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  • Kejriwal guarantees loose pilgrimage, loose energy if AAP bureaucracy government in Gujarat

    Through PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration convener and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday promised loose pilgrimage for senior electorate to more than a few spiritual puts, together with Ayodhya, if the AAP was once voted to energy in Gujarat, and accused the ruling BJP of “failure” on more than one fronts in spite of being in energy within the state for almost 3 many years.

    He additionally promised loose electrical energy, higher colleges and hospitals if the AAP bureaucracy the following govt in Gujarat, the place the Meeting polls are due through the year-end.

    Addressing a rally in Rajkot town, Kejriwal accused the BJP of “failing” on training, well being and employment fronts in Gujarat all the way through its lengthy rule within the state.

    “Even though the BJP is in energy for 27 years in Gujarat, it hasn’t ever despatched a unmarried particular person on pilgrimage. In Delhi, we despatched 50,000 individuals on pilgrimage in 3 years below our scheme. If voted to energy right here (in Gujarat), we will be able to take each aged citizen to spiritual puts free of charge,” stated Kejriwal.

    The AAP chief, whose celebration just lately shaped its govt in Punjab, requested the folks of Gujarat to offer his outfit an opportunity to manipulate the state, a BJP stronghold.

    “The AAP is a celebration of trained, fair and patriotic other people. I beg the folks to offer us one likelihood, a minimum of to wreck the ego of the BJP. If you don’t to find our paintings enough, you might be loose to select another celebration afterwards,” he added.

  • Keep in contact with electorate, lift pro-people problems to win polls: Rahul tells Gujarat Cong MLAs

    By way of PTI

    DAHOD: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday requested celebration MLAs within the BJP-ruled Gujarat to stay in consistent contact with humans of their respective constituencies and vociferously lift their problems as tactics to win the boldness of electorate as he delivered a pep communicate to legislators forward of the Meeting polls and stated the state unit goal of profitable 125 seats used to be achievable.

    After addressing a rally, Gandhi held a closed-door assembly with Congress MLAs at an auditorium in Dahod town of Gujarat. The previous Congress president additionally met the celebration’s tribal leaders in Gujarat one by one on the identical venue.

    Unbiased MLA Jignesh Mevani, who gained from Vadgam in Banaskantha district in 2017 with the Congress strengthen, additionally attended the assembly.

    “Rahulji requested the entire MLAs to stay in consistent contact with humans. He informed us that folks will put consider in us if we combat for them and get to the bottom of their problems,” Congress MLA Himmatsinh Patel informed newshounds after the assembly.

    Senior Congress MLA Shailesh Parmar stated Gandhi informed the legislators that the celebration, which is within the opposition within the state for greater than 20 years now, will shape the following executive in Gujarat through profitable 125 seats (a goal set through the state unit) out of the overall 182.

    “He stated the celebration will combat the elections on problems regarding farmers, youths, tribals and Scheduled Castes. Unemployment can be a big factor within the resulting polls. Rahulji additionally congratulated the entire 64 sitting MLAs for being within the Congress regardless of the BJP’s ways to damage the celebration,” stated Parmar.

    The Congress’s Dalit MLA, Naushad Solanki, stated Gandhi expressed fear over celebration staff no longer with the ability to persuade humans about worth upward thrust underneath the BJP rule and its hostile affect on their lives.

    “Although persons are struggling so much because of worth upward thrust, Rahulji stated Congress staff have been nonetheless lagging at the back of in developing that belief a few of the lots,” stated Solanki.

    Younger Congress MLA Vimal Chudasama stated the Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad requested legislators to proportion problems region-wise comparable to Saurashtra, north Gujarat, south Gujarat and western Gujarat.

    Mevani, who additionally attended the assembly, stated Gandhi asserted it’s conceivable for the Congress to win the Meeting elections in Gujarat, due through the year-end, this time because the celebration had narrowly ignored the bulk mark in 2017.

    Within the earlier elections, the BJP retained energy through profitable 99 seats, whilst the Congress gained 77. Later, a number of Congress MLAs resigned and joined the BJP.

  • Rahul Gandhi to seek advice from Gujarat on Might 10 to woo tribals 

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will probably be on an afternoon’s seek advice from to the poll-bound Gujarat on Tuesday the place he’s going to deal with a gathering of tribals in Dahod.

    He’ll be addressing a public assembly ‘Adivasi Satyagraha Rally’ at Navjivan Arts and Trade School in Dahod, the celebration stated.

