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  • One yr forward of Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s Gujarat basic secretary resigns from function

    By IANS

    AHMEDABAD: Gujarat BJP chief Pradipsinh Vaghela on Saturday stepped down from the publish of State basic secretary.

    He has been a long-standing supporter and member of the celebration’s state unit.

    Recently, Vaghela was chosen for campaigning in Karnataka throughout elections. A complete of 150 staff have been chosen from Gujarat for the marketing campaign.

    Singh mentioned that he has resigned as a result of private causes.

    Another chief Bhargava Bhatt had additionally resigned earlier. No particulars of his stepping have been revealed.

    There are few organisational modifications on the way in which, the sources acknowledged.

    Meanwhile, preparations for 2024 elections are already underway within the state.

    AHMEDABAD: Gujarat BJP chief Pradipsinh Vaghela on Saturday stepped down from the publish of State basic secretary.

    He has been a long-standing supporter and member of the celebration’s state unit.

    Recently, Vaghela was chosen for campaigning in Karnataka throughout elections. A complete of 150 staff have been chosen from Gujarat for the marketing campaign.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Singh mentioned that he has resigned as a result of private causes.

    Another chief Bhargava Bhatt had additionally resigned earlier. No particulars of his stepping have been revealed.

    There are few organisational modifications on the way in which, the sources acknowledged.

    Meanwhile, preparations for 2024 elections are already underway within the state.

  • First part of Gujarat Assembly elections in 89 seats tomorrow: All it’s worthwhile to know

    By PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Voting will likely be held on Thursday for the primary part of Gujarat Assembly elections in 89 seats unfold throughout 19 districts in Saurashtra-Kutch and southern components of the state the place 788 candidates are within the fray. Campaigning for the primary part of the elections within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state ended at 5 pm on Tuesday.

    Voting will likely be held between 8 am and 5 pm on Thursday throughout 14,382 polling stations, the workplace of the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) stated in a launch.

    Out of the whole 4,91,35,400 registered voters in Gujarat, 2,39,76,670 are eligible to solid their votes within the first part of the elections.

    These embody 5.74 lakh voters within the age group of 18-19 years, and 4,945 above the age of 99 years, the workplace of the state CEO stated.

    Out of the 89 seats going to polls within the first part, the BJP received 48 within the 2017 election, the Congress had received 40, whereas one seat was bagged by an impartial candidate.

    Who are contesting?

    Apart from the BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), 36 different political outfits, together with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) have additionally fielded candidates in numerous seats which can go to polls within the first part.

    The BJP and Congress are contesting in all of the 89 seats.
    The new ballot entrant AAP is contesting 88 seats. Its candidate from Surat East constituency had withdrawn his candidature, leaving the social gathering with one much less seat to contest within the first part
    The BSP has fielded 57 candidates, BTP 14 and CPI-M 4 candidates.
    As many as 339 independents are additionally within the fray within the first part of polls.

    Out of the whole 788 candidates, 70 are girls together with 9 fielded by the BJP, six by the Congress and 5 by the AAP.

    ALSO READ | How scrapped undertaking can damage BJP in Gujarat tribal seats

    Who are a number of the distinguished candidates?

    AAP’s chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi is contesting from Khambhalia seat in Devbhumi Dwarka district of Saurashtra area that goes to polls on Thursday.

    AAP state unit president Gopal Italia is contesting from Katargam in Surat.

    Among different distinguished candidates within the first part are Rivaba Jadeja, the spouse of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, who’s contesting from Jamnagar (North), and BJP MLAs Harsh Sanghavi and Purnesh Modi from totally different seats in Surat and five-time MLA Parshottam Solanki from Bhavnagar (Rural).

    Sitting Congress MLAs like Lalit Kagathara, Lalit Vasoya, Rutvik Makwana and Mohammad Javed Pirzada are among the many candidates in fray within the first part from seats in Saurashtra area.

    Seven-time MLA and veteran tribal chief Chhotu Vasava is contesting from Jhagadia in Bharuch.

    ALSO READ | Gujarat elections 2022: Morbi, Porbandar, Anand… listed here are 25 seats to be careful for

    Which are the important thing areas to look out for?

    With 54 seats, the Saurashtra-Kutch area will likely be essential for the Congress because it seeks to raised its efficiency.

    In the area, the Congress received 30 seats in 2017 in comparison with 16 within the 2012 election. The BJP, alternatively, was lowered to 23 seats in 2017 as in opposition to 35 received by it within the earlier election.

    In south Gujarat, the Congress in 2017 bettered its tally to 10 in comparison with six within the earlier polls, whereas the BJPs tally dropped to 25 within the final election from 28 earlier.

    South Gujarat additionally contains Surat metropolis with 12 seats which have remained the BJP’s bastion since a very long time.

    The BJP has this time discovered a challenger within the AAP which has fielded a few of its senior state leaders from Surat and hopes to win seven-eight seats within the metropolis, as declared by its nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal.

    Gujarat AAP’s state president Gopal Italia is the candidate from Katargam, normal secretary Manoj Sorathiya from Karanj and Patidar group chief Alpesh Kathiriya from Varachha Road in Surat.

    ALSO READ | Trust within the KHAP: How caste equations are on the coronary heart of the 2022 Gujarat elections  

    Who had been the campaigners?

    The BJP, Congress and AAP leaders held roadshows and addressed public rallies as a part of their high-pitched marketing campaign within the run-up to the elections.

    The ruling social gathering’s marketing campaign was led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president JP Nadda, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states together with Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Pramod Sawant (Goa), and a variety of Union ministers and state leaders.

    For the AAP, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejiwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann had been essentially the most frequent campaigners.

    Apart from them, Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Sosidoa and AAP’s Rajya Sabha members Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh additionally campaigned in Gujarat.

