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  • BJP’s inside strife over price tag distribution grows more potent after moment listing bulletins in Gujarat

    Through Specific Information Provider

    AHMEDABAD: Whilst the previous Matar MLA Kesrisinh Solanki returned to the BJP fold inside of 48 hours of becoming a member of AAP, employees and supporters of MLA Jankhana Patel took to the streets in Choryasi in Surat on Saturday after BJP changed Patel with Sandeep Desai because it introduced the 2nd Candidate listing of six folks for the state legislative meeting elections to be held in December.

    The knowledge finds that Jankhana Patel gained the seat with one of the vital best possible margins recorded in 2017. She gained by means of a victory margin of over one lakh votes. She is the second-highest-margin winner after CM Bhupendra Patel.

    In Surat, the saffron celebration is witnessing some critical dissatisfaction over employees’ post-seat allocation.

    BJP releases an inventory of 6 applicants to contest the approaching Gujarat #AssemblyPolls2022 percent.twitter.com/ELQyIGkYSL

    — ANI (@ANI) November 12, 2022

    BJP Chief of Surat Yajuvendra Dube stated “Hindi-speaking Electorate and Koli group citizens are dominating within the Choryasi seat. Jhankhna Patel belongs to the Koli group. Even supposing she gained by means of a document margin, her title is dropped from the listing. We aren’t ready to grasp the rationale,”

    “Although the celebration needs to switch the candidate then the price tag must had been given in step with caste equations. Possibly as a result of this, there’s resentment some of the native BJP leaders, ” he added.

    In a similar way, in Varachha, Kumar Kanani won employees’ disaffection. After BJP fielded Bhagha Barad, the Congress turncoat from Talala, the celebration employees have now not taken it fortuitously.

    In Khambhat sitting MLA Mayur Raval confronted resistance as he embarked upon campaigning after being repeated. BJP has additionally dropped sitting MLA and Former Minister Vibhavari Dave from Bhavnagar East constituencies.

    The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) has up to now introduced 166 applicants in two lists whilst 16 applicants are but to be introduced. The suspense for names on some key constituencies had persevered even because the celebration attempted to stability gender, caste and socioeconomic equations.

    Resources care for that the celebration’s top command is dealing with an intense tug-of-war over the seats which is resulting in a extend in publishing the names of the applicants.

    Gujarat will move to polls in two levels on December 1 and December 5 and the counting of votes will likely be performed on December 8.

    AHMEDABAD: Whilst the previous Matar MLA Kesrisinh Solanki returned to the BJP fold inside of 48 hours of becoming a member of AAP, employees and supporters of MLA Jankhana Patel took to the streets in Choryasi in Surat on Saturday after BJP changed Patel with Sandeep Desai because it introduced the 2nd Candidate listing of six folks for the state legislative meeting elections to be held in December.

    The knowledge finds that Jankhana Patel gained the seat with one of the vital best possible margins recorded in 2017. She gained by means of a victory margin of over one lakh votes. She is the second-highest-margin winner after CM Bhupendra Patel.

    In Surat, the saffron celebration is witnessing some critical dissatisfaction over employees’ post-seat allocation.

    BJP releases an inventory of 6 applicants to contest the approaching Gujarat #AssemblyPolls2022 percent.twitter.com/ELQyIGkYSL
    — ANI (@ANI) November 12, 2022
    BJP Chief of Surat Yajuvendra Dube stated “Hindi-speaking Electorate and Koli group citizens are dominating within the Choryasi seat. Jhankhna Patel belongs to the Koli group. Even supposing she gained by means of a document margin, her title is dropped from the listing. We aren’t ready to grasp the rationale,”
    “Although the celebration needs to switch the candidate then the price tag must had been given in step with caste equations. Possibly as a result of this, there’s resentment some of the native BJP leaders, ” he added.
    In a similar way, in Varachha, Kumar Kanani won employees’ disaffection. After BJP fielded Bhagha Barad, the Congress turncoat from Talala, the celebration employees have now not taken it fortuitously.
    In Khambhat sitting MLA Mayur Raval confronted resistance as he embarked upon campaigning after being repeated. BJP has additionally dropped sitting MLA and Former Minister Vibhavari Dave from Bhavnagar East constituencies.
    The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) has up to now introduced 166 applicants in two lists whilst 16 applicants are but to be introduced. The suspense for names on some key constituencies had persevered even because the celebration attempted to stability gender, caste and socioeconomic equations.
    Resources care for that the celebration’s top command is dealing with an intense tug-of-war over the seats which is resulting in a extend in publishing the names of the applicants.
    Gujarat will move to polls in two levels on December 1 and December 5 and the counting of votes will likely be performed on December 8.

