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  • Gujarat: Former BJP minister Jaynarayan Vyas joins Congress

    By means of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Former Gujarat minister Jaynarayan Vyas, the face of the Gujarat executive in TV debates when Narendra Modi was once the manager minister, on Monday joined the Congress.

    On his determination to surrender the BJP after over 3 a long time, the previous spokesperson of the Gujarat executive mentioned, “I noticed a big banyan tree increasing there. And not anything grows underneath the banyan tree.”

    Vyas, who surrender the BJP previous this month, joined the Congress in presence of its president Mallikarjun Kharge, who inducted the 75-year-old into the celebration.

    Rajasthan Leader Minister and Congress veteran Ashok Gehlot welcomed Vyas into the celebration fold.

    His son Samir Vyas additionally joined the Congress.

    Addressing the media, Vyas lauded Rahul Gandhi and the Congress for the celebration’s inside democracy.

    An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Era Bombay, Vyas served because the minister of well being and circle of relatives welfare within the Gujarat BJP executive between 2007 and 2012 when Narendra Modi was once the manager minister.

    He was once defeated within the next Meeting elections in 2012 and 2017.

    Relating to the BJP’s determination to exchange Gujarat leader ministers over the previous few years and to switch all the cupboard in 2021, Jaynarayan Vyas claimed it was once now not within the passion of the state.

    “If Gujarat is administered via leaders who don’t care even if got rid of from the ministry, then this isn’t within the passion of Gujarat. Those that care concerning the passion of Gujarat will have to talk up,” he mentioned.

    The previous minister mentioned he has adopted the Bharat Jodo Yatra and Rahul Gandhi is a pace-setter now not handiest of the Congress however everyone “who thinks of himself as an Indian and believes in democracy.”

    He additionally lauded the Congress over its inside procedure to make a choice its president.

    “I felt this celebration does now not say issues retaining an individual on the centre, however the place even the presidents are decided on (via a democratic procedure) and just one title isn’t used for the publish. Simplest the Congress functionaries make a decision who will have to be the chief, and no exterior issue just like the Sangh is concerned,” he mentioned.

    Vyas expressed his dedication in opposition to the nationwide passion, and mentioned he’s going to satisfy no matter obligations the celebration offers him.

    Relating to the BJP’s narrative across the Narmada dam venture, he mentioned the “basis of all large and small irrigation schemes have been laid prior to 1960. The narrative across the Narmada scheme is a lie, and a lie instructed again and again turns into a reality,” he mentioned.

    He mentioned 75 consistent with cent of the concrete paintings of the dam together with the root — maximum paintings went into the root — began throughout the tenure of (then Congress leader minister) Amarsinh Chaudhary and (Congress chief) Sanat Mehta,” he mentioned.

    Congress top ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi performed vital roles within the growth of the Narmada scheme, he added.

    AHMEDABAD: Former Gujarat minister Jaynarayan Vyas, the face of the Gujarat executive in TV debates when Narendra Modi was once the manager minister, on Monday joined the Congress.

    On his determination to surrender the BJP after over 3 a long time, the previous spokesperson of the Gujarat executive mentioned, “I noticed a big banyan tree increasing there. And not anything grows underneath the banyan tree.”

    Vyas, who surrender the BJP previous this month, joined the Congress in presence of its president Mallikarjun Kharge, who inducted the 75-year-old into the celebration.

    Rajasthan Leader Minister and Congress veteran Ashok Gehlot welcomed Vyas into the celebration fold.

    His son Samir Vyas additionally joined the Congress.

    Addressing the media, Vyas lauded Rahul Gandhi and the Congress for the celebration’s inside democracy.

    An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Era Bombay, Vyas served because the minister of well being and circle of relatives welfare within the Gujarat BJP executive between 2007 and 2012 when Narendra Modi was once the manager minister.

    He was once defeated within the next Meeting elections in 2012 and 2017.

    Relating to the BJP’s determination to exchange Gujarat leader ministers over the previous few years and to switch all the cupboard in 2021, Jaynarayan Vyas claimed it was once now not within the passion of the state.

    “If Gujarat is administered via leaders who don’t care even if got rid of from the ministry, then this isn’t within the passion of Gujarat. Those that care concerning the passion of Gujarat will have to talk up,” he mentioned.

    The previous minister mentioned he has adopted the Bharat Jodo Yatra and Rahul Gandhi is a pace-setter now not handiest of the Congress however everyone “who thinks of himself as an Indian and believes in democracy.”

    He additionally lauded the Congress over its inside procedure to make a choice its president.

    “I felt this celebration does now not say issues retaining an individual on the centre, however the place even the presidents are decided on (via a democratic procedure) and just one title isn’t used for the publish. Simplest the Congress functionaries make a decision who will have to be the chief, and no exterior issue just like the Sangh is concerned,” he mentioned.

    Vyas expressed his dedication in opposition to the nationwide passion, and mentioned he’s going to satisfy no matter obligations the celebration offers him.

    Relating to the BJP’s narrative across the Narmada dam venture, he mentioned the “basis of all large and small irrigation schemes have been laid prior to 1960. The narrative across the Narmada scheme is a lie, and a lie instructed again and again turns into a reality,” he mentioned.

    He mentioned 75 consistent with cent of the concrete paintings of the dam together with the root — maximum paintings went into the root — began throughout the tenure of (then Congress leader minister) Amarsinh Chaudhary and (Congress chief) Sanat Mehta,” he mentioned.

    Congress top ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi performed vital roles within the growth of the Narmada scheme, he added.

  • Congress does not appreciate tribals, did not beef up Murmu in presidential polls: PM Modi in Gujarat

    Via PTI

    NETRANG: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the Congress of getting no appreciate for the tribal neighborhood within the nation, and mentioned it even adverse the candidature of Droupadi Murmu within the presidential election held previous this 12 months.

    Addressing a public rally at Netrang, a tribal house of Bharuch district in poll-bound Gujarat, Modi additionally mentioned that all of the international was once amazed at how India has pop out of this kind of giant pandemic of COVID-19 in this kind of quick span.

    “Congress has no appreciate for tribals within the nation…We determined to make our tribal daughter (Droupadi Murmu) the president of the rustic. We went to Congress with folded palms to just accept her (beef up her candidature), however they adverse. We put all our would possibly and made the tribal daughter win the election,” Modi mentioned.

    “Be it, Birsa Munda or Govind Guru, the Congress didn’t give appreciate to tribal leaders of the rustic,” he additional alleged.
    ALSO READ | Congress gave you MGNREGA, scholarships; BJP took away your land: Rahul to tribals in Gujarat

    The PM mentioned the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in a large nation like India was once terrifying.

    “The entire international confronted this kind of terrifying pandemic. If anyone will get ill at our house, we take 4 to 5 years yet to come out of it (monetary impact). We confronted the pandemic in this kind of giant nation. However the way in which we got here out of it, all of the international is amazed. They aren’t ready to know the way it took place,” Modi mentioned.

    “Factories were given closed; folks had to return to their villages. In such instances, our first fear was once there must be sufficient meals for deficient folks; a kid of a deficient must now not fall asleep with out meals. So we have now been offering loose ration to 80 crore folks for the final 3 years,” he mentioned.

    “Secondly, to struggle the pandemic, vaccination was once the most important. Even now, many nations are suffering to vaccinate their complete inhabitants. We’ve given greater than 200 crore doses of anti-coronavirus vaccine. After two doses, we supplied a booster dose additionally loose,” Modi mentioned.

    The high minister mentioned that the Virtual India marketing campaign has caused a revolution within the nation.

    If the Congress was once in energy, your cell invoice can have been round Rs 4,000 to five,000 per thirty days, which is minimum now. “We made knowledge reasonably priced,” he mentioned.