    Later within the day, Gandhi would deal with a gathering of Congress MLAs at Swami Vivekanand Sankul, Govind Nagar in Dahod.

    Throughout his seek advice from, Gandhi will dangle any other assembly with Gujarat tribal leaders on the identical venue.

    The seek advice from comes after Top Minister Narendra Modi attended a tribal meet in Dahod on April 20 the place he introduced the putting in of a Rs 20,000-crore railway workshop.

    The Gandhi’s seek advice from additionally comes within the wake of factionalism within the Gujarat unit of the celebration forward of meeting polls slated later this yr.

    Just lately, a tribal chief and legislator Ashwin Kotwal hand over the celebration and joined the BJP.

  • Woo communities forward of ballot, SC, ST leaders instructed

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    AHMEDABAD:  Assuming that SC, ST electorate may just play a very powerful function within the upcoming Gujarat election, the ruling BJP is attempting to confirm why those communities were aligning with the Congress in previous polls. BJP nationwide normal secretary BL Santosh, who’s in Gujarat on a two-day discuss with, had a closed-door assembly with the BJP’s Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe leaders on the birthday celebration’s state headquarters on Wednesday. 

    It’s learnt that Santosh has directed the birthday celebration’s SC/ST leaders to paintings against molding the communities against the saffron birthday celebration. After his arrival in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, Santosh visited the RSS place of work within the town and mentioned the comments at the state executive from voters with Sangh functionaries. Later within the night, he had a closed-door assembly with RSS prant pracharak, Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel and BJP Gujarat BJP unit president CR Patil.

    Assets mentioned the assembly lasted round 3 hours and the leaders mentioned quite a lot of problems, together with the arrangements for the election. Later, Santosh left for Gandhinagar to satisfy with BJP state leaders. On Thursday, he’s anticipated to satisfy with former and incumbent ministers and MLAs in Gandhinagar.

    On his go back to Delhi, Santosh will probably be sitting down with BJP nationwide president JP Nadda and different senior leaders to percentage his evaluation after which plan methods for the Gujarat Meeting election. Going by means of Santosh’s remarks at the BJP adhering to the “no repetition” in Mysuru just lately, it’s speculated that the method could also be adopted in Gujarat polls too.

  • Jignesh Mevani calls Gujarat executive ‘pointless’ on his go back from Assam

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    AHMEDABAD: Dalit chief and MLA Jignesh Mevani on Tuesday arrived in Gujarat, just about two weeks after being arrested by way of the Assam police, and hit out on the state’s BJP executive calling it “nikamma” (pointless) for doing not anything when a legislator from the state used to be “abducted” and brought away.

    Addressing a meeting quickly after touchdown in Ahmedabad, Mevani additionally threatened to offer a decision for ‘Gujarat bandh’ on June 1 if instances towards Dalits in Una tehsil (filed over protests put up attack on some Dalits in July 2016) and different agitators within the state don’t seem to be withdrawn and calls for of grade pay for policemen and different protesting teams no longer met by way of the federal government.

    “I want to inform the Gujarat executive that you’re so ‘nikamma’ (pointless), that it is advisable do not anything when the Assam police got here to Gujarat to trample upon its satisfaction. You will have to be embarrassed about it.

    “The Assam police kidnapping an MLA from Gujarat and taking him to Assam is an insult to six.5 crore other folks of Gujarat,” the unbiased MLA stated on the accumulating the place state Congress president Jagdish Thakor, and senior birthday celebration leaders like Arjun Modhwadia and Amit Chavda had been additionally provide.

    He made the folk assembled for the programme take an oath to by no means vote for the BJP or attend an RSS shakha.

    Mevani additionally focused the Assam executive for no longer announcing “sorry” over a decrease court docket’s essential commentary relating to an FIR filed towards him within the north-eastern state.

    “As a substitute of feeling ashamed over the commentary made by way of the court docket, wondering its moral sense and reviewing its persona, it (Assam executive) got here out with a keep order (from Gauhati Prime Courtroom) in order to not submit that evaluate order (of decrease court docket). However it’s not but able to ask for forgiveness,” he stated.

    Amongst different issues, the HC had stated that the decrease court docket’s commentary concerning the case towards Mevani showing to be “manufactured to stay him in custody for longer” used to be past its jurisdiction in a bail topic.

    Mevani arrived in Ahmedabad within the night to a powerful welcome by way of his supporters on the airport.