    The Congress banked on its native leaders for campaigning aside from Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and social gathering’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge, who held some rallies in the previous couple of days earlier than the primary part of elections.

    Congress chief Rahul Gandhi held two rallies within the state this month by taking out time from his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra.

    READ HERE | Bridge collapse to Bilkis Bano convicts’ remission: Top points in Gujarat Assembly elections

    How will the polling course of be carried out?

    Voting will likely be held throughout 14,382 polling stations, of which 3,311 are within the city and 11,071 in rural areas, the ballot physique stated in a launch.

    The election physique has arrange 89 ‘mannequin polling stations’, as many stations run by differently-abled folks, 89 eco-friendly polling stations and 611 run by girls.

    There are additionally 18 polling stations run by the youth, it stated.

    A complete 34,324 poll models, an equal variety of management models, and 38,749 Voter verifiable paper audit path (VVPAT) machines will likely be used for the election within the first part, the discharge stated.

    A complete of two,20,288 educated officers and staff will likely be on responsibility for the graceful conduct of the election course of, it stated.

    In the primary part, 27,978 presiding officers and 78,985 polling officers will likely be on responsibility, it stated.

    ALSO READ | Battleground Gujarat: All eyes on AAP in three-way ballot contest in bipolar state politics

    AHMEDABAD: Voting will likely be held on Thursday for the primary part of Gujarat Assembly elections in 89 seats unfold throughout 19 districts in Saurashtra-Kutch and southern components of the state the place 788 candidates are within the fray. Campaigning for the primary part of the elections within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state ended at 5 pm on Tuesday.

    Voting will likely be held between 8 am and 5 pm on Thursday throughout 14,382 polling stations, the workplace of the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) stated in a launch.

    Out of the whole 4,91,35,400 registered voters in Gujarat, 2,39,76,670 are eligible to solid their votes within the first part of the elections.

    These embody 5.74 lakh voters within the age group of 18-19 years, and 4,945 above the age of 99 years, the workplace of the state CEO stated.

    Out of the 89 seats going to polls within the first part, the BJP received 48 within the 2017 election, the Congress had received 40, whereas one seat was bagged by an impartial candidate.

    Who are contesting?

    Apart from the BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), 36 different political outfits, together with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) have additionally fielded candidates in numerous seats which can go to polls within the first part.

    The BJP and Congress are contesting in all of the 89 seats.
    The new ballot entrant AAP is contesting 88 seats. Its candidate from Surat East constituency had withdrawn his candidature, leaving the social gathering with one much less seat to contest within the first part
    The BSP has fielded 57 candidates, BTP 14 and CPI-M 4 candidates.
    As many as 339 independents are additionally within the fray within the first part of polls.
    Out of the whole 788 candidates, 70 are girls together with 9 fielded by the BJP, six by the Congress and 5 by the AAP.

    ALSO READ | How scrapped undertaking can damage BJP in Gujarat tribal seats

    Who are a number of the distinguished candidates?

    AAP’s chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi is contesting from Khambhalia seat in Devbhumi Dwarka district of Saurashtra area that goes to polls on Thursday.

    AAP state unit president Gopal Italia is contesting from Katargam in Surat.

    Among different distinguished candidates within the first part are Rivaba Jadeja, the spouse of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, who’s contesting from Jamnagar (North), and BJP MLAs Harsh Sanghavi and Purnesh Modi from totally different seats in Surat and five-time MLA Parshottam Solanki from Bhavnagar (Rural).

    Sitting Congress MLAs like Lalit Kagathara, Lalit Vasoya, Rutvik Makwana and Mohammad Javed Pirzada are among the many candidates in fray within the first part from seats in Saurashtra area.

    Seven-time MLA and veteran tribal chief Chhotu Vasava is contesting from Jhagadia in Bharuch.

    ALSO READ | Gujarat elections 2022: Morbi, Porbandar, Anand… listed here are 25 seats to be careful for

    Which are the important thing areas to look out for?

    With 54 seats, the Saurashtra-Kutch area will likely be essential for the Congress because it seeks to raised its efficiency.

    In the area, the Congress received 30 seats in 2017 in comparison with 16 within the 2012 election. The BJP, alternatively, was lowered to 23 seats in 2017 as in opposition to 35 received by it within the earlier election.

    In south Gujarat, the Congress in 2017 bettered its tally to 10 in comparison with six within the earlier polls, whereas the BJPs tally dropped to 25 within the final election from 28 earlier.

    South Gujarat additionally contains Surat metropolis with 12 seats which have remained the BJP’s bastion since a very long time.

    The BJP has this time discovered a challenger within the AAP which has fielded a few of its senior state leaders from Surat and hopes to win seven-eight seats within the metropolis, as declared by its nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal.

    Gujarat AAP’s state president Gopal Italia is the candidate from Katargam, normal secretary Manoj Sorathiya from Karanj and Patidar group chief Alpesh Kathiriya from Varachha Road in Surat.

    ALSO READ | Trust within the KHAP: How caste equations are on the coronary heart of the 2022 Gujarat elections  

    Who had been the campaigners?

    The BJP, Congress and AAP leaders held roadshows and addressed public rallies as a part of their high-pitched marketing campaign within the run-up to the elections.

    The ruling social gathering’s marketing campaign was led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president JP Nadda, chief ministers of BJP-ruled states together with Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam), Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Pramod Sawant (Goa), and a variety of Union ministers and state leaders.

    For the AAP, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejiwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann had been essentially the most frequent campaigners.

    Apart from them, Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Sosidoa and AAP’s Rajya Sabha members Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh additionally campaigned in Gujarat.

    The Congress banked on its native leaders for campaigning aside from Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and social gathering’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge, who held some rallies in the previous couple of days earlier than the primary part of elections.

