Author Archives: Mehboob Shaikh

Siddharth Patel said: “The Congress will protect the Patidar youth from the government atrocities.” In a quid pro quo move given the advantage it got from the mobilisation of anti-BJP Patidar votes in the recently concluded elections, the Gujarat Congress ...

Out of power for 20 years, the Congress on Wednesday made a stunning comeback in the rural areas ofGujarat by winning 21 of the 31 district panchayats, while the ruling BJP retained its hold over the urban pockets, clinching all ...

Overwhelmed by the high voter turnout till noon across Gujarat for the second phase of local body elections, senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel expressed confidence of winning. Mr Patel, who exercised his franchise at a booth in his ancestral village ...

The Congress on Wednesday moved the State Election Commission seeking immediate withdrawal of commercials on radio and television purportedly by the BJP, which it said is violation of the model code of conduct in force for forthcoming elections to local ...

Ahead of the rural and semi-urban local bodies elections,Gujarat Congress today released a vision document for the Panchayati Raj institutions. Some of the promises made in the document ‘Rejuvenation of Panchayat’- include hike in salary for Sarpanchs, more grant allocation, ...

The Gujarat Congress has alleged that the State Election Commission (SEC) deleted large number of names from the voter list at the instance of the Bharatiya Janata Party government, which is facing a challenge to retain its hold in the ...

Chief Minister Anadiben Patel after casting her vote, expressed confidence that BJP will win. Representatives of the Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar municipal corporations are seeking a fresh mandate to continue in office. Polling began in Gujarat today ...