    The MLA from Vadgam in Banaskantha district thanked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and different nationwide and Congress leaders from Gujarat and Assam for his or her make stronger all through his arrest.

    Two weeks in the past, Mevani used to be picked up by way of the Assam police from Palanpur in Gujarat over his purported tweet towards High Minister Narendra Modi.

    Quickly after being launched on bail within the tweet case a couple of days in the past, he used to be rearrested for allegedly assaulting a policewoman who used to be a part of the police birthday celebration which accompanied him to Kokrajhar in Assam.

    The Gujarat MLA used to be granted bail in the second one case additionally and on Saturday closing he finished pending bail formalities at a court docket in Kokrajhar.

    He used to be granted permission by way of the court docket to depart the Assam the city as certainly one of his bail prerequisites used to be to stick throughout the limits of the court docket’s jurisdiction.

  • My arrest pre-planned conspiracy designed via PMO, act of cowardice: Jignesh Mevani

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Gujarat legislator Jignesh Mevani on Monday alleged that his arrest via the Assam Police is a pre-planned conspiracy “designed” via the Top Minister’s Place of work to break him forward of meeting elections within the state and termed it an act of “56-inch cowardice”.

    Mevani additionally introduced that he would take to the streets and make sure a Gujarat Bandh on June 1 on a raft of problems — in the hunt for motion towards the ones in the back of the leak of twenty-two examination papers, the hot restoration of “Rs 1.75 lakh-crore” value of substances from the Mundra Port, and to press for the withdrawal of all instances towards Dalits in Una and towards minorities within the state.

    “My arrest is an act of 56-inch cowardice and it has undermined Gujarat’s delight,” Mevani stated at a press convention in an obvious swipe at Top Minister Narendra Modi’s 56-inch chest statement.

    “My arrest via the Assam Police used to be a pre-planned conspiracy. It used to be in blatant forget to protocol and laws for an MLA,” added the Unbiased MLA from Vadgam who has pledged his beef up to the Congress.

    Mevani used to be picked up via the Assam Police from Gujarat on April 19 and brought to the northeastern state after a purported tweet that Modi “thought to be Godse as God”.

    After being launched on bail within the case, the Dalit chief used to be rearrested on fees of assaulting a policewoman.

    A court docket in Barpeta granted him bail within the case and steered the Gauhati Prime Courtroom to imagine directing the Assam Police to reform itself to ‘save you registration of false FIR like the existing case.

    ” Mevani stated he had best tweeted asking the top minister to offer a choice for peace and solidarity in Gujarat, a state he considers “Mahatma’s temple”. Does this imply you do not need to attraction for peace and solidarity. I problem BJP leaders to mention Godse murdabad from Crimson Fortress, if they aren’t Godse-bhakts,” he stated.

    “It’s my rate that it is a conspiracy designed via the Top Minister’s Place of work. Gujarat elections are due quickly and that is being achieved to break me. I worry there’s each probability that via now they’ll have planted one thing on my pc which has been seized via them,” he added on the Congress headquarters right here.

    Mevani additionally requested what the hobby of the BJP or the top minister might be in arresting him over a trifling tweet as though he have been a terrorist.

    “Such issues are very unhealthy for our democracy.” He alleged that the girl police officer used to be put below “force” to whinge towards him, however he’ll now not cross towards her “öut of generosity”.

    The try to harass him had failed, Mevani declared.

    On Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s declare that he used to be now not conscious about the arrest, he stated, “It’s unimaginable that the Assam CM does now not even find out about my arrest. He were given offences registered towards me on the example of his political bosses.”

    In Mevani’s view, it’s shameful that the judiciary had said that Assam is changing into a police state.

    Detailing his subsequent plan of action, he stated he would struggle all of the instances registered towards him.

    “The way during which all instances towards Patidar neighborhood registered all through their agitation had been taken again, all instances towards Dalits in Una and towards minorities in my Vadgam constituency must even be taken again “Paper leak instances be investigated via a SIT (Particular Investigation Crew) and Gautam Adani be investigated in terms of seizure of substances value Rs 1.75 lakh crore from Mundra port,” he stated placing out an inventory of calls for. The Gujarat legislator stated there were 22 paper leaks in Gujarat, Rs 1.75 lakh crore value of substances present in Mundra port and a Dalit girl pressed rape fees towards a sitting minister, a subject that used to be mentioned within the Gujarat meeting.