    Congress chief Rahul Gandhi held two rallies within the state this month by taking out time from his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra.

    READ HERE | Bridge collapse to Bilkis Bano convicts’ remission: Top points in Gujarat Assembly elections

    How will the polling course of be carried out?

    Voting will likely be held throughout 14,382 polling stations, of which 3,311 are within the city and 11,071 in rural areas, the ballot physique stated in a launch.

    The election physique has arrange 89 ‘mannequin polling stations’, as many stations run by differently-abled folks, 89 eco-friendly polling stations and 611 run by girls.

    There are additionally 18 polling stations run by the youth, it stated.

    A complete 34,324 poll models, an equal variety of management models, and 38,749 Voter verifiable paper audit path (VVPAT) machines will likely be used for the election within the first part, the discharge stated.

    A complete of two,20,288 educated officers and staff will likely be on responsibility for the graceful conduct of the election course of, it stated.

    In the primary part, 27,978 presiding officers and 78,985 polling officers will likely be on responsibility, it stated.

    ALSO READ | Battleground Gujarat: All eyes on AAP in three-way ballot contest in bipolar state politics

  • Gujarat polls: BJP suspends 7 leaders for submitting nominations as independents after ticket denial

    By PTI

    AHMEDABAD: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat on Sunday suspended seven get together leaders, together with two former MLAs, for submitting nominations as unbiased candidates for the upcoming state Assembly elections after they have been denied tickets.

    The seven candidates are contesting from the seats that can go to polls within the first part of the elections scheduled to be held on December 1.

    The get together suspended former MLAs Arvind Ladani, who had gained from Keshod constituency in 2012, and Harshad Vasava from the Scheduled Tribe-reserved seat of Nandod, after they filed their nominations as independents from these seats.

    The BJP has fielded Dr Darshana Deshmukh from Nandod and Devabhai Malam from Keshod.

    The saffron get together additionally suspended Chhatarsinh Gunjariya, a district panchayat member from Surendranagar, after he filed his nomination as an unbiased from Dhrangadhra seat.

    Other suspended leaders embrace Ketan Patel, Bharat Chavda, Uday Shah and Karan Baraiya, who’ve filed their nominations as independents from Pardi, Rajkot, Veraval and Rajula seats respectively.

    The BJP, in a launch, mentioned, “These leaders have filed their nominations as independent candidates against the candidates declared by the party. They are being suspended on the direction of the state BJP president C R Paatil.”

    Paatil had earlier informed reporters that it’s a norm to droop leaders who search to contest as independents towards get together candidates after they fail to withdraw their nominations on the final day of withdrawal.

    Several BJP leaders have come out within the open to precise their unhappiness for being denied tickets and have declared to contest as independents.

    Six-time MLA Madhu Shrivastav from Vaghodia, who was denied a ticket, has additionally filed his nominations as an unbiased.

    The BJP has fielded Ashwin Patel from the seat.

    Another former BJP MLA Dinesh Patel aka Dinu Mama of Padra seat in Vadodara district has additionally filed his nominations as an unbiased.

    The BJP has given the ticket to Chaitanyasinh Zala on the seat.

    Both Vaghodia and Padra will go to polls within the second part of elections on December 5.

    The BJP has not but suspended the 2 former MLAs Shrivastav and Patel.

    At least 788 candidates are within the fray for the primary part of the elections to 89 seats, which shall be held on December 1.

    The second part of the polls for 93 constituencies shall be held on December 5 and the counting of votes for all 182 Assembly seats will happen on December 8.

    AHMEDABAD: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat on Sunday suspended seven get together leaders, together with two former MLAs, for submitting nominations as unbiased candidates for the upcoming state Assembly elections after they have been denied tickets.

    The seven candidates are contesting from the seats that can go to polls within the first part of the elections scheduled to be held on December 1.

    The get together suspended former MLAs Arvind Ladani, who had gained from Keshod constituency in 2012, and Harshad Vasava from the Scheduled Tribe-reserved seat of Nandod, after they filed their nominations as independents from these seats.

    The BJP has fielded Dr Darshana Deshmukh from Nandod and Devabhai Malam from Keshod.

    The saffron get together additionally suspended Chhatarsinh Gunjariya, a district panchayat member from Surendranagar, after he filed his nomination as an unbiased from Dhrangadhra seat.

    Other suspended leaders embrace Ketan Patel, Bharat Chavda, Uday Shah and Karan Baraiya, who’ve filed their nominations as independents from Pardi, Rajkot, Veraval and Rajula seats respectively.

    The BJP, in a launch, mentioned, “These leaders have filed their nominations as independent candidates against the candidates declared by the party. They are being suspended on the direction of the state BJP president C R Paatil.”

    Paatil had earlier informed reporters that it’s a norm to droop leaders who search to contest as independents towards get together candidates after they fail to withdraw their nominations on the final day of withdrawal.

    Several BJP leaders have come out within the open to precise their unhappiness for being denied tickets and have declared to contest as independents.

    Six-time MLA Madhu Shrivastav from Vaghodia, who was denied a ticket, has additionally filed his nominations as an unbiased.

    The BJP has fielded Ashwin Patel from the seat.

    Another former BJP MLA Dinesh Patel aka Dinu Mama of Padra seat in Vadodara district has additionally filed his nominations as an unbiased.

    The BJP has given the ticket to Chaitanyasinh Zala on the seat.

    Both Vaghodia and Padra will go to polls within the second part of elections on December 5.

    The BJP has not but suspended the 2 former MLAs Shrivastav and Patel.

    At least 788 candidates are within the fray for the primary part of the elections to 89 seats, which shall be held on December 1.

    The second part of the polls for 93 constituencies shall be held on December 5 and the counting of votes for all 182 Assembly seats will happen on December 8.