    Talking at the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), he mentioned that previously, specs of homes constructed underneath govt schemes have been set via the folk sitting in Gandhinagar or Delhi.

    “However we modified the principles. How can an individual sitting in Delhi know what’s the requirement of a tribal one that is in poultry farming? We mentioned that you simply must accept as true with our folks as no person will construct an inferior high quality house for themselves,” the high minister mentioned.

    NETRANG: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the Congress of getting no appreciate for the tribal neighborhood within the nation, and mentioned it even adverse the candidature of Droupadi Murmu within the presidential election held previous this 12 months.

    Addressing a public rally at Netrang, a tribal house of Bharuch district in poll-bound Gujarat, Modi additionally mentioned that all of the international was once amazed at how India has pop out of this kind of giant pandemic of COVID-19 in this kind of quick span.

    “Congress has no appreciate for tribals within the nation…We determined to make our tribal daughter (Droupadi Murmu) the president of the rustic. We went to Congress with folded palms to just accept her (beef up her candidature), however they adverse. We put all our would possibly and made the tribal daughter win the election,” Modi mentioned.

    “Be it, Birsa Munda or Govind Guru, the Congress didn’t give appreciate to tribal leaders of the rustic,” he additional alleged.ALSO READ | Congress gave you MGNREGA, scholarships; BJP took away your land: Rahul to tribals in Gujarat

    The PM mentioned the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in a large nation like India was once terrifying.

    “The entire international confronted this kind of terrifying pandemic. If anyone will get ill at our house, we take 4 to 5 years yet to come out of it (monetary impact). We confronted the pandemic in this kind of giant nation. However the way in which we got here out of it, all of the international is amazed. They aren’t ready to know the way it took place,” Modi mentioned.

    “Factories were given closed; folks had to return to their villages. In such instances, our first fear was once there must be sufficient meals for deficient folks; a kid of a deficient must now not fall asleep with out meals. So we have now been offering loose ration to 80 crore folks for the final 3 years,” he mentioned.

    “Secondly, to struggle the pandemic, vaccination was once the most important. Even now, many nations are suffering to vaccinate their complete inhabitants. We’ve given greater than 200 crore doses of anti-coronavirus vaccine. After two doses, we supplied a booster dose additionally loose,” Modi mentioned.

    The high minister mentioned that the Virtual India marketing campaign has caused a revolution within the nation.

    If the Congress was once in energy, your cell invoice can have been round Rs 4,000 to five,000 per thirty days, which is minimum now. “We made knowledge reasonably priced,” he mentioned.

    Talking at the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), he mentioned that previously, specs of homes constructed underneath govt schemes have been set via the folk sitting in Gandhinagar or Delhi.

    “However we modified the principles. How can an individual sitting in Delhi know what’s the requirement of a tribal one that is in poultry farming? We mentioned that you simply must accept as true with our folks as no person will construct an inferior high quality house for themselves,” the high minister mentioned.

  • Gujarat polls: Combat of Jadejas options cricketer brother, sister bat for various events

    By means of PTI

    JAMNAGAR: Hours prior to cricketer Ravindra Jadeja travelled during the town’s marketplace in an open SUV as a part of a BJP roadshow, his sister Naynaba Jadeja sought votes for the Congress, reminding electorate of value upward thrust underneath the ruling birthday celebration and its “unfulfilled” employment guarantees.

    Whilst the well-known cricketer campaigned for his spouse Rivaba Jadeja, his elder sister canvassed for Bipendrasinh Jadeja, highlighting the “sibling competition” that has added some other layer of hobby within the ballot after the BJP dropped its sitting MLA Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, in the neighborhood higher referred to as Hakubha.

    A contender for the Congress price ticket from the Jamnagar North seat, Naynaba has emerged as a key campaigner for her birthday celebration after the BJP selected her well-known brother’s spouse as its candidate.

    She is continuously the point of interest of media queries whilst the Congress candidate, a seasoned organisation guy and businessman, performs a supporting position.

    “I’ve my ideology and feature been with a birthday celebration I love,” she says, slamming the BJP over the problem of value upward thrust and claiming that it simplest makes guarantees to other folks however by no means fulfils them, be it on employment or training.

    An overwhelmingly city constituency, Jamnagar North could also be noticed as extra beneficial to the BJP than the Congress although the opposition birthday celebration’s supporters imagine their birthday celebration can spring a wonder.

    Naynaba argues that for the reason that constituency voted for the primary time in 2012 after being carved out following delimitation, it’s necessarily a Congress seat because it gained for the primary time whilst the BJP grabbed it in 2017 after the incumbent MLA crossed over to the saffron camp.

    Even the successful BJP candidate used to be a Congressman who gained on his attraction, and our birthday celebration will ranking this time, she claims.

    Congress leaders additionally hope to get pleasure from any faultlines inside the BJP led to by means of its denial of the price ticket to the sitting MLA.

    The AAP has fielded Karsan Karmur, who had surrender the BJP to sign up for it closing yr.

    The state can have two-phase Meeting polls on December 1 and 5, whilst the votes shall be counted on December 8.

    It’s witnessing a three-cornered battle with the BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) within the fray.

    Hakubha, an influential individual, has now been dropped in favour of Riviba Jadeja however the BJP has controlled to placate him by means of making him the birthday celebration’s in-charge for polling in 3 meeting seats, together with Jamnagar North.

    Rajputs, the neighborhood the 2 major applicants hail from, and Muslims are some of the greatest vote casting blocs right here.

    Campaigning for Rivaba, BJP staff categorical self assurance in her win and declare the interest is extra in regards to the margin.

    In addition they brush aside the Congress’ “outsider” fee in opposition to her, arguing that she were running within the area after becoming a member of the BJP in 2019, months after she and her husband Ravindra Jadeja met Top Minister Narendra Modi.

    Some extent holder in mechanical engineering, she used to be born and raised in Rajkot whilst her husband is from Jamnagar. Sooner than becoming a member of the BJP, she used to be in Karni Sena, a Rajput crew accused previously of vandalism and violence within the promotion of its reasons.

    She joined Karni Sena and later the BJP within the spirit of doing one thing just right for the society and nation, she has continuously mentioned in her public interactions and cites Modi as her inspiration for coming into politics.

    JAMNAGAR: Hours prior to cricketer Ravindra Jadeja travelled during the town’s marketplace in an open SUV as a part of a BJP roadshow, his sister Naynaba Jadeja sought votes for the Congress, reminding electorate of value upward thrust underneath the ruling birthday celebration and its “unfulfilled” employment guarantees.

    Whilst the well-known cricketer campaigned for his spouse Rivaba Jadeja, his elder sister canvassed for Bipendrasinh Jadeja, highlighting the “sibling competition” that has added some other layer of hobby within the ballot after the BJP dropped its sitting MLA Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, in the neighborhood higher referred to as Hakubha.

    A contender for the Congress price ticket from the Jamnagar North seat, Naynaba has emerged as a key campaigner for her birthday celebration after the BJP selected her well-known brother’s spouse as its candidate.

    She is continuously the point of interest of media queries whilst the Congress candidate, a seasoned organisation guy and businessman, performs a supporting position.

    “I’ve my ideology and feature been with a birthday celebration I love,” she says, slamming the BJP over the problem of value upward thrust and claiming that it simplest makes guarantees to other folks however by no means fulfils them, be it on employment or training.

    An overwhelmingly city constituency, Jamnagar North could also be noticed as extra beneficial to the BJP than the Congress although the opposition birthday celebration’s supporters imagine their birthday celebration can spring a wonder.

    Naynaba argues that for the reason that constituency voted for the primary time in 2012 after being carved out following delimitation, it’s necessarily a Congress seat because it gained for the primary time whilst the BJP grabbed it in 2017 after the incumbent MLA crossed over to the saffron camp.

