Ahmedabad, 24 May, 2012

Presented above are two videos. The first video presents protest events organized in Ahmedabad today against petrol price hike.The second video contains voices of common man, and BJP MP against petrol price hike of Rs 7.50.

Junagadh, 23 May 2012

If you thought the story of Shravan can happen only in past era, you need to look at this real story of 21st century’s Shravan.

Here is Giri Brahmachari, a Sadhu who is on countrywide pilgrim tour with his mother.

After visiting Kedarnath, Jagannath puri, Tirputari, Shrinathji, Varanasi, Banaras, Pushkar, Dwarka and Somnath he was in Junagadh today with his mother.

This modern-day Shravankumar started his pilgrim tour with his mother and father both, but his father died on the way, therefore he then started putting a big stone and other necessary things inside one basket to balance with the other basket in which his mother sits.

Kailash Giri is on pilgrim toure of India for last 16 years, five months and 17 days. He believes that everyone should serve their parents.

Kailash Giri took his mother Kirtidevi(Jabalpu, Madhya Pradesh) to 3100 ft height of mount Girnar for darshan of Ambaji mandir.

Vadodara, 23 May 2012

Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia was in Vadodara today to pay homage to late Maharaja Ranjitsinhji Gaikwad.

In a brief talk with media persons, Vasundhara Raje praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his works.

She said, “the people of Gujarat progressive in thinking, the state developing fast socially and in the areas of business. it’s pleasure to meet the people of this state.”

“The way this state has progressed, I wish that other states located next to it, and my state too develop in this way. Such endeavor will to see an emergence of a new nation. I think all chief ministers works in this direction but the way Narendra Modi and BJP have transformed the state, if feels nice to see,” she added.

Ahmedabad, 22 May 2012

Reiterating its demand for removal of Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal from her post over an alleged land scam, BJP today threatened to launch an agitation, if she did not tender her resignation in next three days.

BJP general secretary Kirit Somaiya, who is also the coordinator of party’s Anti Corruption Cell, had yesterday alleged that Beniwal had tried to acquire a huge piece of land in Rajasthan by submitting false information about herself. Somaiya, who had yesterday held a press conference in Rajkot on the same issue, today briefed reporters here.

He reiterated the charges against Governor, saying she had submitted ‘false’ information about herself being a farmer in order to acquire a piece of land in Rajasthan.

“Beniwal has given information to acquire the land by saying that she is a farmer and spends sixteen hours daily in farming. The information is totally incorrect and false as how can a person like a Governor spend 16 hours daily in the farm,” Somaiya told reporters here.

“Either Beniwal should resign from Governor’s post or an inquiry should be ordered against her to find out her role in the case”, he said.

If she does not respond in the next three days, then we will discuss the issue in our national executive meeting to be held in Mumbai and plan out agitational programmes against her, he added.

Ahmedabad, 22 May 2012

In a press conference held at BJP headquarter in Ahmedabad, BJP’s national secretary Kirit Somaiya said Pranab Mukherjee’s recent white paper was actually a black paper. With facts and figures, he raised a question whether Rupee, Dollar fluctuation is UPA’s scam? He demanded probe in this regard on behalf of the party. Somaiya lashed out at UPA for hiding the names of black money owners supplied by European nation.

Vadodara, 22 May 2012

There’s an incident of fire in Racecourse building near Natubhai circle in Vadodara. The fire broke out in the basement area, but the smoke traveled to fourth and fifth floors in vertical shape through cable duct which played a role of carrier. All those on fourth and fifth floor came outside in the gallery area. Having received a call at 3.00 pm, the fire jawans rushed to the spot and rescued the people on upper floors through snorkel with hour. Gujarat government’s disaster management team also arrived on the spot within minutes. Those injured were taken to the hospital.

Ahmedabad, 21 May 2012

Presented above is a video containing Gujarat Congress President Arjun Modhwadia’s conversation with the media persons on the occasion of anniversary of Late Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi.

Ahmedabad, 21 May 2012

Star cast of the film Yeh Khula Aasman was on visit to Ahmedabad on promotion tour. The film is produced by Gitanjali creations. The story of the film revolves arond Avinash, a young intelligent boy going through an extremely challenging phase of life due to his academic failures. He feels an immense vacuum which unfortunately his busy parents are unable to fill. In desperation he visits his grandfather (Dadu, a role played by Raghubir Yadav) after several years.