  • Congress calls Morbi bridge tragedy an instance of ‘BJP-created catastrophe’

    Express News Service

    AHMEDABAD: Releasing a 22-point cost sheet in opposition to the ruling BJP in Gujarat, Opposition Congress on Sunday alleged that the latest Morbi Bridge tragedy is an instance of a “BJP-created disaster”.

    The cost sheet made a number of allegations in opposition to the Gujarat authorities concerning the Morbi tragedy.

    “It is amply clear only BJP and its cronies are directly responsible for 136 lives lost in that unfortunate incident, it is amply clear that only BJP and its cronies are directly responsible for 136 lives lost in that unfortunate incident,” acknowledged the cost sheet.

    “The BJP government, adept at shielding the culprits in many such horrible tragedies, is at it again in the Morbi tragedy”, it added additional.

    According to the cost sheet, “Gujarat was one of the brightest stars of India’s growth story when Congress left office. The state has lost its growth momentum under the successive BJP governments.”

    Reading out the cost sheet allegation, Gujarat Congress former president Arjun Modhvadiya stated, “In 2020-21, Gujarat recorded a negative growth rate of 1.35%”. He added that the financial mismanagement by the BJP has led to a lack of confidence amongst buyers within the state.

    “In 2016-17, Gujarat accounted for nearly one-fourth of the cost of the projects sanctioned by the banks. In 2021-22, its share had halved, falling to 11.9%,” he stated.

    Gujarat’s Economic situation

    The doc additionally underlined the financial stress of households and famous, “Gujarat had the highest food inflation among all states in the month of August 2022”.

    The cost sheet additional alleged that “the meagre growth that the BJP government achieved has been fuelled by debt. The government is showcasing growth by mortgaging the state’s future. The state’s total outstanding liabilities have crossed Rs. 4,00,000 crores by the end of March 2022. The outstanding liabilities have increased three-fold in the past fifteen years.”

    Quoting the CAG report for the 12 months ending on March 31, 2021 cost sheet alleges that “In view of the increasing committed expenditure on one hand and revenue deficit on the other, the State Government would have to work out a well-thought-out borrowing repayment strategy to avoid falling into a debt trap.”

    AHMEDABAD: Releasing a 22-point cost sheet in opposition to the ruling BJP in Gujarat, Opposition Congress on Sunday alleged that the latest Morbi Bridge tragedy is an instance of a “BJP-created disaster”.

    The cost sheet made a number of allegations in opposition to the Gujarat authorities concerning the Morbi tragedy.

    “It is amply clear only BJP and its cronies are directly responsible for 136 lives lost in that unfortunate incident, it is amply clear that only BJP and its cronies are directly responsible for 136 lives lost in that unfortunate incident,” acknowledged the cost sheet.

    “The BJP government, adept at shielding the culprits in many such horrible tragedies, is at it again in the Morbi tragedy”, it added additional.

    According to the cost sheet, “Gujarat was one of the brightest stars of India’s growth story when Congress left office. The state has lost its growth momentum under the successive BJP governments.”

    Reading out the cost sheet allegation, Gujarat Congress former president Arjun Modhvadiya stated, “In 2020-21, Gujarat recorded a negative growth rate of 1.35%”. He added that the financial mismanagement by the BJP has led to a lack of confidence amongst buyers within the state.

    “In 2016-17, Gujarat accounted for nearly one-fourth of the cost of the projects sanctioned by the banks. In 2021-22, its share had halved, falling to 11.9%,” he stated.

    Gujarat’s Economic situation

    The doc additionally underlined the financial stress of households and famous, “Gujarat had the highest food inflation among all states in the month of August 2022”.

    The cost sheet additional alleged that “the meagre growth that the BJP government achieved has been fuelled by debt. The government is showcasing growth by mortgaging the state’s future. The state’s total outstanding liabilities have crossed Rs. 4,00,000 crores by the end of March 2022. The outstanding liabilities have increased three-fold in the past fifteen years.”

    Quoting the CAG report for the 12 months ending on March 31, 2021 cost sheet alleges that “In view of the increasing committed expenditure on one hand and revenue deficit on the other, the State Government would have to work out a well-thought-out borrowing repayment strategy to avoid falling into a debt trap.”

  • Battleground Gujarat: All eyes on AAP in three-way ballot contest in bipolar state politics

    By PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Long caught between two polarities, Gujarat’s electoral subject has expanded to incorporate a 3rd get together with the Aam Aadmi Party difficult the ruling BJP in addition to the opposition Congress that has misplaced floor however nonetheless has vital presence.

    Elections to the 182-member state meeting will happen over two phases on December 1 and 5, the Election Commission introduced on Thursday within the backdrop of the Morbi bridge collapse 4 days in the past.

    As marketing campaign knives get sharpened, the October 30 tragedy by which 135 individuals misplaced their lives may discover emotive resonance.

    Besides, the freebie versus welfarism debate – over which challenger AAP and BJP have been sparring over the past a number of weeks — and the ruling get together’s foremost ballot planks of Hindutva, ‘double engine’ development’ and continuity in governance are prone to stay centrestage.

    Though elections have been introduced as we speak, the thrill for what shall be a three-cornered contest has been getting steadily louder over the previous couple of weeks.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other Union ministers have been making frequent visits to the state. Modi was in Morbi on November 1 to assessment the scenario.

    And all eyes are on AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in addition to his get together leaders who’ve made a excessive decibel entry into the sector, giving voters a 3rd choice in a state that has for many years been bipolar in its politics.

    The elections are essential for BJP, which has received six successive phrases and goals at retaining energy in Modi’s dwelling state, in addition to for AAP, hoping desperately {that a} win in Gujarat will propel it to a pan-India political drive, the third state in its bag after Delhi and a victory in Punjab in March this 12 months.

