Vijapur: A school child lost his life due to an electric shock while arranging the systems for a school function. Police have nabbed five school staff members, including the principal, in this case. Saint Joseph School is located in Khanusa village of Vijapur taluka in the Mahesana district of North Gujarat. On Wednesday, students were preparing for the celebration of the Navratri Mahotsav in the school campus. Some students touched a steel ladder that was in contact with an overhead power li...Read More

Gandhinagar: The counting of votes through all 18 rounds is over for the Vijapur assembly by-election. BJP candidate Dr. C.J. Chavda has won the seat with 55,690 votes against his nearest rival candidate, Dineshbhai Patel. Chavda got 99,083 votes, while Dinesh Patel got 43,393 votes. The by-poll was necessited due to the resignation of Chavda as Congress MLA. Chavda then contested the by-polls as BJP candidate. DeshGujaratRead More

Gandhinagar: A local BJP ticket aspirant Govind Patel has been convinced by party to support the party candidate CJ Chavda in Vijapur assembly seat by-poll. Vijapur seat is vacant due to resignation of ex-MLA CJ Chavda from the State assembly. Chavda was a senior Congress leader who resigned from the party as well and joined BJP. The Central Election Committee of BJP has declared Chavda's name as candidate for Vijapur assembly by-poll. However a local BJP leader Govind Patel had demanded...Read More

Mehsana: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat today nabbed three individuals working in the Mamlatdar office of Vijapur taluka for their involvement in a bribe case amounting to ₹15,000. According to the case details, the son-in-law and the nephew of the complainant were lodged in the Vijapur sub-jail for a crime registered at the Mehsana Vasai police station. The complainant's son-in-law was suffering from a heart ailment, and his treatment was ongoing at Vadnagar Civil Hospital. To...Read More

Gandhinagar: C. J. Chavda, former Congress MLA from the Vijapur assembly seat, who resigned from the State legislative assembly on Friday, is set to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on February 4th. A senior leader and consistent winner, Chavda will be joining the saffron ranks of the ruling BJP in the presence of Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil. Former Taluka presidents and members of the Taluka Panchayat are also likely to join the BJP along with Chavda. Former Taluka President Chand...Read More

Gandhinagar: In a major jolt to the main opposition Congress party, a senior leader and consistent winner CJ Chavda has resigned from the State legislative assembly. Chavda, a former Deputy Collector won assembly elections in the State in 2002, 2017 and 2022. He had lost assembly poll in 2007 and Lok Sabha election against Amit Shah in Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in 2019. Popular as CJ Chavda, his full name is Chaturji Jawanji Chavda. With this, the Congress party's strength in the State assem...Read More

Vijapur: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suspended former legislator PI Patel along with Suresh Patel and Bharat Patel from the party. The party has suspended the leaders over their rebel candidature in the Vijapur Agriculture Produce Market Committee election against the official panel of BJP. It's worth noting that the State BJP chief CR Patil has announced a policy that the party will give a mandate for candidature in cooperative elections, be it the agriculture market yards, ...Read More