Gandhinagar: Former BJP MLA Dr Kanu Kalsariya (below) who was last in the Congress party is all set to rejoin BJP. Kalsariya was visited by Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil and folk artist Mayabhai Ahir today. Kalsariya left the BJP in 2012 and lost assembly elections in 2012. After leaving the BJP, Kalsariya joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) before the 2017 assembly polls. Kalsariya was Gujarat AAP chief for some time.  Kalsariya met Rahul during his 2017 assembly campaign but did not formally joi...Read More

Gandhinagar: Election strategist Prashant Kishor who has worked for different political parties during various state elections in the past has now been assigned a brief of Gujarat elections next year by Congress party, it is learnt. Kishor has met at least two Gujarat Congress leaders, Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki and Kanubhai Kalsariya. Dr. Kalsariya who returned after meeting Prashant Kishor in Delhi today said Kishor inquired about the present political situation in Gujarat during th...Read More

Bhavnagar: Socialist activist and former Mahuva BJP MLA Kanubhai Kalsariya and six others have been given six month imprisonment and Rs. 800 fine by a local court in Talaja for illegal entry in Ultra Track cement plant (trespassing). All seven have been given bail. UltraTech Cement Limited is the flagship company of Aditya Birla Group. The group had acquired 1,714 hectare land in Talaja and Mahuva talukas of Bhavnagar district between 1999 and 2001 for mining limestone and supplying it to its c...Read More

Bhavnagar: Former BJP MLA and AAP leader who also floated political outfit called Sadbhavna Manch and contested election as independent, Dr. Kanubhai Kalsariya today expressed his wish to contest from Amreli Lok Sabha seat as Congress candidate in upcoming general elections of Lok Sabha in 2019. Socialist-left leaning Kalsariya joined Congress party yesterday after meeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Delhi. He will formally join Congress party in presence of his supporters during R...Read More

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader in Gujarat and former BJP MLA Kanubhai Kalsariya will formally join Congress during the upcoming Gujarat visit of party president Rahul Gandhi. After meeting Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi at his residence today Kalsariya said over phone that he had a nice meeting with the Congress leader. 'I have agreed to join Congress in principal but the formal joining would take place during the July 16-17 Gujar...Read More

Nadiad: Senior AAP leader and 3 time former MLA of Gujarat Kanu Kalsariya today had a meeting with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi here. Kalsariya who was BJP MLA from 1997 to 2012 and joined AAP in 2014 after his defeat in 2012 assembly polls as an independent candidate (of Sadbhavana Manch), is again willing to contest election from Mahuwa seat in Bhavnagar disrict as an Independent and wants Congress support. His meeting with Rahul today is understood to be a part of thi...Read More