    No motion has been taken in those instances.

    But even so, Mevani added, there used to be no motion towards the organisers of a Dharam Sansad for genocide towards a selected neighborhood however there have been two FIRs towards him on a tweet and a girl used to be used to get any other case registered.

    “What does it display? What’s the goal and precedence of the Modi executive?” he requested.

  • Balasaheb had subsidized Narendra Modi amid call for for his ouster as Gujarat CM after Godhra riots: Uddhav Thackeray

    Uddhav Thackeray mentioned a requirement used to be being raised to take away Modi as Gujarat CM when BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee used to be the High Minister of the rustic.

  • Gujarat Meeting polls: AAP to paintings with BTP of tribal chief Chhotu Vasava, says Kejriwal

    By means of PTI

    BHARUCH: Forward of the Gujarat Meeting polls due later this yr, Aam Aadmi Celebration’s nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday stated he stands with the tribals of Gujarat and is excited to paintings with Bharatiya Tribal Celebration (BTP) founder Chhotu Vasava to convey a couple of trade within the state and make stronger lives of the deficient.

    In his first public rally in Gujarat forward of the Meeting elections, the Delhi leader minister stated whilst the ruling BJP and opposition Congress stand with the wealthy, he stands with Chhotu Vasava, the latter’s more youthful brother and BTP’s nationwide president Mahesh Vasava and the state’s deficient other folks.

    “It’s an understatement that two richest individuals of our nation come from Gujarat, and the poorest tribals of our nation also are from Gujarat. In Dahod, Chhota Udepur, Aravalli, Dang — there are lots of spaces the place one of the crucial poorest other folks are living,” Kejriwal stated on the ‘Adivasi Sankalp Maha Sammelan’ organised collectively with the BTP at Chanderiya village in Bharuch.

    “The BJP and Congress stand with the wealthy. They’re making the wealthy richer. I’m right here to inform you Chhotubhai and Maheshbhai that Kejriwal and AAP, we stand with you, we stand with the deficient. Give us a possibility, we will be able to take away your poverty, teach your youngsters, make hospitals for you and provide you with a task,” he claimed.

    Kejriwal thanked the 2 BTP leaders for inviting him to the rally. “We will be able to paintings in combination to switch Gujarat,” the AAP chief stated.

    Within the 2017 state Meeting polls, the BTP had shaped an alliance with the Congress and received two seats.

    At the instance of Gujarat’s basis day on Sunday, Kejriwal additionally centered the BJP over its state president C R Paatil, and claimed there can’t be a larger insult of the state’s other folks than the ruling birthday celebration appointing “a person from Maharashtra” as its leader.

    “Who’s the president of Gujarat BJP? C R Paatil. The place does he are living? He lives in Maharashtra. The BJP may no longer discover a president from amongst 6.5 crore Gujarat electorate such an insult of the folk of Gujarat,” he stated.

    The AAP leader additionally criticised the Gujarat BJP govt over the “pathetic” situation of presidency faculties within the state.

    He claimed that 6,000 faculties in Gujarat have been close by way of the state govt below the pretext of being merged, and sought other folks’s make stronger to make stronger the situation of colleges within the state, like performed by way of his govt in Delhi.

    Kejriwal additionally invited Gujarat Leader Minister Bhupendra Patel to seek advice from faculties and hospitals in Delhi and no longer criticise tthe AAP govt there”similar to that”.

    Kejriwal stated the BJP, in spite of being in energy in Gujarat for 27 years, “failed” to make stronger the situation of presidency faculties.

    “Give them 5 extra years and they’ll do not anything. Gujarat won’t make stronger. Give us one likelihood, and if we don’t make stronger the stipulations of all faculties, kick us out,” he stated.

    The AAP chief additionally promised unfastened electrical energy, corruption-free govt services and products, doorstep supply of public services and products and employment era for other folks of Gujarat, if voted to energy. “Ruin their (BJP’s) conceitedness as soon as and vote for the AAP,” he stated.

    Kejriwal stated he has heard that the BJP desires early election in Gujarat.

    “They’re frightened of AAP. They are saying if we (AAP) get time until December, then they (BJP) will lose Gujarat. They would like the election to be held now,” he claimed.

    Kejriwal additionally invited leaders of the Gujarat Congress to enroll in AAP. “Now that not anything is left of of the birthday celebration (Congress), there’s no level in vote casting for it,” he stated.