  • Gujarat polls: Kharge chairs CEC meet, Cong’s 1st record of applicants to be out very quickly

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge chaired a gathering of the birthday celebration’s central election committee (CEC) right here on Friday all the way through which a number of applicants for the impending Gujarat Meeting polls have been finalised.

    Assets stated the opposition birthday celebration’s first record of applicants for the Gujarat polls shall be out very quickly.

    Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi joined the assembly on-line, whilst the remainder of the contributors attended it bodily on the AICC headquarters right here.

    CEC participants and birthday celebration common secretaries Mukul Wasnik and Ok C Venugopal, but even so Mohsina Kidwai, Girija Vyas and Ambika Soni, have been amongst the ones provide on the assembly.

    All India Congress Committee (AICC) in fee for Gujarat Raghu Sharma and the birthday celebration’s state unit leader, Jagdish Thakor, have been additionally in attendance.

    The Congress is looking for to oust the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP) from executive in the house state of Top Minister Narendra Modi, the place the saffron birthday celebration has been in energy for greater than twenty years.

    Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Meeting shall be held in two levels — December 1 and 5 — whilst the votes shall be counted on December 8.

    NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge chaired a gathering of the birthday celebration’s central election committee (CEC) right here on Friday all the way through which a number of applicants for the impending Gujarat Meeting polls have been finalised.

    Assets stated the opposition birthday celebration’s first record of applicants for the Gujarat polls shall be out very quickly.

    Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi joined the assembly on-line, whilst the remainder of the contributors attended it bodily on the AICC headquarters right here.

    CEC participants and birthday celebration common secretaries Mukul Wasnik and Ok C Venugopal, but even so Mohsina Kidwai, Girija Vyas and Ambika Soni, have been amongst the ones provide on the assembly.

    All India Congress Committee (AICC) in fee for Gujarat Raghu Sharma and the birthday celebration’s state unit leader, Jagdish Thakor, have been additionally in attendance.

    The Congress is looking for to oust the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP) from executive in the house state of Top Minister Narendra Modi, the place the saffron birthday celebration has been in energy for greater than twenty years.

    Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Meeting shall be held in two levels — December 1 and 5 — whilst the votes shall be counted on December 8.

  • Modi senses ‘silent’ ballot marketing campaign by way of Cong in Gujarat, sounds out BJP cadres

    Through PTI

    ANAND: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Monday warned Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) employees in opposition to the Congress’s “silent” campaigning in Gujarat and stated the ruling BJP should relatively adjust its ballot way to counter what he termed “conspiracy” of the opposition celebration.

    Modi, on a three-day seek advice from to his house state, stated the Congress has this time seems to have modified its technique in Gujarat, the place Meeting polls are due in the following few months.

    “I want to provide you with a warning as a result of apparently to me that this time the Congress has followed a brand new technique. I’ve no longer probed, however that’s what seems to me to start with look,” he stated, addressing a BJP rally at Vallabh Vidyanagar in Anand district.

    He stated in earlier Meeting elections, the Congress used to make a large number of noise and boast about “completing” the BJP, which is ruling the state for greater than 20 years.

    “However we didn’t fall (were given defeated) in two decades, so they have got finished one thing new, which is why we want to stay alert,” stated Modi, who up to now served as Leader Minister of Gujarat for 13 years.

