Surat: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the Congress over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, accusing the opposition party of relying on infiltrators and bogus voters to win elections. Addressing a press conference in Surat, Rai said the Congress had suffered 56 defeats in Assembly elections since 2014 but had failed to introspect or reform itself. Instead, he alleged, the party was attempting to exploit illega...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) on Monday announced the appointment of Rup Singh Thakor as Mayor, Anjanaben Mehta as Deputy Mayor and Mahendra Patel as Standing Committee Chairman following a BJP meeting held at the civic body's headquarters. Thakor, 29, is a first-time corporator who contested the municipal elections for the first time. His family is also associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The announcement came after a delay in the commencement of t...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) is set to appoint its Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Standing Committee Chairman at its first general meeting today, 20 days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the civic body elections. According to media reports, Rup Singh Thakor, Kanaiyalal Desai, Mahesh Chaudhary and Dharmendra Nai are among the frontrunners for the Mayor's post, which is reserved for an OBC male candidate during the first term. Hemaben Bhatt and Anjana Mehta are re...Read More

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed three leaders from Gujarat to key social media positions as part of its preparations for the upcoming Assembly elections in five states. According to an appointment list issued by the party on October 29, Pankaj Shukla has been appointed social media in-charge for Uttar Pradesh, while Kavan Mehta has been named a social media team member for the state. Manan Dani has been appointed social media in-charge for Uttarakhand. The appointme...Read More

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Mahesh Pavagadhi, father of Vrajesh Pavagadhi, a 29-year-old Gujarat BJP Yuva Morcha (BJYM) worker who died on October 12 following a serious illness. Vrajesh was formerly associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and later served as secretary of the BJYM's Kutch district unit. He was participating in the Seva Sankalp Yatra from Vadnagar to Varanasi when he developed a fever after travelling for a few days. His condition ...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed Dr. Naresh Desai as president of the Gujarat state Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). Desai, who hails from Patan in North Gujarat, was serving as the state general secretary of the BJYM-Gujarat. He will succeed Dr. Hemang Joshi, who was recently appointed national president of the BJP's youth wing by the party's central leadership. Desai has also previously held the position of state secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi P...Read More

Vadnagar: The concluding ceremony of the Varanasi-to-Vadnagar Seva Yatra will be held at 4 pm at Vadnagar. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will attend the event as special guests. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, BJP Gujarat in-charge Tarun Chugh, BJP Gujarat president Jagdish Vishwakarma and Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi will also be present, along with other leaders. The ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday announced 32 candidates for the upcoming Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) general election. The candidates have been declared for eight wards, namely Wards 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, with four candidates named from each ward. The list was announced following a meeting of the party's election committee chaired by Gujarat BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma. The BJP's announcement covers 32 of the 44 seats acr...Read More

Ahmedabad: A day after announcing in-charges and co-in-charges for various states and Union Territories (UTs), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday appointed state general secretaries (Organisation), state joint general secretaries (Organisation) and other organisational functionaries across states and UTs with immediate effect. The party has retained Ratnakar as the State General Secretary (Organisation) for Gujarat while also giving him the responsibility of Dadra and Nagar Haveli a...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced new state in-charges and co-in-charges for 36 states and Union Territories. For Gujarat, the party has retained Tarun Chugh as the state in-charge, while Delhi MLA Ajay Mahawar and Chhattisgarh MLA Gomti Sai have been appointed as co-in-charges for the state. Mahawar, a BJP MLA from the Ghonda Assembly constituency in Delhi, was first elected in 2020 and retained the seat in the 2025 Assembly elections. He was born on Jan...Read More