Gandhinagar: Two vacant assembly seats in Gujarat - Radhanpur and Bayad will go for by-polls on 21st October. Election Commission of India (ECI) today announced the schedule of two-seat by-poll. ECI had yesterday declared the schedule of by-polls for another four vacant assembly seats in Gujarat. By-poll is necessitated on Radhanpur and Bayad seats due to resignations of then Congress MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala. Both later joined BJP. They are likely to contest on their respective as...Read More

Gandhinagar: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat has appointed 14 party men as incharge for upcoming 7-seat assembly by-polls, schedule of which is not announced yet. For each of 7 assembly seat by-polls, one incharge has been appointed from party organization while other incharge shall be from government. Shabdarsharan Brahmbhatt and Ganpat Vasava will look after Morva Hadaf assembly seat by-poll. Bharatsinh Parmar and Jayrathsinh Parmar are appointed to supervise Lunawada assem...Read More

Ahmedabad: Union Law and Justice Minister and Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad will be addressing a press conference here on Wednesday ie., September 11, to highlight the achievements of Modi 2.0 government during its first 100 days and present a report card about it. A senior party leader today said that Prasad who also has the charge of Communications and Electronics and Information Technology portfolios would be addressing the PC in Ahmedabad. This is part of the ...Read More

Ahmedabad: 370 doctors from Gujarat joined the ruling BJP on Sunday expressing their support to the Centre's move to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370. The doctors were greeted by Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan in a video message. The doctors, including All India Radiologist Association (AIRA) president Dr Hemant Patel, critical care expert Dr Kalpesh Shah, joined the BJP at a function organised at the Gujarat University's conventio...Read More

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who had arrived here last night on a non-political visit to his home-town, was today admitted to a private hospital for a minor surgery. Shah was admitted to private Kusum Dhirajlal (KD) hospital near Vashnodevi circle on S G Highway on the outskirts of the city. KD hospital is owned by former MCI head Dr. Ketan Desai. Some routine tests were conducted and the minister cum party president underwent a minor surgery of Lipoma (a kind of...Read More

Gandhinagar: A function to pay tribute to late finance minister Arun Jaitley will be held at Karnavati Club on 5th September during 6.00 - 7.00 pm. The function will be attended by leading intellectuals, businessmen, mahajans (traders), various organizations, legal experts among others. Shri Jaitley had adopted Gujarat's Chandod and Karnali villages as Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat. He had contributed immensly to Karnali, Baglipura, Pipaliya, Valiya and Chandod to make Aadarsh Saansad Gram. Sh...Read More

Ahmedabad: Congress leader and Taluka president of Dhari in Amreli, the home district of LoP Paresh Dhanani, Paresh Patani today joined BJP with more than 50 of his supporters. Patani who is deemed close to the Dhari Congress MLA J V Kakadiya joined the saffron brigade during an event in the Dhari Marketing yard. Union Minister Parshottam Rupala and Gujarat minister Dharmendrasinh Jadeja were also present on the occasion. Patani said that he was joining BJP ...Read More