    The Top Minister stated the Congress, as soon as a dominant political pressure in Gujarat, isn’t pronouncing the rest overtly, however running “silently” by way of going to villages and adopting its outdated “manipulative” methods.

    “Subsequently, do not be puzzled as a result of they don’t seem to be showing within the press, nor carrying out any press meetings or making speeches. Beware. The Congress is attempting to infiltrate with a brand new technique. It does no longer discuss, however is attaining out to villages, retaining conferences,” Modi stated.

    He stated BJP employees had to stay alert and counter this new technique of the principle Opposition celebration.

    The BJP’s celebrity campaigner maintained the rustic’s oldest political celebration remains to be leaving no likelihood “to insult Gujarat”.

    “It has followed a brand new technique, to unfold poison in villages, telling other folks by way of deciphering issues otherwise,” he stated on the rally on the second one day of his seek advice from to Gujarat.

    He requested BJP cadres to achieve out to electorate and do door-to-door canvassing for the impending polls.

    “We will be able to have to know this neatly and upload a couple of new sides to our technique. I’m positive BJP employees beneath the management of CR Paatil (Gujarat unit president) will take on any disaster. We need to defeat the Congress’s conspiracy by way of going door to door (of electorate),” Modi stated.

    ANAND: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Monday warned Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) employees in opposition to the Congress’s “silent” campaigning in Gujarat and stated the ruling BJP should relatively adjust its ballot way to counter what he termed “conspiracy” of the opposition celebration.

    Modi, on a three-day seek advice from to his house state, stated the Congress has this time seems to have modified its technique in Gujarat, the place Meeting polls are due in the following few months.

    “I want to provide you with a warning as a result of apparently to me that this time the Congress has followed a brand new technique. I’ve no longer probed, however that’s what seems to me to start with look,” he stated, addressing a BJP rally at Vallabh Vidyanagar in Anand district.

    He stated in earlier Meeting elections, the Congress used to make a large number of noise and boast about “completing” the BJP, which is ruling the state for greater than 20 years.

    “However we didn’t fall (were given defeated) in two decades, so they have got finished one thing new, which is why we want to stay alert,” stated Modi, who up to now served as Leader Minister of Gujarat for 13 years.

    The Top Minister stated the Congress, as soon as a dominant political pressure in Gujarat, isn’t pronouncing the rest overtly, however running “silently” by way of going to villages and adopting its outdated “manipulative” methods.

    “Subsequently, do not be puzzled as a result of they don’t seem to be showing within the press, nor carrying out any press meetings or making speeches. Beware. The Congress is attempting to infiltrate with a brand new technique. It does no longer discuss, however is attaining out to villages, retaining conferences,” Modi stated.

    He stated BJP employees had to stay alert and counter this new technique of the principle Opposition celebration.

    The BJP’s celebrity campaigner maintained the rustic’s oldest political celebration remains to be leaving no likelihood “to insult Gujarat”.

    “It has followed a brand new technique, to unfold poison in villages, telling other folks by way of deciphering issues otherwise,” he stated on the rally on the second one day of his seek advice from to Gujarat.

    He requested BJP cadres to achieve out to electorate and do door-to-door canvassing for the impending polls.

    “We will be able to have to know this neatly and upload a couple of new sides to our technique. I’m positive BJP employees beneath the management of CR Paatil (Gujarat unit president) will take on any disaster. We need to defeat the Congress’s conspiracy by way of going door to door (of electorate),” Modi stated.

  • Congress’ twin problem in 2022 Gujarat elections: To tackle BJP & stay vote financial institution intact, say professionals

    By means of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: The approaching Gujarat Meeting polls usually are one of the vital hardest for the opposition Congress as it’s dealing with a twin problem – of defeating the ruling BJP in the house state of High Minister Narendra Modi and protective its base from events just like the AAP and AIMIM, which can be additionally seeking to make inroads into the state, say political professionals.

