Gandhinagar Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation(GMC) is distributing daily 120 litre butter milk for free among its employees in field and citizens to counter the impact of heat. The initiative kicked off on 18 April and it is going since then. Main benificieries of this initiative are sweepers, drivers, health workers and other staff members of GMC, but they are not the only beneficiaries. Local citizens are served with butter milk outside the GMC office gate, distribution cente...Read More

By Japan K Pathak Gandhinagar As his move has favored BJP, the Congress party and section of media is jointly projecting Gandhinagar Mayor Pravin Patel as villain. As soon as he switched over to BJP after elected on Congress symbol, a group of Congress workers first attacked Pravin Patel's house in Gandhinagar and broke glasses of windows. Later Pravin Patel was on two occasions attacked and thrashed by group of Congress members - mostly Councillors. This(presented below) ...Read More

Gandhinagar About two dozen Congress workers including many Congress Councillors in Gandhinagar today rushed to newly elected Mayor Pravin Patel Quality's house and shouted slogans. The Congress workers were detained by police for holding protest without having permission. Pravin Patel, originally from BJP had contested the election as Congress candidate. After winning the election on Congress ticket by thin margin, Patel rejoined BJP as Mayoral candidate. He was elected as Mayor with sup...Read More

Gandhinagar With the ruling BJP's dramatic regain of power in Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) today owing to the sudden switch-over of a Congress corporator, state president of the ruling party,Vijay Rupani outright rejected the opposition's allegations of 'horse-trading'. Talking to media persons Mr. Rupani said, ' The allegations are baseless. Not even a single penny exchanged hands. There has been no deal, Pravinbhai (a former BJP man) is an old acquaintance to m...Read More

Gandhinagar Congress Councillor Pravin Patel who is locally known as 'Quality' rejoined today original political party BJP as party's Mayoral candidate. Pravin Patel has been elected as new Mayor of Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation(GMC) where both BJP and Congress had won 16 seats each after recently concluded general elections for civic body. As both parties had won same number of seats, there was a situation of tie in Gandhinagar. The board meeting was called today for election of Ma...Read More

Gandhinagar Decision on the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation(GMC) is likely to be out on May 6. The first board meeting post election is scheduled on 6 May. This is comfortably enough time to create favorable political arithmetic for both parties - BJP and Congress that have equal number of Councillors elected after recently concluded polls. 32-seat GMC elected body has 16 members of BJP and Congress each. There are several possibilities o...Read More

Gandhinagar A Gujarati news channel VTV News has predicted Congress party's victory in Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation(GMC) polls, voting for which took place yesterday. The channel claimed it conducted exit poll covering 1260 voters. As per the results of survey, Congress would get 18 to 20 out of total 32 seats in GMC while BJP will get 14 to 16 seats. The channel further said Patidar community has domination in ward number 1, 3 and 8 while other wards such as 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 ...Read More

Gandhinagar Around 51 % voters exercised their franchise during the polling for Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) which started at 8am and ended peacefully at 5 pm today. District Collector cum Returning Officer Ravi Shanker said that as per primary figures the turn out was 51 percent. This may see some correction on complete compilation of data. Voting till 1 pm was approximately 30 % while by 4 pm, an hour before the closure it was 46.80%. There are ...Read More

Gandhinagar Voting on 32 seats of Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation today began at a slow pace and later gained momentum, as about 30 per cent voter turnout was registered till 1 PM, officials said. According to Gandhinagar Collector Ravi Shankar, the highest voter turnout has been registered so far in ward no.1, which comprises several rural pockets. "Voting has picked up gradually and touched 30 per cent mark till 1 PM. Ward no.1, having some rural areas in it, registered the highest ...Read More