Articles tagged under: Thakor community

Congress MLAs Alpesh Thakor, Dhavalsinh Zala give resignations to assembly Speaker

July 05, 2019
Congress MLAs Alpesh Thakor, Dhavalsinh Zala give resignations to assembly Speaker

Gandhinagar: Gujarat MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala today resigned from assembly. Both have given resignation from membership of assembly to assembly Speaker. Both were elected for the first time as MLA in year 2017 general elections of Gujarat Assembly. Alpesh represents Radhanpur assembly seat in North Gujarat. His close aide and Congress MLA Dhavalsinh Zala represents Bayad assembly seat in North Gujarat. Alpesh and Dhavalsinh were issued whip by Congress party to vote for Congres...Read More

S.Jaishankar, Jugal Thakor BJP candidates for Rajya Sabha by-polls in Gujarat

June 24, 2019
S.Jaishankar, Jugal Thakor BJP candidates for Rajya Sabha by-polls in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: External Affairs minister S.Jaishankar is a candidate from Gujarat for Rajya Sabha by-election. Another candidate is a rich Thakor community man Jugal Thakor (Lokhandwala). Two Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat are vacant following resignations of Amit Shah and Smriti Irani. Both offered their resignations after their election to Lok Sabha in recently concluded general election. S. Jaishankar a former foreign secretary of India joined ruling BJP formally today, a month after taki...Read More

Day after leaving Congress, Alpesh Thakor campaigns for independent candidate associated with his outfit on Banaskantha LS seat

April 11, 2019
Day after leaving Congress, Alpesh Thakor campaigns for independent candidate associated with his outfit on Banaskantha LS seat

Palanpur: A day after his resignation from Congress, Radhanpur MLA Alpesh Thakor today campaigned for independent candidate on Banaskantha Lok sabha seat in North Gujarat, Swarupji Thakor, who is also the vice president of Thakor Sena which is led by Alpesh. Thakor said that he would also hold a big meeting after April 15 in the constituency. He said that he wanted to ensure the victory of Swarupji who represented the poor people. He claimed that the big c...Read More

Thakor Sena withdraws support to Congress, asks Alpesh Thakor to leave all Congress posts within 24 hours

April 10, 2019
Thakor Sena withdraws support to Congress, asks Alpesh Thakor to leave all Congress posts within 24 hours

Gandhinagar: Core committee meeting of Alpesh Thakor-led Kshatriya Thakor Sena on Tuesday evening took decision to withdraw support to Congress party which was extended in year 2017. The core committee meeting also took a decision that Alpesh Thakor should stick to Thakor Sena and give resignation from all posts of Congress party within next 24 hours. Dhavalsinh Zala, a Congress MLA from Bayad in North Gujarat and top aide of Alpesh late in the evening on Tuesday shared this detail with medi...Read More

Patan: Five senior Congress leaders in Gujarat including 3 ex-MLA’s resign from the party

March 28, 2019
Patan: Five senior Congress leaders in Gujarat including 3 ex-MLA’s resign from the party

Patan: Five senior leaders of Congress including three ex MLAs have resigned from the party. Ex MLAs Jodhaji Thakor (Patan), Chamanji Thakor (erstwhile Vagdod assembly segment), Dharsinh Thakor (Kankrej) and former president of Patan Zila Panchayat Abhesinh Thakor and former Gujarat Congress secretary Popatji Thakor have in their resignation letter sent to state party president Amit Chavda said that they were taking the decision due to ignore of them in candidate selection process. T...Read More

Wanted to become minister, but confusion is over, continuing in Congress: Alpesh Thakor

March 09, 2019
Wanted to become minister, but confusion is over, continuing in Congress: Alpesh Thakor

Ahmedabad: Admitting that he was willing to become 'minister', Congress national secretary and party MLA Apesh Thakor today said that he has taken a decision to not to leave Congress and struggle for his supporters. Addressing a press conference here Alpesh said that he was annoyed at the party and its leadership as he and his supporters were not getting due respect but now with the assurance of the party in this regard his annoyance was over. He also said that he did not ...Read More

Alpesh Thakor meets Thakor Sena office bearers, takes their opinion on next political move

March 07, 2019
Alpesh Thakor meets Thakor Sena office bearers, takes their opinion on next political move

Ahmedabad: Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor has started the opinion taking exercise of all the district units of his outfit Thakor Sena here about his next course of action. Alpesh had neither openly denied nor accepted the speculations about his leaving the party. He had said that he would clarify tomorrow. One of his supporters said that all of them were of the opinion that whatever decision Alpesh takes they would follow, be it even joining the BJP. Even as Congress is tryi...Read More

Video of Alpesh Thakor and Shankar Chaudhary meeting each other goes viral, triggers speculations

January 24, 2019

Palanpur: Congress MLA and Thakor Sena leader Alpesh Thakor today rejected speculations regarding him joining the BJP ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Alpesh who is on yatra covering Thakor community populated areas of North Gujarat yesterday greeted and met with BJP leader and former minister Shankarbhai Chaudhary at Bhabhar town, video of which has gone viral on social media. A brief informal meeting of two leaders in public triggered further speculations regarding Alpesh's switch ov...Read More

Another Congress leader in Gujarat arrested for spreading hate against non-Gujaratis on social media

October 13, 2018
Another Congress leader in Gujarat arrested for spreading hate against non-Gujaratis on social media

Ahmedabad/Patan: Another Congress leader in Gujarat has been nabbed for posting instigating message on social media against non-Gujaratis. Ahmedabad Crime Branch Cyber cell in-charge ACP J S Gedam today said that spokesperson of Patan district Congress Sumit Thakor has been arrested from Patan in connection with putting instigating messages on Facebook during the violence against non-Gujratis. He said that Sumit has not posted any video but only written instigating comments aga...Read More

Congress MLA’s video suggesting people to burn alive an accused goes viral

October 11, 2018
Congress MLA’s video suggesting people to burn alive an accused goes viral

Palanpur/Gandhinagar/Himmatnagar: Even as the situation in Gujarat after incidents of attacks on migrant workers is normalizing quickly, two controversial videos involving MLAs have come to fore today. In one of the videos controversial woman MLA from Congress from Vav seat Geniben Thakor, who is deemed close to Alpesh Thakor, can be heard giving instigating advise to the woman-folk that had come to meet her at her residence after the Dhundhar rape incident that led to the attacks on non-Guja...Read More