    On the other hand, a state Congress spokesperson claimed other folks will vote for his or her celebration, within the Gujarat elections due later this 12 months, as they’re bored stiff of the BJP’s “misrule” for over twenty years.

    However, political observers really feel the Congress is plagued through a dearth of robust native leaders, infighting and depleting paintings drive within the state.

    “This can be one of the vital hardest election for the Congress in Gujarat,” Rajkot-based political observer Suresh Samani instructed PTI, noting the celebration has no longer received the state Meeting polls since 1995.

    In 2017, the Congress received 77 seats within the 182-member Meeting, and a top vote proportion, in large part because of rural misery, he stated.

    The BJP had received 99 seats within the Meeting within the closing election.

    “The farming group was once no longer satisfied because it was once no longer getting a just right value for crop produce. Within the closing 5 years, the BJP executive within the state bought each farm produce, together with industrial vegetation like groundnut, through paying a moderately just right go back because the Minimal Reinforce Value (MSP). The agricultural inhabitants now has not anything to whinge about,” Samani stated.

    Additionally, the city heart magnificence and better heart magnificence electorate have stood firmly in the back of the BJP because of more than a few causes, together with Hindutva, in spite of the emerging inflation, he stated.

    “So, the Congress’s plan to make inroads into the state’s city spaces isn’t prone to make a lot headway,” he stated.

    The Congress strongholds of north Gujarat and a few tribal area have additionally been breached as lots of its sturdy leaders have crossed over to the BJP within the closing 5 years.

    “The Congress has an issue of depleting celebration paintings drive and infighting, amongst others problems,” he stated.

    The opposite problem prior to the Congress is contenders just like the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) and the Asaduddin Owaisi headed All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), which can be additionally “vying for a pie of the standard Congress vote financial institution,” he stated.

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    AAP convenor and Delhi Leader Minister Kejriwal, all through his contemporary marketing campaign rallies in Gujarat, centered the Congress through interesting to electorate to not waste their votes at the opposition celebration, claiming it can’t defeat the BJP.

    The AAP is eyeing to chop into the Congress’s vote proportion to problem the BJP, because it had accomplished in Delhi.

    The Bharatiya Tribal Celebration (BTP) of Chotu Vasava has additionally introduced an alliance with the AAP to offer a battle to the Congress for tribal votes.

    AIMIM leader Owaisi lately visited some Muslim-dominated constituencies in Ahmedabad, Vadgam in north Gujarat and Kutch with an purpose to woo the minority group.

    His celebration is aiming to open its account within the state Meeting in constituencies the place the Muslim inhabitants is relatively upper than different communities.

    Some other political observer Hari Desai stated the Congress can provide the BJP a difficult battle if it sticks to cater to the KHAM (Kshatriya, Harijan, Adivasi (tribal) and Muslim) vote financial institution and will get votes of disgruntled Patel group individuals.

    The KHAM mixture of castes and communities was once devised as a profitable method through former Gujarat leader minister Madhavsinh Solanki.

    “Events just like the AAP and the BTP can snatch votes of the BJP and hurt the ruling celebration similarly, and no longer simply the Congress,” Desai stated.

    He additionally stated that the AIMIM is prone to lower the Congress’s votes within the state.

    On the other hand, Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi claimed the folks of Gujarat have been bored stiff of the “vanity and misrule” of the BJP for over twenty years and that it’ll mirror within the 2022 Meeting elections as they are going to vote out the ruling celebration.

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    “The Congress has shaped a technique, and the celebration’s central management is watching the whole thing minutely and directing us on move concerning the polls. Now we have determined to make this election a battle towards Gujarat Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel and BJP state unit president C R Paatil,” Doshi stated.

    The Congress does no longer need the state election to be a battle between PM Narendra Modi and the opposition celebration, he added.

    At the AAP and different events additionally gearing as much as contest the Gujarat polls, Congress nationwide spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil stated a 3rd celebration hasn’t ever succeeded within the state.