    Even the successful BJP candidate used to be a Congressman who gained on his attraction, and our birthday celebration will ranking this time, she claims.

    Congress leaders additionally hope to get pleasure from any faultlines inside the BJP led to by means of its denial of the price ticket to the sitting MLA.

    The AAP has fielded Karsan Karmur, who had surrender the BJP to sign up for it closing yr.

    The state can have two-phase Meeting polls on December 1 and 5, whilst the votes shall be counted on December 8.

    It’s witnessing a three-cornered battle with the BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) within the fray.

    Hakubha, an influential individual, has now been dropped in favour of Riviba Jadeja however the BJP has controlled to placate him by means of making him the birthday celebration’s in-charge for polling in 3 meeting seats, together with Jamnagar North.

    Rajputs, the neighborhood the 2 major applicants hail from, and Muslims are some of the greatest vote casting blocs right here.

    Campaigning for Rivaba, BJP staff categorical self assurance in her win and declare the interest is extra in regards to the margin.

    In addition they brush aside the Congress’ “outsider” fee in opposition to her, arguing that she were running within the area after becoming a member of the BJP in 2019, months after she and her husband Ravindra Jadeja met Top Minister Narendra Modi.

    Some extent holder in mechanical engineering, she used to be born and raised in Rajkot whilst her husband is from Jamnagar. Sooner than becoming a member of the BJP, she used to be in Karni Sena, a Rajput crew accused previously of vandalism and violence within the promotion of its reasons.

    She joined Karni Sena and later the BJP within the spirit of doing one thing just right for the society and nation, she has continuously mentioned in her public interactions and cites Modi as her inspiration for coming into politics.

  • Gujarat: Drug hauls, water disaster and communal divide dominate ballot scene in Kutch

    Through PTI

    KUTCH: Because the Pakistan bordering Kutch district of Gujarat is going to polls subsequent month, drug hauls price 1000’s of crores of rupees, water disaster on this arid area and sporadic incidents of communal clashes have turn out to be main election problems within the house.

    Closing 12 months, in a significant drug haul, round 3,000 kg of heroin price just about Rs 21,000 crore used to be seized on the Mundra Port in Kutch, the rustic’s biggest district which stocks land and marine border with Pakistan.

    Whilst the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) has been looking to undertaking it as nationwide safety being in protected fingers with the saffron camp in energy, the opposition Congress has wondered the failure of the state and the Centre from preventing drug trafficking.

    There have additionally been quite a few different instances of substances seizure in Kutch within the contemporary previous.

    “The query isn’t about how a lot used to be seized, however how this (heroin seized ultimate 12 months) consignment got here beneath the radar. What about different such consignments which would possibly have handed with out being spotted? The folks of the state wish to know what steps had been taken to stop such incidents,” state Congress chief and spokesperson Lalit Vasoya advised PTI.

    The Congress, in its marketing campaign, particularly within the bordering spaces, has been harping at the factor of drug threat within the state and the Kutch area getting used as a protected passage through drug traffickers.

    Refuting the allegations as baseless, BJP’s Kutch district media in-charge Satvik Gadhvi stated the drug seizure is an instance of the truth that his celebration, in contrast to the Congress, by no means compromises at the factor of nationwide safety.

    “For the BJP, the country comes first, in contrast to the Congress for which the vote financial institution is firstly. The seizure proves that the country and the state are protected,” he stated.

    Elections for the 182-member Gujarat Meeting will likely be hung on December 1 and 5.

    Kutch, which fits to polls within the first section on December 1, has six Meeting constituencies – Abdasa, Bhuj, Rapar, all bordering Pakistan, and Mandvi, Anjar and Gandhidham.

    In 2017, the BJP gained 4 of those seats, whilst the Congress bagged the minority-influenced Abdasa together with the Rapar constituency.

    However, the MLA from Abdasa converted to the saffron camp in 2020 and later gained the seat at the BJP’s price ticket.

    As according to the 2011 census knowledge, Kutch had 76.89 according to cent Hindus and 21.14 according to cent Muslims, with Abdasa and Bhuj Meeting constituencies having a substantial minority inhabitants.

    Whilst Gujarat were in information for the post-2002 Godhra riots, Kutch, which used to be reeling beneath the impact of the 2001 earthquake, remained insulated from communal politics till a couple of years again.

    However it isn’t the case this time as there was a simmering communal divide in quite a lot of portions of Kutch over more than one problems, together with sporadic incidents of such violence reported within the ultimate two years.

    In August this 12 months, a homicide ended in a communal conflict in Madhapur village in Kutch.

    In January ultimate 12 months, there used to be a conflict between contributors of 2 communities in Kidana village all through a rally for selection of finances for the Ram temple development.

    “Kutch has at all times been non violent regardless of no matter is going on in different portions of the state. However the scenario isn’t the similar now. There may be an environment of distrust amongst communities, and political events are looking to achieve from it,” 68-year-old fruit supplier in Bhuj the town Parwez Sheikh claimed.

    However, Kutch BJP district unit chief Ghanshyam Thakkar advised PTI that his celebration has maintained communal cohesion within the house.

    “The Congress and the AIMIM are looking to disturb the communal cohesion of the realm,” he claimed.

    “We can by no means permit this to occur,” he added.

    Consistent with district Congress leaders, the access of recent avid gamers, just like the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) and the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), has additional made the ballot struggle attention-grabbing within the area, with minorities now having choices rather than the grand outdated celebration.

    The AAP is contesting in the entire six seats, whilst the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM is contesting in two seats.

    Some native BJP leaders, on situation of anonymity, claimed the saffron camp will achieve from the AAP and AIMIM contesting the polls.

    “In Bhuj and Abdasa, if the AIMIM and AAP respectively set up to chop even 15,000 opposition votes, it would get advantages us,” a BJP chief stated.

    The opposition Congress this time hopes to make a blank sweep in opposition to the BJP within the district.

    Kutch district Congress President Yajuvendra Jadeja stated the BJP is aware of that 27 years of anti-incumbency is taking a heavy toll on it, and they’re the use of the whole lot at their disposal to win the elections.

    “From the use of the AIMIM and the AAP, they’re doing the whole lot to divide the opposition. However it may not yield any effects. Those two events are simply B-teams of the BJP,” he claimed.

    Then again, the AAP and the AIMIM district management have dubbed such allegations as “baseless”.

    “We aren’t the B-team of any celebration. In truth that neither the BJP nor the Congress has finished anything else for the Muslim group of Gujarat,” AIMIM candidate from Bhuj Sakil Sama stated.

    Some other key factor within the area is the water disaster, particularly getting provide from the Narmada river.

    The Kutch Department Canal is a department of the Narmada Major Canal (NMC), which originates at Kevadia and is meant to supply water to the Mandvi house.

    In different spaces, corresponding to Abdasa and Bhuj, the paintings for a pipeline for the canal connecting it with the NMC is but to start out, thus leaving all of the area craving for water.

    Locals rely on deep borewells, rainwater or govt tankers for water provide within the area.

    The native BJP unit agreed that “water disaster” is a significant factor, however blamed the Narmada Bachao Andolan for the consistent extend within the Sardar Sarovar Venture.

    “All the undertaking has been behind schedule because of the Narmada Bachao Andolan. We’re assured that when the elections are over, the paintings will get started on a conflict footing to arrange the infrastructure to herald common water provide within the area,” BJP MLA from Abdasa Pradhyuman Sinh Jadeja advised PTI.

    Then again, the Congress claims water disaster within the area is the largest instance of the BJP’s administrative and political failure.

    “Even after 27 years, if you must blame others for failing to supply water within the area, then BJP leaders must give up politics and sit down again at house. That is the largest instance of BJP’s administrative failure,” Yajuvendra Jadeja stated.