    He made a equivalent attraction to BJP leaders, claiming that “Gujarat is getting destroyed below the BJP”. “Bring to mind Gujarat and the rustic,” he instructed the collection.

  • In UK Parliament, Opposition criticises PM Boris Johnson’s talk over with to Gujarat JCB manufacturing unit

    The Opposition events in the United Kingdom have puzzled in Parliament Top Minister Boris Johnson’s determination to talk over with a British-owned bulldozer manufacturing unit in Gujarat throughout his talk over with to India final week.

    Plenty of Labour Birthday party MPs, together with Indian-origin Nadia Whittome, puzzled Johnson’s talk over with to the JCB manufacturing unit in Halol regardless of using one of the crucial corporate’s apparatus within the arguable demolition of houses in north-west Delhi within the wake of latest communal clashes in Jahangirpuri.

    The manufacturing unit talk over with had created a stir throughout social media, pointing to using JCB apparatus within the Municipal Company of Delhi’s “anti-encroachment” force in Delhi, a subject matter referred to the courts.

    The BJP (Modi’s governing birthday party) is the use of JCB diggers to bulldoze the houses and stores of Muslims.

    Boris Johnson posed with JCB diggers on his fresh talk over with to India, however his minister wouldn’t say whether or not he even raised those demolitions with Modi. percent.twitter.com/aIWVw5TLIl

    — Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) April 28, 2022

    All through an ‘Pressing Query’ tabled within the Space of Commons on Tuesday via the Scottish Nationwide Birthday party (SNP) member of Parliament, Ian Blackford, the Opposition raised cries of “the place is he?” after a junior minister was once left to respond to questions at the subject of “Top Minister’s Discuss with to India”.

    Vicky Ford, the Below-Secretary of State within the International, Commonwealth and Construction Administrative center (FCDO), was once deputed on behalf of the federal government and stated the talk over with would “supercharge” the UK-India buying and selling courting and that the problem of human rights is considered similarly essential.

    At a time when #bulldozers have transform a significant speaking level within the nation, #UK Top Minister #BorisJohnson took the social media via hurricane via leaping onto a bulldozer throughout his talk over with to British heavy apparatus maker JCB’s plant at Halol commercial house close to Gujarat’s Vadodara. percent.twitter.com/cG8dK1ZOFB

    — IANS (@ians_india) April 21, 2022

    “We don’t pursue business on the exclusion of human rights,” stated Ford.

    “We regard each as a very powerful a part of a deep, mature and wide-ranging courting with our companions. The partnership with India is essential for each our international locations,” she stated.

    “If we now have considerations, we elevate them without delay with the Executive of India. Our community of deputy prime commissions will proceed to apply the studies carefully, whilst additionally recognising that this can be a topic for India,” Ford stated.

  • Courtroom sends Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani to one-day judicial custody; will listen bail on Monday 

    Through PTI

    KOKRAJHAR: An area courtroom right here on Sunday despatched Gujarat Impartial legislator Jignesh Mevani, arrested from the western state via Assam Police on Wednesday for a purported Tweet towards the high minister, to one-day judicial custody, a police reliable stated.

    The listening to in his case, together with his bail petition, might be taken up on Monday, he added.

    Further superintendent of police of Kokrajhar Surjit Singh Panesar advised journalists right here that the courtroom of the Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) determined to remand him to in the future of judicial custody.

    Mevani’s three-day police custody had ended on Sunday, and then he used to be produced prior to the courtroom overdue within the night time.

    Panesar additionally stated Mevani might be produced once more on the courtroom on Monday morning and his listening to will proceed, together with on his bail petition.

    Mevani, noticed with an Assamese gamocha (conventional towel) round his neck, used to be taken to the Kokrajhar prison from the place of abode of the CJM, the place the listening to used to be held.

    Mevani, an Impartial MLA supported via the Congress, used to be apprehended from Palanpur the town in Gujarat on Wednesday night time after a First Knowledge File (FIR) beneath quite a lot of sections of the IPC and the IT Act used to be filed in Kokrajhar Police Station over his purported tweet towards the high minister.

    In keeping with the FIR, he had purportedly posted a tweet, claiming High Minister Narendra Modi “thought to be Godse as God”.

    Mevani used to be flown to Guwahati from Gujarat on Thursday morning after which taken to Kokrajhar via street, the place he used to be produced on the leader judicial Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, which remanded him to 3 days’ police custody.