    “Since its formation, Gujarat has observed contests best between the Congress and the BJP and it’ll stay so. The AAP won’t be able to chop ice with the folks of Gujarat,” he claimed.

  • Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann cling conferences with native AAP leaders on concluding day of Ahmedabad consult with

    Via PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann on Sunday introduced prayers on the Swaminarayan temple in Ahmedabad and later held conferences with native leaders of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) earlier than concluding their two-day consult with to town.

    Particularly, Kejriwal, who’s AAP’s nationwide convener, and Mann had paid obeisance at a temple in Nikol space of town on Saturday and held a roadshow, nearly launching the marketing campaign for the Meeting elections in BJP-ruled Gujarat, due in December this 12 months.

    On Sunday, the 2 AAP leaders began their day via visiting the Swaminarayan temple in Shahibaug locality, the place they introduced prayers with state birthday party leaders Gopal Italia and Isudan Gadhvi via their aspect.

    Later within the day, they met the birthday party’s most sensible leaders within the state, contributors of core committee and frontal organisations, the place they mentioned the AAP’s state-level organisation and present political state of affairs, a birthday party spokesperson mentioned.

    Additionally they held indoor conferences with the folk related to other political and social organisations in addition to gifted folks from other walks of lifestyles, he mentioned.

    Amongst those that met the 2 leader ministers integrated some Congress leaders, he mentioned.

    Kejriwal and Mann left for Delhi within the night time.

    On Saturday, the duo had began their Ahmedabad excursion via visiting the Sabarmati Ashram and providing tributes to Mahatma Gandhi.

    Later within the day, they’d held a roadshow within the town’s Nikol and Bapunagar locality with a big turnout of birthday party contributors and supporters.

    With Congress in disarray, the AAP, which these days regulations Delhi and Punjab, is having a look to give an alternative choice to the electorate in the house state of Top Minister Narendra Modi, the place the BJP has been ruling since 1995.

  • Tribals in Gujarat accentuate protest in opposition to Par-Tapi Narmada river-linking venture

    Specific Information Carrier

    AHMEDABAD: Forward of the Gujarat meeting elections slated for December this 12 months, the BJP executive within the state faces the opposition warmth on a slew of problems. 

    The protest in opposition to the Par -Tapi Narmada river-linking venture proposed by means of the Centre in South Gujarat appears to be gaining momentum day-to-day. On Friday, greater than 10,000 tribals in 50 buses and small and massive automobiles reached Gandhinagar Satyagraha Chavni (camp) to level a protest.

    Consistent with the tribal group, the hospitals and faculties in tribal spaces throughout Gujarat are in a dilapidated situation. Even because the land of the tribal group is usurped for quite a lot of initiatives, fundamental amenities have been denied to them.

    Congress legislature and tribal chief Anant Patel mentioned, “our group has been combating for its lifestyles for hundreds of years. At this time, the situation of the tribals could be very dangerous. Justice is denied to us. Water provide isn’t to be had for the tribals even if the river passes during the tribal space. There’s no electrical energy. The federal government writes off the money owed of industrialists, however does no longer supply jobs to the adolescence of our group We can struggle although we need to struggle like Birsa Munda.”

    Congress tried to gherao the State Meeting construction over the  Par-Tapi Narmada- river-linking venture, however the protesters have been detained by means of police.

    In the meantime, farmers from across the district drove in tractors to Pethapur village to level a protest. However the police detained them midway thru. Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (Indian Farmers Union) warned that if the ability disaster of agriculture isn’t resolved inside 72 hours, there might be a statewide agitation.

    Reacting to the farmers and congress protest Gujarat executive spokesperson and Cupboard Minister Jitu Waghani mentioned “The state executive is with the farmers. Essential preparations are being made to make sure good enough energy provide to them. Congress has no selection however to impress the farmers. The state BJP executive has applied quite a lot of schemes for farmers. Simplest 51,551 agricultural electrical energy connections have been equipped from 1960 to 1995 whilst 14,63,739 agricultural electrical energy connections have been equipped from 1995 to 2022.”