Being the best kite runner of his era, Dadu subtly imparts lessons of life using the ‘kite’ as a metaphor for ‘life’. Under Dady’s company Avinash discovers many unexplored yet invaluable facets of life finding true friendship, love and inspiration to lead a life full of hope, joy and success.

The role of Avinash is played by Raj Tandon while the centre of attraction of the film, a beautiful girl Anya Anand plays role of Muskaan.

The film is directed by Gitanjali Sinha. Anand Milind are music director of the film.

Ahmedabad, 20 May 2012

Mahee production‘s Gujarati film Veer Hamirji Gohil, Somnath ni sakhate will release on 25 May in major theatres of Ahmedabad, Rajkot and other parts of Saurashtra and Gujarat. The film is based on Zaverchand Meghani, Kalapi and Jaymalla Parmar’s writings on Gujarati bravery icon of medieval era, Veer Hamirsinhji Gohil.

Hamirsinhji Gohil was a young brave man who attempted to prevent Shri Somnath Mandir with his small team of brave youths, when Islamic Jehadis came to destroy it.

Shri Hamirsinhji Gohil’s grand statue is located on the front side of Shri Somnath Mandir, while his temple is located inside the campus of Shri Somnath mandir.

Produced by America based NRI Gujarati Bhagirath Joshi and co produced by Chintan Pathak and Maulik Pathak, the film story is written by Dipak Vyas. The film is going to release on 25 May in Gujarati. However same film will be released later in Hindi and English too in an attempt to bring this Gujarati bravery icon to wider audience.

It is for the first time that late Zaverchand Meghani’s family has permitted any film producer to use famous song ‘Kasumbi no rang’ in his film. In the film Veer Hamirji, the song is presented in voice of Kirtidan Gadhvi.

Film’s premier will be held on 24 May in Rajkot.

Producer Bhagirath Joshi
Co producer: Chintankumar Pathak, Maulikkumar Pathak
Director Nilesh Indu Maruti Mohite
Chief Assistant Director: Nilesh Panchal
Assistant Director: Priyank Prajapati, Anil Parmar
Story: Dipak Vyas
Screen play: Maulik Pathak, Nilesh Mohite
Dialogues: Deven Shah
Camera: Manojkumar Zala, Jetsi Muliyasia
Music: Samir Raval
Background music: Akash Shah
Songs: Takhdan Algari, Keshav Rathod bapu
Creative head, supervision: Sandip Pathak

Gandhinagar, 20 May 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today addressed NRI Gujaratis in 12 cities of America and Canada live through video conferencing. Presented above is the video of Shri Narendra Modi’s speech.

Surat, 20 May 2012

Once he was a Chief Minister of Gujarat, but nowadays he is novice. He has lately formed Prabuddh Nagarik Manch. He was last seen holding a press conference with p-seculars in Mumbai to defend Teesta Setalvad. He is Suresh Mehta. When Keshubhai was asked to resign from the post of Chief Minister, Suresh Mehta was of opinion that as the next senior person and former Chief Minister, he should be installed as the Chief Minister and not Narendra Modi.

However he was unheard. When Modi became the Chief Minister for the first time, he had visited Suresh Mehta’s bungalow to seek his blessings, and Suresh Mehta had presented him an English book on politics. Suresh Mehta was one of the Gujarat BJP leaders unhappy with the entry of Narendra Modi in Gujarat as Chief Minister.

The other prominent leaders were Keshubhai and Kashiram Rana. As the election season is coming closure, these leaders in political hibernation are surfacing. They did same job in 2002 and 2007 also at some level, but with poll victory of Modi, they were again pushed to corner.

Suresh Mehta in this talk speaks on Modi, Keshubhai, Gujarat poll 2012 and other political affairs in guarded words. He observes that the minister who have not done their job enough will be the weakest candidates in forthcoming Gujarat assembly poll. The next class of weak candidate will be the MLAs who have not performed, according to Mehta.

How much Mehta understands Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s ideology is evident in the last phase of this interview where he says that Keshubhai’s movement of Patel unity is as per the RSS motto ‘sanghe shakti kaliyuge(Organization is Strength), while the fact is that division in the name of castes within Hindu community is completely against the ideology of RSS.

Mehta’s observation that the “people of Gujarat need mental food”, is perhaps thanks to the consistent stand of people of Gujarat to back Modi, by re-electing the BJP repeatedly.

Mehta’s this interview was taken on the sideline of MahaGujarat Janata Party leader Fakirbhai Chauhan’s birthday function in Surat.