    Senior AAP chief Ankita Gor stated if voted to energy, the celebration would be certain consuming water amenities in each and every family of the area.

    KUTCH: Because the Pakistan bordering Kutch district of Gujarat is going to polls subsequent month, drug hauls price 1000’s of crores of rupees, water disaster on this arid area and sporadic incidents of communal clashes have turn out to be main election problems within the house.

    Closing 12 months, in a significant drug haul, round 3,000 kg of heroin price just about Rs 21,000 crore used to be seized on the Mundra Port in Kutch, the rustic’s biggest district which stocks land and marine border with Pakistan.

    Whilst the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) has been looking to undertaking it as nationwide safety being in protected fingers with the saffron camp in energy, the opposition Congress has wondered the failure of the state and the Centre from preventing drug trafficking.

    There have additionally been quite a few different instances of substances seizure in Kutch within the contemporary previous.

    “The query isn’t about how a lot used to be seized, however how this (heroin seized ultimate 12 months) consignment got here beneath the radar. What about different such consignments which would possibly have handed with out being spotted? The folks of the state wish to know what steps had been taken to stop such incidents,” state Congress chief and spokesperson Lalit Vasoya advised PTI.

    The Congress, in its marketing campaign, particularly within the bordering spaces, has been harping at the factor of drug threat within the state and the Kutch area getting used as a protected passage through drug traffickers.

    Refuting the allegations as baseless, BJP’s Kutch district media in-charge Satvik Gadhvi stated the drug seizure is an instance of the truth that his celebration, in contrast to the Congress, by no means compromises at the factor of nationwide safety.

    “For the BJP, the country comes first, in contrast to the Congress for which the vote financial institution is firstly. The seizure proves that the country and the state are protected,” he stated.

    Elections for the 182-member Gujarat Meeting will likely be hung on December 1 and 5.

    Kutch, which fits to polls within the first section on December 1, has six Meeting constituencies – Abdasa, Bhuj, Rapar, all bordering Pakistan, and Mandvi, Anjar and Gandhidham.

    In 2017, the BJP gained 4 of those seats, whilst the Congress bagged the minority-influenced Abdasa together with the Rapar constituency.

    However, the MLA from Abdasa converted to the saffron camp in 2020 and later gained the seat at the BJP’s price ticket.

    As according to the 2011 census knowledge, Kutch had 76.89 according to cent Hindus and 21.14 according to cent Muslims, with Abdasa and Bhuj Meeting constituencies having a substantial minority inhabitants.

    Whilst Gujarat were in information for the post-2002 Godhra riots, Kutch, which used to be reeling beneath the impact of the 2001 earthquake, remained insulated from communal politics till a couple of years again.

    However it isn’t the case this time as there was a simmering communal divide in quite a lot of portions of Kutch over more than one problems, together with sporadic incidents of such violence reported within the ultimate two years.

    In August this 12 months, a homicide ended in a communal conflict in Madhapur village in Kutch.

    In January ultimate 12 months, there used to be a conflict between contributors of 2 communities in Kidana village all through a rally for selection of finances for the Ram temple development.

    “Kutch has at all times been non violent regardless of no matter is going on in different portions of the state. However the scenario isn’t the similar now. There may be an environment of distrust amongst communities, and political events are looking to achieve from it,” 68-year-old fruit supplier in Bhuj the town Parwez Sheikh claimed.

    However, Kutch BJP district unit chief Ghanshyam Thakkar advised PTI that his celebration has maintained communal cohesion within the house.

    “The Congress and the AIMIM are looking to disturb the communal cohesion of the realm,” he claimed.

    “We can by no means permit this to occur,” he added.

    Consistent with district Congress leaders, the access of recent avid gamers, just like the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) and the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), has additional made the ballot struggle attention-grabbing within the area, with minorities now having choices rather than the grand outdated celebration.

    The AAP is contesting in the entire six seats, whilst the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM is contesting in two seats.

    Some native BJP leaders, on situation of anonymity, claimed the saffron camp will achieve from the AAP and AIMIM contesting the polls.

    “In Bhuj and Abdasa, if the AIMIM and AAP respectively set up to chop even 15,000 opposition votes, it would get advantages us,” a BJP chief stated.

    The opposition Congress this time hopes to make a blank sweep in opposition to the BJP within the district.

    Kutch district Congress President Yajuvendra Jadeja stated the BJP is aware of that 27 years of anti-incumbency is taking a heavy toll on it, and they’re the use of the whole lot at their disposal to win the elections.

    “From the use of the AIMIM and the AAP, they’re doing the whole lot to divide the opposition. However it may not yield any effects. Those two events are simply B-teams of the BJP,” he claimed.

    Then again, the AAP and the AIMIM district management have dubbed such allegations as “baseless”.

    “We aren’t the B-team of any celebration. In truth that neither the BJP nor the Congress has finished anything else for the Muslim group of Gujarat,” AIMIM candidate from Bhuj Sakil Sama stated.

    Some other key factor within the area is the water disaster, particularly getting provide from the Narmada river.

    The Kutch Department Canal is a department of the Narmada Major Canal (NMC), which originates at Kevadia and is meant to supply water to the Mandvi house.

    In different spaces, corresponding to Abdasa and Bhuj, the paintings for a pipeline for the canal connecting it with the NMC is but to start out, thus leaving all of the area craving for water.

    Locals rely on deep borewells, rainwater or govt tankers for water provide within the area.

    The native BJP unit agreed that “water disaster” is a significant factor, however blamed the Narmada Bachao Andolan for the consistent extend within the Sardar Sarovar Venture.

    “All the undertaking has been behind schedule because of the Narmada Bachao Andolan. We’re assured that when the elections are over, the paintings will get started on a conflict footing to arrange the infrastructure to herald common water provide within the area,” BJP MLA from Abdasa Pradhyuman Sinh Jadeja advised PTI.

    Then again, the Congress claims water disaster within the area is the largest instance of the BJP’s administrative and political failure.

    “Even after 27 years, if you must blame others for failing to supply water within the area, then BJP leaders must give up politics and sit down again at house. That is the largest instance of BJP’s administrative failure,” Yajuvendra Jadeja stated.

    Senior AAP chief Ankita Gor stated if voted to energy, the celebration would be certain consuming water amenities in each and every family of the area.

  • Paramilitary jawan deployed on Gujarat ballot responsibility shoots useless two colleagues after brawl

    Via ANI

    PORBANDAR (Gujarat): Two jawans of the Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) had been shot useless and two sustained gun accidents after their colleague opened hearth at them following a brawl, close to Gujarat’s Porbandar, the place they had been deployed for ballot responsibility forward of state Meeting election.

    The injured had been shifted to Porbandar civil clinic. All of them belong to Manipur.

    The firing between Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) staff passed off at a cyclone aid centre at Tukda Gosa, the place they had been lodged.

    “One jawan died at the spot whilst the opposite injured had been dropped at Porbandar Bhavsinghji Medical institution for remedy,” officers mentioned.

    “An incident of firing was once reported round 7 pm nowadays other people through which two paramilitary staff who had been deputed in Porbandar for Meeting election responsibility have died and the opposite two had been admitted to a close-by clinic. After giving number one remedy to the injured they had been referred to Jamnagar scientific school for additional remedy. The location is beneath keep an eye on, and forces had been deployed on the website online,” Ashok Sharma Probandar DM mentioned.

    The rationale in the back of the battle is but to be ascertained.

    Additional data is awaited. 

    PORBANDAR (Gujarat): Two jawans of the Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) had been shot useless and two sustained gun accidents after their colleague opened hearth at them following a brawl, close to Gujarat’s Porbandar, the place they had been deployed for ballot responsibility forward of state Meeting election.

    The injured had been shifted to Porbandar civil clinic. All of them belong to Manipur.

