Author Archives: Mehboob Shaikh

A sitting Congress MLA and former minister of state inGujarat Jasu Barad today passed away at a private hospital here following a prolong illness. In the present Assembly, Barad represented the Talala constituency in Gir-Somnath district. He was 60. “The ...

Expressing serious concern over the alleged bid by the BJP-led central government to dilute the Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006, Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary, Ahmed Patel, has demanded that FRA should not be diluted even a bit “either in ...

The Gujarat Congress today said it will introduce a bill during the budget session of Gujarat Assembly providing 20 per cent reservation for the economically backward class (EBC) among the upper castes. State Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki said the party ...

Accusing the ruling BJP and former Gujarat Chief MinisterNarendra Modi of destroying the democratic traditions of state Assembly, Congress today handed over a memorandum to the Lok Sabha Speaker in this regard here. The Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan is ...

Congress on Wednesday held a day-long “Swabhiman Dharna” for the rights of SCs, STs and OBCs in Gandhinagar. The dharna was held amid nationwide heated political debate over the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, a student of Hyderabad University. ...

Gujarat Congress on Wednesday organised ‘Swabhiman Dharna’ for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBC communities, alleging that the BJP government in the state was ignoring their wellbeing. “This arrogant BJP government is snatching away rights of schedule castes, scheduled ...

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who visited the University of Hyderabad in the wake of the alleged suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, on Tuesday said that it was the institution which had used “its power to crush” him. He also ...