All important news in brief from across Gujarat on Saturday, 6 September

Ahmedabad, 6 September, 2014

-As he has postponed his scheduled visit to Pakistan that was to take place ahead of his visit to India, it is likely that Chinese President Xi Jinping may come to Gujarat. In that case Prime Minister Narendra Modi may come to Gujarat as well. It is believed that Prime Minister Modi will come to Gujarat anytime during 15-16-17 September. Two Chinese delegations have already visited Gujarat in last one week in this connection. Gujarat is one of the locations in India having major presence of Chinese industry. There’s no official word about such programme as of now. Couple of days we reported in ‘news in brief’ section that Chinese embassy team met Gujarat’s Chief Secretary in Gandhinagar possibly in connection with proposed visit of Chinese President to Gujarat. It is believed that Sister city agreement between Guangdong and Ahmedabad will be signed during Chinese President’s visit to Gujarat. Narendra Modi’s 64 birthday is on 17 September.

-After Anandiben Patel’s daughter, now Anandiben’s friend and junior minister Vasuben Trivedi’s daughter has also started NGO focusing on popularising handicraft. Vasuben’s daughter and daughter in law have together organized an exhibition in Jamnagar for three days to sell handicraft items mainly from Kutch and Jamnagar/Dwarka districts. While Anandiben’s daughter Anar Patel runs Gramshri NGO doing almost same job, Trivedis have named their NGO as Rang gram.

-Ahmedabad’s Sola police today raided a mall in Thaltej area near SG Highway and seized duplicate t-shirts of Eagle company worth Rs. 30 lakh. Company officials were with police during the operation.

-Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today started campaign for 10-seat Gujarat by-poll. She addressed a public rally for BJP candidate Mulubhai Bera in Khambhalia. Local MP Poonamben Madam was present during the meeting. Anandiben in her speech asked voters of Khambhalia to gift BJP’s victory on 10 seats in Gujarat on 17 September which is Shri Modi’s birthday. It should be mentioned that the results of by-polls are to be declared on 16th of September, just one day before Modi’s 64th birthday. Out of total 10 seats that are scheduled to witness polling on 13 September, 2 are vacated by Narendra Modi himself. One is Maninagar which is assembly seat and the other is Vadodara Lok Sabha seat.

-Directorate of Revenue Intelligence(DRI) teams today raided Tal exporters at about 45 locations across Gujarat, Rajasthan and Mumbai. Dhaval Agro Export, Talakshi, Sagar International, Sonpal Export are among export companies raided. The raids were conducted to check violation of DGFT scheme. It is believed that exporters were importing duty free Tal from abroad, and instead of exporting the stock, they were selling it at cheaper price in India. This practice was causing damage to interests of domestic farmers.

-Two jawans of Border Security Force(BSF) drowned in creek area close to Lakhpat near India-Pakistan border during training. Dead body of one jawan has been found.

-Gujarat State’s Agriculture director today said that the central government has already allotted 1,85,000 urea stock to Gujarat. He today held a meeting with fertilizer distributors from across Gujarat. He said, due to so much demand in brief period, farmers feel there’s shortage, but in four-five days availability of urea will normalize.

-Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be on Gujarat visit on 9/10 September. He will visit Coast Guard and BSF at various locations in Porbandar and Kutch.