    The firing between Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) staff passed off at a cyclone aid centre at Tukda Gosa, the place they had been lodged.

    “One jawan died at the spot whilst the opposite injured had been dropped at Porbandar Bhavsinghji Medical institution for remedy,” officers mentioned.

    “An incident of firing was once reported round 7 pm nowadays other people through which two paramilitary staff who had been deputed in Porbandar for Meeting election responsibility have died and the opposite two had been admitted to a close-by clinic. After giving number one remedy to the injured they had been referred to Jamnagar scientific school for additional remedy. The location is beneath keep an eye on, and forces had been deployed on the website online,” Ashok Sharma Probandar DM mentioned.

    The rationale in the back of the battle is but to be ascertained.

    Additional data is awaited. 

  • AAP to file historical victory in Gujarat polls, transform a countrywide birthday celebration: Kejriwal

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal asserted on Saturday that his Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) will file a “historical victory” within the upcoming Gujarat Meeting polls and transform a “nationwide” political birthday celebration.

    Congratulating the birthday celebration staff at the tenth anniversary of the AAP’s basis day, Kejriwal stated the birthday celebration has created “many histories” in Indian politics because it got here into lifestyles on November 26, 2012, and transform “a brand new hope” for the folk of the rustic.

    “The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration was once shaped 10 years in the past on these days. In those 10 years, the birthday celebration created many histories in Indian politics with the immense love of the general public and the arduous paintings of the employees,” Kejriwal, the nationwide convenor of the birthday celebration, stated in a chain of tweets.

    10 साल पहले आज ही के दिन आम आदमी पार्टी की स्थापना हुई थी। इन 10 सालों में जनता के बेशुमार प्यार और कार्यकर्ताओं की मेहनत से पार्टी ने भारतीय राजनीति में कई इतिहास रचे। आज आम आदमी पार्टी देश की जनता की नई उम्मीद बन चुकी है, विश्वास बन चुकी है। %.twitter.com/SHV97E6ru3

    — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 26, 2022

    ALSO READ | Stench of hawala in Gujarat AAP money robbery

    “The AAP has presented new hope to the folk of the rustic and received their consider,” he stated.

    “With but some other historical victory, the AAP goes to transform a countrywide birthday celebration very quickly,” he stated.

    Driving excessive on its stupendous victory within the Punjab Meeting polls previous this yr, the AAP is making a bet large in poll-bound Gujarat. It has fielded applicants in all 182 Meeting constituencies within the BJP-ruled state.

    Until the 2017 Meeting polls, the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) and the Congress have been the primary contenders in Gujarat.

    With the AAP becoming a member of the fray with its high-decibel marketing campaign, the state is ready to witness a three-cornered ballot contest this time.

    The Kejriwal-led birthday celebration is hoping to achieve its foothold within the state via profitable a number of seats within the polls to be held in two stages on December 1 and 5.

    Consistent with the principles, a political birthday celebration will get the standing of a “State Birthday celebration” if it secures 6 according to cent of the votes polled and two seats in a legislative meeting. If a birthday celebration will get the standing of a “State Birthday celebration” in 4 states, it mechanically turns into a “Nationwide Birthday celebration.”

    The AAP is recognised as a “State Birthday celebration” in Delhi, Punjab and Goa. If it secures 6 according to cent of the votes polled and two seats in Gujarat, it’ll earn the tag of a “Nationwide Birthday celebration.”
    ALSO READ | AAP has maximum applicants with felony backgrounds in MCD polls

    NEW DELHI: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal asserted on Saturday that his Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) will file a “historical victory” within the upcoming Gujarat Meeting polls and transform a “nationwide” political birthday celebration.

    Congratulating the birthday celebration staff at the tenth anniversary of the AAP’s basis day, Kejriwal stated the birthday celebration has created “many histories” in Indian politics because it got here into lifestyles on November 26, 2012, and transform “a brand new hope” for the folk of the rustic.

    “The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration was once shaped 10 years in the past on these days. In those 10 years, the birthday celebration created many histories in Indian politics with the immense love of the general public and the arduous paintings of the employees,” Kejriwal, the nationwide convenor of the birthday celebration, stated in a chain of tweets.

    10 साल पहले आज ही के दिन आम आदमी पार्टी की स्थापना हुई थी। इन 10 सालों में जनता के बेशुमार प्यार और कार्यकर्ताओं की मेहनत से पार्टी ने भारतीय राजनीति में कई इतिहास रचे। आज आम आदमी पार्टी देश की जनता की नई उम्मीद बन चुकी है, विश्वास बन चुकी है। %.twitter.com/SHV97E6ru3

    — Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 26, 2022

    ALSO READ | Stench of hawala in Gujarat AAP money robbery

    “The AAP has presented new hope to the folk of the rustic and received their consider,” he stated.

    “With but some other historical victory, the AAP goes to transform a countrywide birthday celebration very quickly,” he stated.

    Driving excessive on its stupendous victory within the Punjab Meeting polls previous this yr, the AAP is making a bet large in poll-bound Gujarat. It has fielded applicants in all 182 Meeting constituencies within the BJP-ruled state.

    Until the 2017 Meeting polls, the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) and the Congress have been the primary contenders in Gujarat.

    With the AAP becoming a member of the fray with its high-decibel marketing campaign, the state is ready to witness a three-cornered ballot contest this time.

    The Kejriwal-led birthday celebration is hoping to achieve its foothold within the state via profitable a number of seats within the polls to be held in two stages on December 1 and 5.

    Consistent with the principles, a political birthday celebration will get the standing of a “State Birthday celebration” if it secures 6 according to cent of the votes polled and two seats in a legislative meeting. If a birthday celebration will get the standing of a “State Birthday celebration” in 4 states, it mechanically turns into a “Nationwide Birthday celebration.”

    The AAP is recognised as a “State Birthday celebration” in Delhi, Punjab and Goa. If it secures 6 according to cent of the votes polled and two seats in Gujarat, it’ll earn the tag of a “Nationwide Birthday celebration.”ALSO READ | AAP has maximum applicants with felony backgrounds in MCD polls

  • Water wishes dominate voter minds in Gujarat’s Tharad’s constituency

    Through PTI

    THARAD:  “There’s no water, give us water.” Because the solar beats down on arid flatlands punctuated through salt marshes, it is the one call for and paramount want verbalised through citizens on this border house when applicants name on them on this election season.

    Within the ebb and drift of lifestyles, water is the exigency, reducing thru traces in a society riven through caste, the deciding issue for weddings with folks who prefer to mend their daughters’ weddings in villages just about the one Narmada canal within the house.

    And the undercurrent operating during the marketing campaign of all celebration applicants in Banaskantha’s Tharad constituency, about 40 km from the Pakistan border and simply 15 km from Rajasthan.

    The BJP has fielded Shankar Chaudhary, an OBC (different backward categories) and chairperson of Asia’s greatest dairy, Banas Dairy, from this constituency ruled through the Chaudhary caste.

    Some of the 14 applicants within the fray for the December 5 election, is Congress’ sitting MLA Gulab Singh Peerabhai, additionally an OBC. The Aam Aadmi Birthday party has fielded Virchandbhai Chelabhai Chavda.
    ALSO READ | How caste equations are on the middle of the 2022 Gujarat elections 

    “Pani nathi, pani aapo (there is not any water, give us water)” was once the refrain from a bunch of girls, some with veils drawn over their faces, at Ajawada village the place the BJP’s nominee Chaudhary went soliciting for votes.

    The ladies, who spend many hours on a daily basis amassing water for his or her houses, had been from all castes.

    Jamna Ben, who greeted him in conventional taste through hanging a pink ’tilak’ on his brow, echoed them. “I’m hopeful you’re going to give me water,” she stated.

