Gandhinagar: Gujarat government's Social Justice and Empowerment department has in a resolution signed on Friday decided to replace the word Thakarda with Thakor in the Other Backward Class(OBC) list. The department has asked to make this replacement across all government records. Lok Sabha member from Patan Bharatsinh Dabhi who is Thakor by caste had made representation before the State government, demanding such replacement. In a decision signed by joint secretary GP Patel, it is said th...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala today resigned from assembly. Both have given resignation from membership of assembly to assembly Speaker. Both were elected for the first time as MLA in year 2017 general elections of Gujarat Assembly. Alpesh represents Radhanpur assembly seat in North Gujarat. His close aide and Congress MLA Dhavalsinh Zala represents Bayad assembly seat in North Gujarat. Alpesh and Dhavalsinh were issued whip by Congress party to vote for Congres...Read More

Gandhinagar: External Affairs minister S.Jaishankar is a candidate from Gujarat for Rajya Sabha by-election. Another candidate is a rich Thakor community man Jugal Thakor (Lokhandwala). Two Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat are vacant following resignations of Amit Shah and Smriti Irani. Both offered their resignations after their election to Lok Sabha in recently concluded general election. S. Jaishankar a former foreign secretary of India joined ruling BJP formally today, a month after taki...Read More

Palanpur: A day after his resignation from Congress, Radhanpur MLA Alpesh Thakor today campaigned for independent candidate on Banaskantha Lok sabha seat in North Gujarat, Swarupji Thakor, who is also the vice president of Thakor Sena which is led by Alpesh. Thakor said that he would also hold a big meeting after April 15 in the constituency. He said that he wanted to ensure the victory of Swarupji who represented the poor people. He claimed that the big c...Read More

Gandhinagar: Core committee meeting of Alpesh Thakor-led Kshatriya Thakor Sena on Tuesday evening took decision to withdraw support to Congress party which was extended in year 2017. The core committee meeting also took a decision that Alpesh Thakor should stick to Thakor Sena and give resignation from all posts of Congress party within next 24 hours. Dhavalsinh Zala, a Congress MLA from Bayad in North Gujarat and top aide of Alpesh late in the evening on Tuesday shared this detail with medi...Read More

Patan: Five senior leaders of Congress including three ex MLAs have resigned from the party. Ex MLAs Jodhaji Thakor (Patan), Chamanji Thakor (erstwhile Vagdod assembly segment), Dharsinh Thakor (Kankrej) and former president of Patan Zila Panchayat Abhesinh Thakor and former Gujarat Congress secretary Popatji Thakor have in their resignation letter sent to state party president Amit Chavda said that they were taking the decision due to ignore of them in candidate selection process. T...Read More

Ahmedabad: Admitting that he was willing to become 'minister', Congress national secretary and party MLA Apesh Thakor today said that he has taken a decision to not to leave Congress and struggle for his supporters. Addressing a press conference here Alpesh said that he was annoyed at the party and its leadership as he and his supporters were not getting due respect but now with the assurance of the party in this regard his annoyance was over. He also said that he did not ...Read More

Ahmedabad: Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor has started the opinion taking exercise of all the district units of his outfit Thakor Sena here about his next course of action. Alpesh had neither openly denied nor accepted the speculations about his leaving the party. He had said that he would clarify tomorrow. One of his supporters said that all of them were of the opinion that whatever decision Alpesh takes they would follow, be it even joining the BJP. Even as Congress is tryi...Read More

Ahmedabad/Patan: Another Congress leader in Gujarat has been nabbed for posting instigating message on social media against non-Gujaratis. Ahmedabad Crime Branch Cyber cell in-charge ACP J S Gedam today said that spokesperson of Patan district Congress Sumit Thakor has been arrested from Patan in connection with putting instigating messages on Facebook during the violence against non-Gujratis. He said that Sumit has not posted any video but only written instigating comments aga...Read More