Details Of Pact: 10 Facts
Hours after denouncing the Congress "the same as the BJP", young Gujarat leader Hardik Patel has announced that he will continue to back the party despite a behind-the-scenes dispute over how many candidates he is allowed to field in next month's election. The Congress, he said, has offered an acceptable solution for how to include Patels as ben...
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Hardik Patel Is MIA As Congress Plays Hardball In Gujarat
Hardik Patel, seemingly caught between a rock and a hard place, cancelled a press conference in Ahmedabad this morning that his closest aides had said he would hold. Yesterday he had cancelled a rally in Rajkot amid apparent chaos in his PAAS or Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti over a proposed seat-sharing deal with the Congress for next month's Gujar...
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'Are Temples Off-Limits For Me?' Rahul Gandhi On 'Soft Hindutva' Allegations
After arriving in the small town of Mandvi in Surat in his campaign bus, Rahul Gandhi visited a temple nearby.
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'Mr Dalit' Protest On WhatsApp After Attacks in Gujarat Over Moustache
Digant Maheria, 17, was walking back from school in Gujarat's Limbodara village on Tuesday when two unidentified men drove up on a motorcycle and slashed his back with a blade. Digant is a cousin of Piyush Parmar, one of two Dalit men who were beaten up in the village last week for wearing a moustache. The attackers were allegedly Rajput men who sa...
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Hardik Patel Welcomes Rahul Gandhi, Congress Eyes Patidar Vote In Gujarat
Hardik Patel, the 24-year-old face of the Patel or Patidar agitation in Gujarat, this morning welcomed Rahul Gandhi in a tweet as the Congress vice-president arrived in the state for a three-day election campaign tour in the politically significant Saurashtra region.
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Ahead Of PM Narendra Modi's Birthday, BJP Worker Wants People To Take A Pledge
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday on September 17, a BJP worker in Gujarat is distributing pamphlets urging people to take a pledge that they will not criticise the administration "that is formed of the people, by the people and for the people".
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Gulp. CCTV Shows Evening Stroll Of Gir Lions Through Village
Villagers in Saurashtra who live near the famous Gir sanctuary in Gujarat found 12 lions walking through their neighbourhood on Tuesday night.
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Ahmed Patel Needs 44: How Numbers Stack Up
As Gujarat legislator Karamsinh Makwana voted in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha election on Tuesday, he refused to show his ballot paper to the polling agent sparking speculation that he has cross-voted. Mr Makwana is one of the 44 Congress legislators just back from a luxury stay at a Bengaluru resort and who senior party leader Ahmed Patel is counting o...
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BJP Game Plan To Trip Congress' Ahmed Patel In Rajya Sabha Election In Gujarat
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...