    Addressing the small collecting at the premises of the village temple, Chaudhary confident them he’ll get to the bottom of their issues and concludes his speech with ‘gau (cow) mata ki jai’.

    The problem discovered echo as he moved to the following village, Vantadu, for a post-death ritual.

    Chaudhary, who changed the pink turban with a white one, appealed to them to vote for the BJP and confident them their water wishes might be addressed.

    Bharubhai Kag, a Chaudhary through caste, watched the goings on and positioned the subject in point of view. “There is just one Narmada canal within the district which has been offering water to just 38 villages in Tharad taluka having a complete of 135 villages,” Kag instructed PTI.

    The water stage, he stated, has long gone down significantly and borewells want to be dug very deep to get water which is anyway saline and no longer just right for plants. “Other folks from villages that are close to the canal do not marry their daughters to boys from villages which can be a ways clear of the canal are dependent at the borewells for irrigation,” Kag added.

    Status subsequent to him, Maheshji Bhai Thakor, from the Thakor caste as his identify suggests, agreed.

    “Water is one of these giant factor that folks can vote for an individual from any other caste if it will get resolved. Each Kag and Thakor describe Congress MLA as a just right guy. The going, they stated, might be tricky for him this time with the Congress showing to punch above its weight. Gulab Singh is all the time there to assist other folks however other folks need any individual who will take a seat in Ahmedabad and get to the bottom of their variations,” Thakor stated.

    Addressing a rally within the constituency just lately, Union House Minister Amit Shah stated Chaudhary will develop into a large guy if he wins the election.

    Singh has been carrying out a low-key, going door-to-door and assembly elders and children from each and every caste. He has been speaking at period concerning the water shortage factor in his speech, blaming the BJP which has been in energy for just about 3 many years for it.

    Within the 2017 Gujarat meeting election, BJP’s Parbatbhai Savabhai Patel gained the election however later left the seat upon getting elected as MP from Banaskantha district. Congress’ Gulab Singh gained defeating the BJP candidate within the bypoll in 2019.

    In 2017, Chaudhary contested from the Vav constituency of Banaskantha and misplaced to Congress’s Geniben Thakor.

    The Gujarat elections are being held over two levels, on December 1 and 5. The votes might be counted on December 8.

    THARAD:  “There’s no water, give us water.” Because the solar beats down on arid flatlands punctuated through salt marshes, it is the one call for and paramount want verbalised through citizens on this border house when applicants name on them on this election season.

    Within the ebb and drift of lifestyles, water is the exigency, reducing thru traces in a society riven through caste, the deciding issue for weddings with folks who prefer to mend their daughters’ weddings in villages just about the one Narmada canal within the house.

    And the undercurrent operating during the marketing campaign of all celebration applicants in Banaskantha’s Tharad constituency, about 40 km from the Pakistan border and simply 15 km from Rajasthan.

    The BJP has fielded Shankar Chaudhary, an OBC (different backward categories) and chairperson of Asia’s greatest dairy, Banas Dairy, from this constituency ruled through the Chaudhary caste.

    Some of the 14 applicants within the fray for the December 5 election, is Congress’ sitting MLA Gulab Singh Peerabhai, additionally an OBC. The Aam Aadmi Birthday party has fielded Virchandbhai Chelabhai Chavda.ALSO READ | How caste equations are on the middle of the 2022 Gujarat elections 

    “Pani nathi, pani aapo (there is not any water, give us water)” was once the refrain from a bunch of girls, some with veils drawn over their faces, at Ajawada village the place the BJP’s nominee Chaudhary went soliciting for votes.

    The ladies, who spend many hours on a daily basis amassing water for his or her houses, had been from all castes.

    Jamna Ben, who greeted him in conventional taste through hanging a pink ’tilak’ on his brow, echoed them. “I’m hopeful you’re going to give me water,” she stated.

    Addressing the small collecting at the premises of the village temple, Chaudhary confident them he’ll get to the bottom of their issues and concludes his speech with ‘gau (cow) mata ki jai’.

    The problem discovered echo as he moved to the following village, Vantadu, for a post-death ritual.

    Chaudhary, who changed the pink turban with a white one, appealed to them to vote for the BJP and confident them their water wishes might be addressed.

    Bharubhai Kag, a Chaudhary through caste, watched the goings on and positioned the subject in point of view. “There is just one Narmada canal within the district which has been offering water to just 38 villages in Tharad taluka having a complete of 135 villages,” Kag instructed PTI.

    The water stage, he stated, has long gone down significantly and borewells want to be dug very deep to get water which is anyway saline and no longer just right for plants. “Other folks from villages that are close to the canal do not marry their daughters to boys from villages which can be a ways clear of the canal are dependent at the borewells for irrigation,” Kag added.

    Status subsequent to him, Maheshji Bhai Thakor, from the Thakor caste as his identify suggests, agreed.

    “Water is one of these giant factor that folks can vote for an individual from any other caste if it will get resolved. Each Kag and Thakor describe Congress MLA as a just right guy. The going, they stated, might be tricky for him this time with the Congress showing to punch above its weight. Gulab Singh is all the time there to assist other folks however other folks need any individual who will take a seat in Ahmedabad and get to the bottom of their variations,” Thakor stated.

    Addressing a rally within the constituency just lately, Union House Minister Amit Shah stated Chaudhary will develop into a large guy if he wins the election.

    Singh has been carrying out a low-key, going door-to-door and assembly elders and children from each and every caste. He has been speaking at period concerning the water shortage factor in his speech, blaming the BJP which has been in energy for just about 3 many years for it.

    Within the 2017 Gujarat meeting election, BJP’s Parbatbhai Savabhai Patel gained the election however later left the seat upon getting elected as MP from Banaskantha district. Congress’ Gulab Singh gained defeating the BJP candidate within the bypoll in 2019.

    In 2017, Chaudhary contested from the Vav constituency of Banaskantha and misplaced to Congress’s Geniben Thakor.

    The Gujarat elections are being held over two levels, on December 1 and 5. The votes might be counted on December 8.

  • Lifestyles at the different aspect: two decades after educate carnage, communal fissures run deep in Godhra

    By means of PTI

    GODHRA: A street cleaves thru, marking the divide between Muslim-dominated spaces and Hindu-majority localities, a metaphor most likely for communal fissures that run deep in a the city that in an instant recollects the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    20 years after the burning of a educate in Godhra killed 59 ‘karsevaks’ and brought on one among India’s worst post-Partition riots, the poll-scape displays the yawning gulf between the 2 communities.

    Whilst a number of minority group citizens whinge of no construction of their localities, other folks from different spaces of the town admit to issues however say they are going to vote at the factor of Hindutva and High Minister Narendra Modi’s recognition.

    Corruption, emerging unemployment and anti-incumbency in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) that has been ruling the state for 27 years stay main problems on this delicate constituency. On the other hand, Hindutva and Modi are figuring out elements and might conquer all of them.
    ALSO READ | Taught a lesson to 2002 rioters, says Amit Shah

    The street cuts thru Patelwada and Polan Bazaar house close to Rani Masjid, the previous house to maximum Hindus and different communities and the latter ruled by way of Muslims.

    And the diversities are visual.

    Polan Bazaar and its surrounding spaces are crisscrossed by way of potholed, shoddily patchworked roads, rubbish piled up at the aspects and a choked drain winding thru a distance away.

    The roads at the different aspect of the Muslim ghetto are large.

    The Gujarat Commercial Construction Company (GIDC) properties small commercial gadgets. There could also be a theatre, a Pantaloon showroom, and automobile showrooms.

    “There are not any banks, ATMs, playgrounds on our aspect of the city,” Ishak Bokda, a supporter of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s (AIMIM), instructed PTI.