    The Congress, on its half, hopes to finish its 27-year stint within the Opposition however has to date been quiet with its nationwide leaders conspicuous by their absence.

    READ HERE | Bridge collapse to Bilkis Bano convicts’ remission: Top points in Gujarat Assembly elections

    The BJP has 111 seats and the Congress 62 within the present meeting.

    The NCP has one, BTP two, Independent one and 5 seats are vacant, together with three after Congress MLAs resigned.

    With leaders of assorted events making a beeline for the state, a lot earlier than the announcement of the elections, and events firming up their methods, cities and villages of Gujarat are dotted with commercial banners and posters of political events.

    Modi, the BJP’s star campaigner, has elevated the frequency of his journeys to Gujarat and addressed well-attended gatherings in several components of the state in the previous couple of weeks.

    Several Union ministers and get together leaders fanned out throughout the state throughout the practically 10-day Gujarat Gaurav Yatras launched by BJP president J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

    Six yatras in several components of the states have been launched on October 12 and 13.

    Modi’s occasions have been marked by bulletins of growth tasks with a promise of extra.

    During his go to on October 19 and 20 to Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Rajkot, Kevadia and Vyara.

    he inaugurated and laid the muse stones of tasks price Rs 15,670 crore.

    His speeches dwell on the BJP authorities’s contribution to the event of Gujarat within the final 20 to 25 years.

    He has additionally been stressing on the “Narendra-Bhupendra” (Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel) ‘double engine’ combo for quick paced growth.

    Apart from state government-sponsored programmes, Modi has additionally been taking part in rallies organised by the BJP.

    However, it’s the third and late entry into Gujarat’s electoral subject, the Kejriwal-led AAP, that’s stirring curiosity with its aggressive campaigning and lengthy record of enticing pre-poll “guarantees”.

    The AAP is banking on ‘welfarism’, the truth that it’s a new different and its stress on daily individuals points to woo voters.

    Kejriwal has anchored his get together’s marketing campaign round a slew of sops, together with 300 items of free electrical energy per 30 days, free training in authorities colleges, unemployment dole, Rs 1,000 allowance to girls and month-to-month stipend to new legal professionals.

    While Kejriwal has been main his get together’s marketing campaign with a number of rallies and townhall conferences, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

    Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Raghav Chadha, too, have visited the state a number of occasions.

    The get together started campaigning a lot forward of the BJP and different events.

    The 10-year-old outfit has additionally left different events far behind so far as announcement of candidates are involved.

    So far, the AAP, which is prone to contest all 182 seats, has introduced names of candidates for 73 Assembly segments.

    The Congress is the unusually quiet, virtually absent, get together within the fray.

    Former get together president Rahul Gandhi, busy together with his Bharat Jodo Yatra that began on September 7 and can go on for practically 5 months, has remained largely absent.

    It just isn’t but clear whether or not the Lok Sabha MP from Kerala will be a part of the opposition get together’s campaigning.

    He final addressed a rally of get together employees in Ahmedabad on September 5.

    The get together has introduced earlier than Gujarat voters achievements made by its authorities in neighbouring Rajasthan.

    The foremost ballot planks of the Congress are inflation, unemployment, social concord and anti-incumbency in opposition to the BJP.

    In the absence of any nationwide leaders to date, the get together’s Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma has been frequenting the state and main its marketing campaign.

    State Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi stated the get together’s ballot marketing campaign is occurring in full swing and candidates shall be declared quickly.

    Some smaller events are additionally within the fray.

    Though earlier regional events fashioned by outstanding leaders corresponding to Chimanbhai Patel, Shankarsinh Vaghela and Keshubhai Patel contested polls, they did not make a mark with the state’s electoral politics centred across the BJP and the Congress.

    This time, Lok Sabha MP Asadudin Owaisi’s AIMIM (All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen) has introduced candidates in some minority-dominated seats and is prone to subject extra nominees.

    The Congress received the primary three Assembly elections in 1962, 1967 and 1972 in Gujarat.

    In the elections fought after imposition of Emergency in 1975, it misplaced to an alliance of events led by Morarji Desai, the Jan Sangh and insurgent Congress chief Chimanbhai Patel’s Kimlop get together.

    Two subsequent elections in 1980 and 1985 have been received by the Congress.

    In 1990, the Janata Dal and the BJP emerged as dominant forces.

    The BJP has received each Assembly elections from 1995 onwards.

    It has been in energy since, aside from a quick interval from 1996 to 1998 when its chief Shankarsinh Vaghela rebelled and fashioned a authorities with the Congress assist.

    AHMEDABAD: Long caught between two polarities, Gujarat’s electoral subject has expanded to incorporate a 3rd get together with the Aam Aadmi Party difficult the ruling BJP in addition to the opposition Congress that has misplaced floor however nonetheless has vital presence.

    Elections to the 182-member state meeting will happen over two phases on December 1 and 5, the Election Commission introduced on Thursday within the backdrop of the Morbi bridge collapse 4 days in the past.

    As marketing campaign knives get sharpened, the October 30 tragedy by which 135 individuals misplaced their lives may discover emotive resonance.

    Besides, the freebie versus welfarism debate – over which challenger AAP and BJP have been sparring over the past a number of weeks — and the ruling get together’s foremost ballot planks of Hindutva, ‘double engine’ development’ and continuity in governance are prone to stay centrestage.

    Though elections have been introduced as we speak, the thrill for what shall be a three-cornered contest has been getting steadily louder over the previous couple of weeks.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other Union ministers have been making frequent visits to the state. Modi was in Morbi on November 1 to assessment the scenario.

    And all eyes are on AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in addition to his get together leaders who’ve made a excessive decibel entry into the sector, giving voters a 3rd choice in a state that has for many years been bipolar in its politics.

