Gandhinagar: A total of 265 candidates are in the fray for the Lok Sabha general elections on 25 out of 26 parliamentary constituencies in Gujarat. According to details announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI), a total of 433 candidates had filled the nomination forms for the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat during the candidacy stage of the election. During the form verification process last Saturday, the ECI recognized 328 out of 433 candidates to contest the elections. Later, by 3 ...Read More

Surat: Disqualified Congress candidate on Surat Lok Sabha seat, Nilesh Kumbhani left for vacation in Goa with his family after his nomination forms were rejected by the Election Officer. Speculations are rife that he may join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) at appropriate time. With rejection of several nomination forms including those of Kumbhani and Congress party's dummy candidate, and withdrawal of nominations by all other candidates, the only candidate left in the field, BJP's Mu...Read More

Gandhinagar: Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) will not be contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Gujarat, the party announced today. Earlier, the party had announced that it would field candidates in Bharuch and Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seats. AIMIM state president Sabir Kabliwala said, "We are not contesting Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat because we were unable to win Vidhansabha seats. We need to strengthen the party first. Corporation elections are approachin...Read More

Surat: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Surat Lok Sabha seat, Mukesh Dalal, was declared victorious unopposed today. The Surat District Collector awarded a certificate of election to Mukesh after all other candidates withdrew from the fray.   After the invalidation and rejection of the nomination forms of the Congress candidate and dummy candidate over fake signatures of proposers yesterday, other independent and smaller party candidates also withdrew their no...Read More

Rajkot: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MoS Home Harsh Sanghavi along with General Secretary(Organization) Ratnakar Pandey are holding meetings with leading Kshatriya community faces in various Lok Sabha seat areas in attempt to avert the damage the community voters may cause to the party. Sanghavi held one such meeting in a hotel in Rajkot. The meeting was also attended by BJP leaders including those from the Kshatriya community. The other such meeting was held in Bhavnagar. T...Read More

Sabarkantha: The Vadali police on Sunday detained 14 individuals after a clash erupted between a BJP worker and Kshatriyas during the inauguration of election office of BJP's Sabarkantha Lok Sabha candidate Shobhna Baraiya. Senior BJP leader and Idar MLA Ramanlal Vora was also seen present at the event when the Kshatriyas were protesting against Union Minister and BJP leader Parshottam Rupala due to his remarks last month. The demonstrators clashed with police also, dismantling barricades and...Read More

Gandhinagar: There are 12 Muslim candidates against BJP candidate Amit Shah in Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat. The others against Amit Shah are Hindu candidates including Congress candidate Sonalben Patel. Tanveeruddin Shaikh, Mehbub Rangrej, Mansuri Suhana, Deenmahammad Saiyad, Umadiya Alibhai, Bagvan Bahadurshah, Malek Makbul Shakib, Pathan Imtiyazkhan, Pathan Shahnawazkhan, Navsadalam Ibrahim Malek are independent candidates against Amit Shah. Mohammadanish Desai from Bahujan Samaj Party an...Read More

Surat: The nomination forms of Congress candidate Nilesh Kumbhai were rejected by the Election Officer after all three proposers said the signatures in forms were not theirs. Congress candidate Nilesh Kumbhai had filed three nomination forms with three different proposers. However all three met with the Election Officer and also submitted their notarized affidavits conveying that the signatures in nomination forms in their names were not theirs. One of the proposers is Kumbhani's busines...Read More

Surat: The nomination form of Congress party's Surat Lok Sabha seat candidate, Nilesh Kumbhani has been prima facie found to attract invalidation by the Election Officer, as proposers Ramesh Palara, Jagdish Savaliya and Dhruvin Dhameliya, claimed they had not signed the nomination forms of Kumbhani. All thre proposers made this representation physically before the Election Officer and also presented affidavits. Interestingly, Congress has also fielded Suresh Padsala as its dummy candidate on ...Read More