Gandhinagar: Gujarat Congress president Amit Chavda and Leader of Opposition in the State assembly Paresh Dhanani both have offered their resignations following party's defeat on all 8 assembly seats that went for by-poll recently. State party incharge Rajeev Satav has confirmed this development. Satav also said that by the end of the month of December, decision on these resignations and other changes in party's state organisation will be announced from Delhi. Calendar year 2020 has been e...Read More

Gandhinagar: 8 newly elected members of legislative assembly (MLAs) today took oath at the State assembly complex here. They are Pradyumansinh Jadeja (Abdasa) , Brijesh Merja (Morbi) , Kiritsinh Rana (Limbdi) , Atmaram Parmar (Gadhda) , JV Kakadia (Dhari) , Akshay Patel (Karjan) , Vijay Patel (Dang) and Jitu Chaudhary (Kaprada). While seven MLAs took oath at one go, Akshay Patel was late and therefore took oath inside the chamber of State assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi. All 8 MLA...Read More

Dang: Historic victory of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in tribal populated Dang assembly seat with margin of around 60,000 votes is not a miracle but the result of sustained, sincere and skillful efforts of minister Ganpat Vasava, Purnesh Modi, Ashok Dhorajia among others under the guidance of State party chief CR Patil. Vasava was incharge of both Dang and Kaprada seats in South Gujarat. Both seats are reserved for tribal candidates. Both seats were previously with Congress but lost ...Read More

Valsad: With Jitubhai Chaudhary's victory in the State assembly by-election in Kaprada, Congress has been washed out from Valsad district of South Gujarat, as all five assembly seats in the districts are now with BJP. Kaprada, a tribal populated seat is reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates. Jitu Chaudhary had won this seat as Congress candidate in year 2017 State assembly general elections by thin margin of just 170 votes. Just ahead of Rajya Sabha election this year, Chaudhary resigned from ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi thanked the people of Gujarat for their support as ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made a clean sweep in the 8-seat by-polls of Gujarat Assembly. The Prime Minister in his tweet said: Bond between the people of Gujarat and BJP is unreakbable! This affection is again seen in the 8 by-polls where BJP made a clean sweep. I thank the people of Gujarat for the support. The Prime Minister also appreciated Vijay Rupani government and said: I ap...Read More

Gandhinagar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has in 8-seat by-polls received as high as 55.1 per cent votes against 34.4 per cent vote share of Congress. A 20.8 percent gap between votes won by both parties is very huge by all means. Others have received 8.4 percent votes. Read More

Gandhinagar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won all 8 seats that went for by-election on November 3. Party candidate Pradhyumansinh Jadeja has won Abdasa assembly by-poll in Kutch district by a margin of 36,778 votes against nearest rival Congress candidate Dr. Shantilal Senghani. Abdasa seat has a history of not electing same MLA again. Jadeja has broken this trend. A BJP leader of taluka level in the past, Jadeja contested year 2017 general elections of Gujarat Assembly as Congres...Read More

Japan K Pathak Gandhinagar: Are minority votes slipping away from main opposition Congress party in Gujarat? The party lost all eight seats in Gujarat by-polls today and there are some examples that clearly indicate that minority votes slipped from Congress party's hold. Congress candidate lost Morbi by margin of 4,688 votes. Combined votes of three Muslim candidates who were in fray in Morbi is more than this margin. Bhatti Hushenbhai of All India Majlis-E-Inquilab-E-Millat has got 8...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today said that BJP win in Gujarat by-polls is a trailer of upcoming local body elections. Different areas of Gujarat cast votes, different communities participated in this 8-seat by-polls. There were Patidar, Koli, Muslim, tribal influenced areas. We have not just won but won with huge victory. For example, margin in tribal populated Dang seat is unprecedented and never before. In Abdasa, Congress is not even on second number. An independent ...Read More

Gandhinagar, 9 November 2020: Counting for by-elections on 8 assembly seats in Gujarat is scheduled on November 10. The seats are Abdasa, Morbi, Limbdi, Gadhada (SC), Dhari, Karjan, Dang (ST) and Kaprada (ST). Polling on these seats took place on November 3. By-elections on these seats have been necessitated due to resignations of then sitting Congress MLAs. Five of outgoing MLAs who were previously elected on Congress ticket have been fielded by BJP as its candidates. On all 8 seat, the mai...Read More