    The elections are essential for BJP, which has received six successive phrases and goals at retaining energy in Modi’s dwelling state, in addition to for AAP, hoping desperately {that a} win in Gujarat will propel it to a pan-India political drive, the third state in its bag after Delhi and a victory in Punjab in March this 12 months.

    The Congress, on its half, hopes to finish its 27-year stint within the Opposition however has to date been quiet with its nationwide leaders conspicuous by their absence.

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    The BJP has 111 seats and the Congress 62 within the present meeting.

    The NCP has one, BTP two, Independent one and 5 seats are vacant, together with three after Congress MLAs resigned.

    With leaders of assorted events making a beeline for the state, a lot earlier than the announcement of the elections, and events firming up their methods, cities and villages of Gujarat are dotted with commercial banners and posters of political events.

    Modi, the BJP’s star campaigner, has elevated the frequency of his journeys to Gujarat and addressed well-attended gatherings in several components of the state in the previous couple of weeks.

    Several Union ministers and get together leaders fanned out throughout the state throughout the practically 10-day Gujarat Gaurav Yatras launched by BJP president J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

    Six yatras in several components of the states have been launched on October 12 and 13.

    Modi’s occasions have been marked by bulletins of growth tasks with a promise of extra.

    During his go to on October 19 and 20 to Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Rajkot, Kevadia and Vyara.

    he inaugurated and laid the muse stones of tasks price Rs 15,670 crore.

    His speeches dwell on the BJP authorities’s contribution to the event of Gujarat within the final 20 to 25 years.

    He has additionally been stressing on the “Narendra-Bhupendra” (Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel) ‘double engine’ combo for quick paced growth.

    Apart from state government-sponsored programmes, Modi has additionally been taking part in rallies organised by the BJP.

    However, it’s the third and late entry into Gujarat’s electoral subject, the Kejriwal-led AAP, that’s stirring curiosity with its aggressive campaigning and lengthy record of enticing pre-poll “guarantees”.

    The AAP is banking on ‘welfarism’, the truth that it’s a new different and its stress on daily individuals points to woo voters.

    Kejriwal has anchored his get together’s marketing campaign round a slew of sops, together with 300 items of free electrical energy per 30 days, free training in authorities colleges, unemployment dole, Rs 1,000 allowance to girls and month-to-month stipend to new legal professionals.

    While Kejriwal has been main his get together’s marketing campaign with a number of rallies and townhall conferences, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

    Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Raghav Chadha, too, have visited the state a number of occasions.

    The get together started campaigning a lot forward of the BJP and different events.

    The 10-year-old outfit has additionally left different events far behind so far as announcement of candidates are involved.

    So far, the AAP, which is prone to contest all 182 seats, has introduced names of candidates for 73 Assembly segments.

    The Congress is the unusually quiet, virtually absent, get together within the fray.

    Former get together president Rahul Gandhi, busy together with his Bharat Jodo Yatra that began on September 7 and can go on for practically 5 months, has remained largely absent.

    It just isn’t but clear whether or not the Lok Sabha MP from Kerala will be a part of the opposition get together’s campaigning.

    He final addressed a rally of get together employees in Ahmedabad on September 5.

    The get together has introduced earlier than Gujarat voters achievements made by its authorities in neighbouring Rajasthan.

    The foremost ballot planks of the Congress are inflation, unemployment, social concord and anti-incumbency in opposition to the BJP.

    In the absence of any nationwide leaders to date, the get together’s Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma has been frequenting the state and main its marketing campaign.

    State Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi stated the get together’s ballot marketing campaign is occurring in full swing and candidates shall be declared quickly.

    Some smaller events are additionally within the fray.

    Though earlier regional events fashioned by outstanding leaders corresponding to Chimanbhai Patel, Shankarsinh Vaghela and Keshubhai Patel contested polls, they did not make a mark with the state’s electoral politics centred across the BJP and the Congress.

    This time, Lok Sabha MP Asadudin Owaisi’s AIMIM (All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen) has introduced candidates in some minority-dominated seats and is prone to subject extra nominees.

    The Congress received the primary three Assembly elections in 1962, 1967 and 1972 in Gujarat.

    In the elections fought after imposition of Emergency in 1975, it misplaced to an alliance of events led by Morarji Desai, the Jan Sangh and insurgent Congress chief Chimanbhai Patel’s Kimlop get together.

    Two subsequent elections in 1980 and 1985 have been received by the Congress.

    In 1990, the Janata Dal and the BJP emerged as dominant forces.

    The BJP has received each Assembly elections from 1995 onwards.

    It has been in energy since, aside from a quick interval from 1996 to 1998 when its chief Shankarsinh Vaghela rebelled and fashioned a authorities with the Congress assist.

  • You gained due to PM Modi’s recognition: Gujarat BJP chief to native physique leaders

    Gujarat BJP president C R Paatil has mentioned the social gathering’s elected representatives of native our bodies should not neglect that they gained due to the “popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.
    Paatil made the remarks whereas addressing the elected representatives of assorted municipalities, district and taluka panchayats in Patan on Sunday.
    According a celebration launch issued on Monday, Paatil mentioned the elected representatives of those native our bodies should not develop into boastful and insult small social gathering employees by pondering that they gained due to their very own recognition.
    He warned of motion in opposition to the elected representatives who insult social gathering employees.
    “These leaders must not forget that they were also party workers before winning the polls. The elected representatives should keep in mind that they won only because of PM Narendra Modi’s popularity,” the discharge mentioned quoting Paatil.

    He additionally requested BJP leaders from Patan to gear up and make sure the social gathering wins the state Assembly polls due subsequent 12 months.

    On the event, Paatil additionally refuted the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) claims that a number of BJP employees had stop the saffron outfit and joined the Arvind Kejriwal-led social gathering.
    The ruling BJP in Gujarat made a clear sweep within the native physique elections held in February this 12 months by successful over 6,000 out of round 8,000 seats in numerous municipalities, district and taluka panchayats.