    “Construction has all the time been at the different aspect ruled by way of Hindus and different communities,” added Faisal Suleja, AIMIM’s councillor. The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM surprised everybody remaining 12 months by way of bagging seven seats within the 44-member civic frame.

    Godhra has round 2,79,000 citizens. Of those, 72,000 are within the Muslim-dominated house.

    Because the marketing campaign alternatives up for the 182-member Meeting elections being held over two levels on December 1 and 5, maximum bets are on BJP’s sitting MLA C Okay Raulji who has been representing Godhra since 2007 — from 2007 to 2016 as a part of the Congress and the saffron birthday celebration since 2017.

    In opposition to him are the Congress’ Rashmitaben Chauhan, new entrant Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration’s (AAP) Rajeshbhai Patel and AIMIM’s Shabbir Kachba who is looking for to cement the positive factors made by way of the birthday celebration within the civic polls remaining 12 months.

    Kachba, a 33-year-old native imam, accused Raulji of no longer addressing the problems confronted by way of the constituency, which votes in the second one segment.

    “Extra importantly, how can an individual who referred to as Bilkis Bano case convicts ‘sanskari’ be elected,” he stated, relating to Raulji’s feedback on the ones convicted within the 2002 gangrape and homicide case. They have got now been freed.

    In line with Raulji, his major schedule can be to completely put into effect the initiatives began in 2017, together with a 400-bed scientific faculty and an irrigation venture for 104 villages.

    The pandemic, loss of alternatives and construction are a relentless fear.

    No riots had been reported after 2002 from this the city within the Panchmahal district of Gujarat which has had a chequered historical past of communal riots since Independence.

    The polarisation is obvious. Many expressed their unhappiness with the ruling BJP however stated they might once more vote for the birthday celebration.

    Manish Shah, 48, a restaurateur and actual property developer who misplaced his mom to Covid and stated loss of main industries and corruption are main problems in Godhra.

    “However we can vote at the factor of Hindutva and High Minister Narendra Modi’s recognition,” Shah instructed PTI. Shah stated he owned an oil depot on a street that borders the Muslim house of the town however bought his assets in 2011 and ventured into actual property.

    His trade spouse Indubhai Bhojwani, 53, stated corruption is a matter “however the protection of Hindus is a very powerful issue.”

    Mukeshbhai Relwani, 47, who owns a paan store at Lalbaug Chowk stated he’s going to “bleed lotus (the logo of BJP)” if his vein is lower. “That (the opposite aspect the place the Muslims live) is mini-Pakistan. My vote can be for Hindutva,” he stated reflecting the mistrust between the 2 communities.
    ALSO READ | No subject material to strengthen 2002 Godhra riots have been pre-planned occasions: SC

    On the other hand, Relwani additionally stated the BJP would had been no doubt defeated if the opposition had fielded more potent applicants.

    “There’s no possibility,” stated a businessman on situation of anonymity.

    Harin Patel, 43, who’s into mining stated he needed to ship his son away to check engineering as a result of Godhra lacks faculties that supply high quality schooling.

    Some in the more youthful lot spoke in their willingness to provide the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP an opportunity. Number one elements, they stated, have been unemployment and loss of alternatives.

    Deepak Padhiyar, 19, a second-year scholar on the Seth PT Arts and Science and Regulation School stated he had implemented for the publish of a police constable however may no longer transparent the written examination however his quest for a greater lifestyles will proceed.

    His father is a cobbler with the State Reserve Police Drive and his mom is a homemaker who additionally takes care in their shoes store.

    “There may be rarely any source of revenue from the store. Now I need to practice for the publish of Talati (earnings officer). This time my choice can be to AAP,” Padhiyar stated, bringing up the ‘Delhi fashion of governance’.

    Srimali Kirit (22), a first-year regulation scholar, claimed unemployment is a an important issue right here.

    “This (BJP) govt is emphasising on contractual staff who haven’t any pension. There may be want for presidency jobs with the implementation of the previous pension scheme that can give staff coverage after retirement,” Kirit stated.

    Kirit stated his father is not more and his mom will get a pension of Rs 12,000 and some other pension of Rs 1,200 beneath a central scheme for widows, no longer sufficient for the circle of relatives to maintain their livelihood.

    The AAP has been pushing for the previous pension scheme (OPS) in Gujarat whether it is voted to energy.

    The Gujarat govt offered a brand new contributory pension scheme for staff becoming a member of the carrier on or after April 1, 2005. In line with the notification, it’ll make an identical contribution of 10 in keeping with cent of the fundamental pay plus dearness allowance contributed by way of the workers within the NPS fund.

    Underneath the Centre’s scheme, the federal government will give a contribution 14 in keeping with cent in opposition to an worker’s contribution of 10 in keeping with cent of his/her wage and DA with impact from April 1, 2019.

    After protests by way of staff, the state govt stated the brand new pension may not be acceptable to these staff who had joined responsibility prior to April 2005.

    It additionally promised to extend its contribution to the fund to fourteen in keeping with cent from 10 in keeping with cent previous.

    The workers have staged huge agitations in opposition to the federal government in Gujarat whilst tough recovery of the OPS as a result of they imagine the NPS isn’t within the pastime of retiring staff.

    GODHRA: A street cleaves thru, marking the divide between Muslim-dominated spaces and Hindu-majority localities, a metaphor most likely for communal fissures that run deep in a the city that in an instant recollects the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    20 years after the burning of a educate in Godhra killed 59 ‘karsevaks’ and brought on one among India’s worst post-Partition riots, the poll-scape displays the yawning gulf between the 2 communities.

    Whilst a number of minority group citizens whinge of no construction of their localities, other folks from different spaces of the town admit to issues however say they are going to vote at the factor of Hindutva and High Minister Narendra Modi’s recognition.

    Corruption, emerging unemployment and anti-incumbency in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) that has been ruling the state for 27 years stay main problems on this delicate constituency. On the other hand, Hindutva and Modi are figuring out elements and might conquer all of them.ALSO READ | Taught a lesson to 2002 rioters, says Amit Shah

    The street cuts thru Patelwada and Polan Bazaar house close to Rani Masjid, the previous house to maximum Hindus and different communities and the latter ruled by way of Muslims.

    And the diversities are visual.

    Polan Bazaar and its surrounding spaces are crisscrossed by way of potholed, shoddily patchworked roads, rubbish piled up at the aspects and a choked drain winding thru a distance away.

    The roads at the different aspect of the Muslim ghetto are large.

    The Gujarat Commercial Construction Company (GIDC) properties small commercial gadgets. There could also be a theatre, a Pantaloon showroom, and automobile showrooms.

    “There are not any banks, ATMs, playgrounds on our aspect of the city,” Ishak Bokda, a supporter of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s (AIMIM), instructed PTI.

    “Construction has all the time been at the different aspect ruled by way of Hindus and different communities,” added Faisal Suleja, AIMIM’s councillor. The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM surprised everybody remaining 12 months by way of bagging seven seats within the 44-member civic frame.

    Godhra has round 2,79,000 citizens. Of those, 72,000 are within the Muslim-dominated house.

    Because the marketing campaign alternatives up for the 182-member Meeting elections being held over two levels on December 1 and 5, maximum bets are on BJP’s sitting MLA C Okay Raulji who has been representing Godhra since 2007 — from 2007 to 2016 as a part of the Congress and the saffron birthday celebration since 2017.

    In opposition to him are the Congress’ Rashmitaben Chauhan, new entrant Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration’s (AAP) Rajeshbhai Patel and AIMIM’s Shabbir Kachba who is looking for to cement the positive factors made by way of the birthday celebration within the civic polls remaining 12 months.

    Kachba, a 33-year-old native imam, accused Raulji of no longer addressing the problems confronted by way of the constituency, which votes in the second one segment.

