Articles tagged under: Manavadar

Jawahar Chavda steps up rebellion; Releases video, may rejoin Congress

June 22, 2024

Junagadh: Former MLA of Manavadar and ex-minister Jawahar Chavda has signaled his rebellion against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which he joined in 2019. Chavda specifically targeted Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and tore the BJP symbol in a video statement posted on his social media handles. Mandaviya represents Porbandar Lok Sabha seat. Manavdar is part of this Lok Sabha seat area. Chavda has also removed the BJP symbol from his social media accounts and deleted all related post...Read More

BJP candidate Arvind Ladani wins Manavadar assembly bypoll in Gujarat

June 04, 2024
BJP candidate Arvind Ladani wins Manavadar assembly bypoll in Gujarat

Manavdar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) candidate Arvind Ladani has won the by-election of Manavdar assembly seat by a margin of 30,797 votes. The counting through 20 rounds completed by 2 pm today and Ladani emerged as victorious against his nearest rival candidate, Congress party's Haribhai Kansagara who could get 50,101 votes. The by-poll on this seat was necessited due to resignation of Ladani as Congress MLA. Ladani then joined BJP and contested by-poll as BJP candidate.  DeshGujaratRead More

Manavadar Congress MLA Arvind Ladani resigns; set to join BJP

March 06, 2024
Manavadar Congress MLA Arvind Ladani resigns; set to join BJP

Gandhinagar: Just two days after the resignation of former Gujarat Congress President and Porbandar MLA Arjun Modhwadia,  another Congress MLA resigned today. Arvind Ladani, MLA from Manavadar seat today handed over his resignation to the State Assembly Speaker Shankarbhai Chaudhary at the latter's residence here. Ladani also resigned from primary membership of the Congress party. He is all set to join Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The latest resignation of a Congress leader happened a day befo...Read More

Congress MLA expresses regrets for derogatory remark against Modi

March 22, 2013

Gandhinagar, 22 March 2013 Gujarat Assembly today witnessed uproars after Congress MLA from Manavadar Jawahar Chavda made derogatory remarks against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Agitated BJP MLAs later forced Chavda to tender an apology for it. During the question hour today morning, while raising a question on the population of Asiatic Lions in Gir, Chavda made some comments on the role played by Modi in increasing the number of wild cats at the sanctuary. Enrag...Read More

Narendra Modi launches 8th Krushi Mahotsav at Manavadar

May 06, 2012

Rajkot, 6 May 2012 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today launched the 8th edition of Krushi Mahotsav in Gujarat at Manavadar town of Junagadh district. One month long Krushi Mahotsav will have 224 Kisan raths moving in all taluka panchayat seat areas of the state with a team of 90000 agriculture scientists. The Chief Minister dedicated veterinary college complex, indoor sports complex and milk cold storage at Junagadh agriculture university campus. The Chief Minister ...Read More

Narendra Modi visiting Manavadar assembly seat for the first time as CM today

May 05, 2012

Ahmedabad, 6 May, 2012 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will visit Saurashtra's Manavadar today to kick off annual Krushi Mahotsav. Manvadar is one assembly constituency area in Gujarat which never witnessed the visit of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Locals believe that Modi never visited the area apprehending anger of farmers in connection with the dark zone issue. Dark zones are “over exploited” and “critical blocks” in the state where level of ground water h...Read More