Silvassa: 15 of 17 members of Dadra Nagar Haveli district panchayat representing Janata Dal United (JDU) have left the party and switched over to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opposing JDU leader Nitish Kumar's decision to split BJP - JDU alliance in Bihar. BJP had only 3 members in DNH district panchayat. However after today's development, the BJP is the ruling party in  DNH district panchayat. So far, the district panchayat was ruled by an alliance of JDU and late Lok Sabha MP Mohan Delkar'...Read More

Bharuch: A different kind of challenge has arisen in front of Chhotu Vasava, the president of newly formed Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP) and former state president and sole MLA of erstwhile JDU in Gujarat. Vasava today filed his nomination on his seat Jhagadia in Bhruch district as BTP candidate but to his utter surprise a candidate of his own name ie Chhotu Vasava also filed papers today as JDU (Nitish faction which has been declared as the original JDU after dispute with Shar...Read More

Bodeli: Nitish Kumar faction of Janta Dal(United) will contest Gujarat assembly polls on 38 seats across 10 districts on its own without alliance. JDU Nitish Kumar faction youth wing president Shahid Mansoori in a press conference at Bodeli in Central Gujarat made this announcement. He said Sharad Yadav faction of JDU has not power to use JDU symbol or issue mandate. It's worth noting that Sharad Yadav faction has announced alliance with Congress to contest Gujarat polls under the leadership of ...Read More

Ahmedabad/Bharuch: The sole JD-U MLA from Gujarat Chhotu Vasava, whose crucial vote paved the way, for victory of congress candidate and Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel in August 8 Rajyasabha election in the state, today claimed that he had received a phone call from NCP general secretary and former union minister Praful Patel on the poll-eve urging him to vote for BJP candidate Balwantsinh Rajput. The statement of Vasava came at a time when Patel a little while...Read More

Ahmedabad: National general secretary of Janata Dal United(JDU) KC Tyagi and Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) leader Praful Patel today addressed a joint press conference in Ahmedabad to announce pre-poll announce of NCP - JDU in Gujarat for upcoming general elections of assembly. Speaking to media person, Praful Patel said people in Gujarat don't want BJP and don't like Congress. We are here to give an alternative of both. BJP won 26 of 26 Lok Sabha seats in Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat....Read More

Bharuch: Three sons of Janata Dal (United) MLA Chhotu Vasava were among eight persons sentenced by a court to three years in jail for attacking a local Congress leader. Additional sessions judge M H Patel at Ankleshwar suspended the ruling to enable the accused to file appeal in the Gujarat High Court, and granted bail to all of them, except Kishor Vasava, one of the sons of the MLA from Jhagadia in Bharuch district. The other two sons of the MLA sentenced are Mahesh and Dileep. Mahesh Vas...Read More