    “Extra importantly, how can an individual who referred to as Bilkis Bano case convicts ‘sanskari’ be elected,” he stated, relating to Raulji’s feedback on the ones convicted within the 2002 gangrape and homicide case. They have got now been freed.

    In line with Raulji, his major schedule can be to completely put into effect the initiatives began in 2017, together with a 400-bed scientific faculty and an irrigation venture for 104 villages.

    The pandemic, loss of alternatives and construction are a relentless fear.

    No riots had been reported after 2002 from this the city within the Panchmahal district of Gujarat which has had a chequered historical past of communal riots since Independence.

    The polarisation is obvious. Many expressed their unhappiness with the ruling BJP however stated they might once more vote for the birthday celebration.

    Manish Shah, 48, a restaurateur and actual property developer who misplaced his mom to Covid and stated loss of main industries and corruption are main problems in Godhra.

    “However we can vote at the factor of Hindutva and High Minister Narendra Modi’s recognition,” Shah instructed PTI. Shah stated he owned an oil depot on a street that borders the Muslim house of the town however bought his assets in 2011 and ventured into actual property.

    His trade spouse Indubhai Bhojwani, 53, stated corruption is a matter “however the protection of Hindus is a very powerful issue.”

    Mukeshbhai Relwani, 47, who owns a paan store at Lalbaug Chowk stated he’s going to “bleed lotus (the logo of BJP)” if his vein is lower. “That (the opposite aspect the place the Muslims live) is mini-Pakistan. My vote can be for Hindutva,” he stated reflecting the mistrust between the 2 communities.ALSO READ | No subject material to strengthen 2002 Godhra riots have been pre-planned occasions: SC

    On the other hand, Relwani additionally stated the BJP would had been no doubt defeated if the opposition had fielded more potent applicants.

    “There’s no possibility,” stated a businessman on situation of anonymity.

    Harin Patel, 43, who’s into mining stated he needed to ship his son away to check engineering as a result of Godhra lacks faculties that supply high quality schooling.

    Some in the more youthful lot spoke in their willingness to provide the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP an opportunity. Number one elements, they stated, have been unemployment and loss of alternatives.

    Deepak Padhiyar, 19, a second-year scholar on the Seth PT Arts and Science and Regulation School stated he had implemented for the publish of a police constable however may no longer transparent the written examination however his quest for a greater lifestyles will proceed.

    His father is a cobbler with the State Reserve Police Drive and his mom is a homemaker who additionally takes care in their shoes store.

    “There may be rarely any source of revenue from the store. Now I need to practice for the publish of Talati (earnings officer). This time my choice can be to AAP,” Padhiyar stated, bringing up the ‘Delhi fashion of governance’.

    Srimali Kirit (22), a first-year regulation scholar, claimed unemployment is a an important issue right here.

    “This (BJP) govt is emphasising on contractual staff who haven’t any pension. There may be want for presidency jobs with the implementation of the previous pension scheme that can give staff coverage after retirement,” Kirit stated.

    Kirit stated his father is not more and his mom will get a pension of Rs 12,000 and some other pension of Rs 1,200 beneath a central scheme for widows, no longer sufficient for the circle of relatives to maintain their livelihood.

    The AAP has been pushing for the previous pension scheme (OPS) in Gujarat whether it is voted to energy.

    The Gujarat govt offered a brand new contributory pension scheme for staff becoming a member of the carrier on or after April 1, 2005. In line with the notification, it’ll make an identical contribution of 10 in keeping with cent of the fundamental pay plus dearness allowance contributed by way of the workers within the NPS fund.

    Underneath the Centre’s scheme, the federal government will give a contribution 14 in keeping with cent in opposition to an worker’s contribution of 10 in keeping with cent of his/her wage and DA with impact from April 1, 2019.

    After protests by way of staff, the state govt stated the brand new pension may not be acceptable to these staff who had joined responsibility prior to April 2005.

    It additionally promised to extend its contribution to the fund to fourteen in keeping with cent from 10 in keeping with cent previous.

    The workers have staged huge agitations in opposition to the federal government in Gujarat whilst tough recovery of the OPS as a result of they imagine the NPS isn’t within the pastime of retiring staff.

  • Cong subsidized perpetrators of violence; BJP established everlasting peace in Gujarat put up ’02: Amit Shah

    Shah claimed that Gujarat witnessed riots in 2002 as a result of perpetrators turned into routine of indulging in violence because of the extended enhance they gained from the Congress.

  • Rs 75 lakh money seized from automotive in Surat, VIP go bearing Congress neta’s identify discovered: Officers

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    AHMEDABAD: The Static Surveillance workforce (SST) on Wednesday seized Rs 75 lakh in money from Innova automotive quantity MH.04. ES.9907 parked at Rangrej Tower close to Jadakhadi Mohalla in Mahidhar Pura house of Surat Town. simply days forward of the meeting elections.

    On Tuesday evening, the workforce intercepted a automotive with 3 occupants and on looking out, it discovered Rs 75 lakh in money.

    Two individuals — Uday Gurjar who belongs to Delhi, and Mohammad Faiz, who belongs to Surat, had been detained and wondered by way of the police. Police resources claimed a 3rd individual identify Sandeep controlled to flee.

    All over investigation, police resources discovered that an Innova automotive was once registered below the identify of ‘Vinayak Travels’.

    SST officers additionally mentioned they discovered leaflets of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s Surat rally from the car beside a VIP automotive go bearing the identify of B.M. Sandeep, the AICC secretary and the birthday celebration’s in-charge of South Gujarat area.

    Surat BJP media spokesperson Jagdish Patel alleged that this signifies the involvement of a Congress chief. He claimed that additional investigation will disclose whose cash it’s.

    Refuting the allegations, Gujarat Congress President Jagdish Thakor known as it a ‘conspiracy’ to defame the birthday celebration. “Let the police examine the case, whoever is responsible should be punished. Congress by no means saves the responsible,” he mentioned.

    Police resources mentioned that the Source of revenue Tax division will behavior additional investigation.

    Gujarat which has 182 meeting constituencies will opt for polling in two levels on December 1 and 5. The counting of votes will happen on December 8, which coincides with Himachal Pradesh’s end result date.

    AHMEDABAD: The Static Surveillance workforce (SST) on Wednesday seized Rs 75 lakh in money from Innova automotive quantity MH.04. ES.9907 parked at Rangrej Tower close to Jadakhadi Mohalla in Mahidhar Pura house of Surat Town. simply days forward of the meeting elections.

    On Tuesday evening, the workforce intercepted a automotive with 3 occupants and on looking out, it discovered Rs 75 lakh in money.

    Two individuals — Uday Gurjar who belongs to Delhi, and Mohammad Faiz, who belongs to Surat, had been detained and wondered by way of the police. Police resources claimed a 3rd individual identify Sandeep controlled to flee.

    All over investigation, police resources discovered that an Innova automotive was once registered below the identify of ‘Vinayak Travels’.

    SST officers additionally mentioned they discovered leaflets of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s Surat rally from the car beside a VIP automotive go bearing the identify of B.M. Sandeep, the AICC secretary and the birthday celebration’s in-charge of South Gujarat area.

    Surat BJP media spokesperson Jagdish Patel alleged that this signifies the involvement of a Congress chief. He claimed that additional investigation will disclose whose cash it’s.

    Refuting the allegations, Gujarat Congress President Jagdish Thakor known as it a ‘conspiracy’ to defame the birthday celebration. “Let the police examine the case, whoever is responsible should be punished. Congress by no means saves the responsible,” he mentioned.

    Police resources mentioned that the Source of revenue Tax division will behavior additional investigation.

    Gujarat which has 182 meeting constituencies will opt for polling in two levels on December 1 and 5. The counting of votes will happen on December 8, which coincides with Himachal Pradesh’s end result date.