Khambhat: At the end of the counting of votes through all 17 rounds, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) candidate Chirag Patel won the by-election of Khambhat assembly seat in Central Gujarat by getting 87,707 votes. Chirag Patel won the election by a margin of 38,202 votes against the nearest rival candidate Mahendrasinh Parmar who could get 49,505 votes. An independent candidate Mahipatsinh Chauhan got 15,631 votes. The by-poll was necessited due to resignation of Chirag Patel as Congress MLA....Read More

Borsad/Khambhat: Former Congress MLA of Khambhat, Chirag Patel today joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at a public meeting held here today in the presence of Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil. Chirag Patel had left the Congress party and resigned from the State Assembly last month. In another function in the same district at Borsad, over 3100 Congress workers joined the BJP as per the district BJP chief Rajeshbhai Patel. Chirag Patel will probably contest Khambhat seat as BJP candidate in ...Read More

Anand: Khambhat Congress MLA Chirag Patel has tendered his resignation from the post of Member of Legislative Assembly of Gujarat after meeting the State Assembly Speaker, Shankar Chaudhary, in the state capital today. Patel is the second MLA to resign from the state assembly within a week. Last week, Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Visavadar, Bhupat Bhayani, had resigned from the assembly. Chirag Patel (44), a first-time MLA, had won the state assembly election last year by a margin of 3,711 vot...Read More

Gandhinagar: More than 25 lakh square metres of beaches in Gujarat have eroded, including parts of the Shivrajpur beach which was awarded the Blue Flag accreditation in 2020, stated the central government in the Rajya Sabha. Dr Jitendra Singh, the Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, presented a set of data which indicates that erosion is affecting more than 537.5 kilometres of the sea coast in Gujarat, making it the region with the highest amount of affected area in ...Read More

Khambhat: Union home minister Amit Shah said while attacking congress that the entire Nehru Gandhi family took the utmost care to see that Sardar Patel's name is omitted. He said, "From Jawarhlal Nehru to Sonia Gandhi, the entire Nehru Gandhi family took the utmost care to see that Sardar Patel's name is omitted but Narendrabhai made such a statue that whether they (Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress) wish or don't wish entire world visits Sardar Saheb's statue." He added that no photos of con...Read More

Khambhat: The police have nabbed 4 more accused in the case of violence on Ram Navmi procession in Shakkarpur in Khambhat. The police have filed a crime against over 100 persons in the case. The four more accused nabbed by the police are: Zakirhussain Hussain Malek, Mufis Hussain Malek, Tasvarhussain Mohammad Malek, and Mosin Mustufa Dalwadi. All of them are residents of Shakkarpur. Their names were revealed during an inquiry of the accused earlier nabbed by the police. DeshGujaratRead More

Khambhat: The police have nabbed 2 more accused in the case of violence in Ram Navami procession in Shakkarpur in Khambhat. The police had rounded up 5 persons on Saturday and nabbed two out of them. The court has approved the remand of the two accused Jamshedkhan Joravarkhan Pathan and Majid alias Majlo Malek till 20th April. The police have earlier nabbed 9 accused including 3 maulvi in this case. The police demanded further remands of these 9 accused by producing them in the court aft...Read More

Ahmedabad: Congress party here has opposed the demolition of the illegal encroachments in Khambhat, the Central Gujarat town where Ram Navami procession of Hindus was attacked and a 62-year old Ram bhakt Kanaiyalal Rana was brutally killed. Congress MLAs Gyasuddin Shaikh and Imran Khedavala today issued a statement informing that they have appealed to state revenue minister Rajendra Trivedi on phone call to stop the bulldozing action in Sakkarpura area of Khambhat. The congress MLAs stat...Read More