  • ‘BJP workers joining AAP’: Two events conflict in Surat

    The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have engaged in disagreement over the latter’s declare that a number of BJP employees in Surat have joined AAP within the current days. The BJP, nevertheless, termed the AAP’s declare as “false propaganda”.
    Several newly joined AAP members have posted on social media their images with the BJP metropolis president and receipts claiming their BJP membership.
    According to the AAP, a number of BJP employees in Surat, which is the hometown of celebration’s state president C R Paatil, have joined AAP within the final 15 days.

    AAP state spokesperson Yogesh Jadvani,”After the civic physique elections, over 1,000 folks, together with BJP employees and leaders, have joined AAP in several membership drives performed in Kamrej, Kasodara, Sarthana, Central Zone, Dindoli and Adajan areas of the town. In the Adajan space, which is a stronghold of BJP, over 400 folks have joined AAP. We are in a direct combat with BJP and our celebration is marching in the direction of changing into the second largest celebration in Gujarat.”
    “The BJP workers who worked hard to make the party strong for the last 10-15 years, are feeling insulted and dissatisfied by the decisions taken by the party leaders. So they are leaving the party with their supporters and joining AAP,” State AAP president Gopal Italia stated including that BJP shouldn’t be recognizing efforts of the celebration leaders and employees after they go away the celebration.
    Denying the claims, Surat metropolis BJP president Niranjan Janjmera challenged the AAP to share the main points of BJP members who joined them.
    In a press briefing at BJP workplace in Udhna on June 21, Janjmera, stated, ”Surat BJP unit has round 4.50 lakh major members (prathmik sabhyo). The seats gained by BJP (within the civic physique polls) had gone up from 80 to 93… This exhibits the acceptance of the celebration among the many public. The AAP Surat unit is falsely propagating that enormous numbers of BJP employees have left their celebration to affix AAP. There is likely to be just a few employees who go away the celebration earlier than and after the elections. Apart from this, no different BJP employee had left the celebration.”

    “The public meetings of AAP party in different areas have common faces… Even, when a private meeting is called at a private residential society, the AAP leaders reach there and click group photos with society residents and publish it on social media, claiming that all the residential society members have joined AAP.”
    Reacting to the “challenge” by Janjmera, AAP member Vipul Sakhiya and some others have posted their photos with the town BJP president on social media, together with “receipts” claiming their membership in BJP.

  • Gujarat BJP caps age restrict for holding posts in youth wing at 35

    Gujarat BJP has capped the age restrict at 35 years for holding a place in its youth wing, Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). With the imposition of the rule, three workplace bearers of the occasion’s youth wing in Rajkot metropolis and Navsari district, who’re aged above 35, have willingly tendered their resignations from the posts.
    The resolution, coming a 12 months forward of the state Assembly elections, was taken to make sure that these above 18 years of age “get aligned with the BJP’s nationalist ideology”, occasion leaders mentioned.
    The improvement comes months after the occasion launched a rule throughout the elections of native our bodies earlier this 12 months below which a celebration employee above 60 years’ age was not certified to get a celebration ticket within the elections.
    Under the management of Gujarat BJP President C R Paatil, newly appointed president of the youth wing Prashant Korat, has began appointing workplace bearers for the youth wing’s items in several districts and mega cities. The appointments have been made to round 35 of the occasion’s 41 youth wing items in districts and mega cities.
    Korat mentioned, “It has been decided by Gujarat BJP President C R Paatil to give main responsibility to people below 35. Therefore, it has been decided that president and general secretary (of the district and city units of the wing) must be below 35 years’ age…”
    Among causes for the choice on higher age restrict of 35, Korat mentioned that it has been taken to make sure that youths above 18 years’ age get aligned with the BJP’s nationalist ideology and to attain Paatil’s aim of successful all 182 seats within the 2022 Assembly elections.
    Paatil has been giving the goal of successful all 182 seats within the Gujarat meeting to the occasion staff within the common elections due subsequent 12 months.
    Korat additionally referred to the occasion resolution of setting higher age restrict of 60 for BJP staff to get occasion ticket to contest native physique polls earlier this 12 months. “In those elections, the BJP got historic victory and more than 91% of BJP candidates won from district panchayats, taluka panchayats, municipalities and municipal corporations. With that, party’s vote share has been more than 74%.”

    When requested the explanation behind the age restrict rule for the youth wing, Paatil mentioned, “The rule is there for the entire country from the central (party authorities). We are implementing it here strictly. I am not concerned if others (BJP state units) are implementing it or not.”
    Following the choice to implement the higher age restrict to carry an workplace within the youth wing, three workplace bearers – two in Rajkot metropolis unit and one in Navsari district unit – had been discovered to be above 35 years’ age. The three have reportedly resigned from the posts willingly.
    One of them is Pruthvisinh Vala, who was appointed president of Rajkot metropolis unit of the occasion’s youth wing in May. “I resigned from the post yesterday owing to the age limit after getting instructions from the Rajkot city BJP (authorities).”

    Vala, who’s above 36, was appointed to the submit within the youth wing in May-end. He mentioned, “I have willingly resigned from the post as per the age rule. And I have no resentment at all.”
    Korat mentioned that these three appointments had been made mistakenly and have been rectified with their resignations. He added that the three might be given different necessary obligations within the occasion.

  • Morva Hadaf Assembly bypolls on April 17 amid Covid shadow; three candidates in fray

    Amid a deteriorating Covid-19 state of affairs throughout Gujarat, the reserved Morva Hadaf Assembly seat is about for a by-election on April 17 with three candidates within the fray. While the State Election Commission in Gujarat, a physique that conducts native physique polls, had cancelled the April 18 elections to the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation as a consequence of a surge in circumstances, the Election Commission of India (ECI), which is conducting the bypolls, had burdened the Assembly constituency has a decrease price of infections.
    S MuraliKrishna, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Gujarat, mentioned, “As of now, we are going ahead with the preparations for the Morva Hadaf Assembly bypolls. Very few cases are being reported in that area. We are following all the Covid-19 protocols given by the commission and the government. We have taken all precautions. We had conducted eight by-elections with the same precautions.”
    The bypolls for eight Assembly seats have been held on November 3, 2020. On the identical day, 19 circumstances have been reported within the Panchmahal district. On April 1 this 12 months, the variety of new circumstances reported every day within the district rose to 25, and on April 14, it had nearly tripled to 73 new circumstances.
    Congress leaders mentioned two days in the past that they had despatched a letter to the ECI urging the bypolls to Morva Hadaf meeting be deferred. “We have made representations to the Chief Election Commissioner and asked him to postpone the bypolls. If elections to Gandhinagar civic corporation can be cancelled due to Covid-19, the same problem exists in Morva Hadaf, too. In fact, if anyone in Gandhinagar gets infected, they have access to health facilities in Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. But in tribal areas, like Morva Hadaf, the health infrastructure is poor, and people do not have access to good hospitals,” Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi mentioned.

    So far, each the Congress and the BJP have shunned organising any giant public conferences within the constituency as a result of present Covid-19 protocols, which ban giant gatherings. “We are not holding any public gathering. We are holding meetings in groups consisting of 10-15 persons. Multiple such meetings are held in one village before we move on to the next,” Doshi added.
    According to BJP sources, a call had already been made to not maintain public conferences for the bypolls. “It is largely a door-to-door campaign and meetings are held in small groups,” a celebration official mentioned.
    The BJP has submitted a listing of 30 star campaigners, together with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and state BJP president CR Paatil. The Congress submitted a listing of 24 star campaigners, which incorporates GPCC president Amit Chavda, Paresh Dhanani and Hardik Patel.

    Asked why the polls for Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation polls have been cancelled whereas the Morva Hadaf bypolls was not, Paatil had just lately mentioned: “Municipal corporation areas are congested and the number of (Covid) cases are more and so all parties requested for postponement.”
    For the Morva Hadaf bypolls, the BJP has nominated Nimishaben Suthar and the Congress has fielded Sureshbhai Katara. The third contestant is an impartial.

  • Gujarat denies Remdesivir provided to BJP-ruled states

    The Gujarat authorities Wednesday mentioned it has made roughly 25,000 injections of antiviral drug Remdesivir obtainable every day to Covid-19 sufferers in authorities and personal hospitals and people with critical signs within the state.
    The assertion got here even because the Uttar Pradesh authorities despatched a state airplane to Ahmedabad to fly in 25,000 models of Remdesivir from Gujarat. The consignment reached Lucknow by Wednesday night, a launch issued by the UP authorities said.
    The Gujarat authorities has, in the meantime, denied that the state was sending its inventory of the drug to different BJP-ruled states, calling such media reviews “baseless and untrue”. A launch issued by the state authorities Wednesday mentioned: “Reports circulating in some media today state that Remdesivir injection will be sent from Gujarat to other BJP-ruled states… These reports are completely baseless and untrue.”
    Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, who additionally holds the well being portfolio, instructed The Indian Express, “It (the injections have been sent to UP) must be on the basis of some tender with a manufacturer or supplier (here, in Ahmedabad). The (Remdesivir manufacturing) company must have given it, the Gujarat government has not. We are not giving it to anyone. Each day, the government stock (procured through the Gujarat Medical Services Corporation Limited) is supplied with approximately 20,000 units. This is separate from the open market stock.”
    Meanwhile, the Surat BJP workplace that had been distributing free Remdesivir injections since Saturday, stopped the availability following “shortage of stock”. The social gathering’s state chief CR Paatil had promised to distribute 5,000 doses sourced from Zydus Cadila however the social gathering had distributed 3,000 until Monday. An indication outdoors the BJP workplace in Surat mentioned the: “Stock has not come in today so nobody should crowd at the party office”.

    Ahmedabad homes the manufacturing plant of Zydus Cadila generic Remdac.
    Sources in BJP mentioned on Saturday and Sunday, 1,800 Remdesivir models had been distributed and 100 had been distributed on every of lately from the Navsari BJP workplace.
    Surat metropolis BJP normal secretary Kishor Bindal mentioned, “We have distributed Remdesivir injections on three days. A total of 3,000 such injections were distributed from BJP’s Surat and Navsari offices. After a controversy started by political parties, the company had stopped supplying the injections to the party office. We have stopped its distribution on Tuesday.”
    Meanwhile, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Wednesday put out an announcement that the civic physique has earmarked 10,000 Remdesivir injections for using non-public hospitals every day.
    AMC, presently, has 152 non-public hospitals with a complete provision of 5,903 beds requisitioned for therapy of Covid-19 sufferers. Apart from this, there are a complete of 11 authorities hospitals, 103 nursing properties and 21 covid care centres, with a complete capability of 13,142 beds for Covid-19 sufferers.

    The Gujarat authorities has authorised 9 hospitals throughout Gujarat to produce the injection topic to an in depth indent type, to personal Covid0-9 designated hospitals. For Ahmedabad metropolis, such non-public hospitals can procure the identical from the AMC-run SVP Hospital. Two different main hospitals in Ahmedabad — Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS), Sola — are solely administering the drug to its in-house sufferers.
    According to AMC, from April 1 to 13, “more than 4 lakh Remdesivir injections have been distributed across the state” and a complete of 24,962 doses had been administered to Covid-19 constructive sufferers in designated hospitals within the metropolis. —(With inputs from ENS Lucknow)