Ahmedabad Diary | APMC polls bring BJP internal rift out in open
5 days, 14 hours ago

Ahmedabad Diary | APMC polls bring BJP internal rift out in open

New Indian Express  

BJP’s internal squabble intensified on Tuesday, with row erupting over the Unjha APMC elections. The panel backed by BJP MLA Kirit Patel was wiped out, while the candidates supported by former chairman Dinesh Patel emerged victorious. Rajkot leader caught in birth cert tampering BJP’s ongoing organisation festival in Rajkot’s Ward No. However, an alert party insider has blown the whistle, leading Rajkot BJP election in-charge Mayaben Kodnani to demand proof from Makhela.

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Lok Sabha polls: Apna Dal (K) forms PDM Nyay Morcha with Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, exits INDIA bloc
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Lok Sabha polls: Apna Dal (K) forms PDM Nyay Morcha with Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, exits INDIA bloc

Live Mint  

Lok Sabha Polls 2024: On Sunday, Apna Dal announced that they are exiting the INDIA bloc. Apna Dal leader Pallavi Patel announced a new joint front with Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM, which will contest the Lok Sabha polls. Pallavi Patel told PTI that it was SP chief Akhilesh Yadav who said that the alliance with Apna Dal was for the 2022 …

Impact of mafia -politician Mukhtar Ansari who dominated Mau-Ghazipur likely to continue after death
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Impact of mafia -politician Mukhtar Ansari who dominated Mau-Ghazipur likely to continue after death

Hindustan Times  

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari dominated the politics of Mau and Ghazipur districts in eastern Uttar Pradesh for decades, winning assembly elections with big margins. And it remains to be seen what impact his death will have on the politics of the region in the 2024 Lok Sabha election in which his brother Afzal Ansari is the Samajwadi Party candidate from Ghazipur. …

Samajwadi Party calls Apna Dal faction’s decision to contest three Lok Sabha seats in U.P. as ‘unilateral’
9 months ago

Samajwadi Party calls Apna Dal faction’s decision to contest three Lok Sabha seats in U.P. as ‘unilateral’

The Hindu  

March 20, 2024 08:31 pm | Updated 10:08 pm IST - Lucknow The Apna Dal, led by Krishna Patel, a Samajwadi Party ally, on March 20 announced its decision of contesting the Phulpur, Mirzapur, and Kaushambi Parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh under the umbrella of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance bloc. “A meeting of the Apna Dal central executive …

Gujarat: Former Congress MLA Chirag Patel joins BJP
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Gujarat: Former Congress MLA Chirag Patel joins BJP

India TV News  

Gujarat news: Former Congress MLA Chirag Patel joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat today in the presence of state BJP chief CR Paatil. Patel, a first-time MLA from Khambat seat in Anand district, resigned as a member of the state assembly on December 14, 2023 after citing disappointment with the working style of the Congress leadership and alleging …

Amit Shah Urges Consolidation of Backward Caste Voters in UP
1 year, 5 months ago

Amit Shah Urges Consolidation of Backward Caste Voters in UP

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi/Lucknow: Making a strong pitch for the consolidation of backward caste voters in the state ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that Uttar Pradesh got completely rid of the divisive forces of the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party after the BJP and the Apna Dal joined hands. Addressing …

In Lucknow, Shah targets SP, BSP with focus on OBC voters
1 year, 5 months ago

In Lucknow, Shah targets SP, BSP with focus on OBC voters

Hindustan Times  

Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Uttar Pradesh has got completely rid of the “divisive forces” of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party after the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Apna Dal joined hands, as he made a strong pitch for consolidation of backward caste voters in the state ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Union Home …

Convictions deal a fast death to Mukhtar’s 30-year political career
1 year, 6 months ago

Convictions deal a fast death to Mukhtar’s 30-year political career

Hindustan Times  

The decades-long political career of Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time MLA from Mau, is on a rapid decline after his recent convictions. In the 2022 state elections, Mukhtar passed the baton to his son Abbas, who won the Mau seat, while Suhaib Anasri, Sibgatullah’s son, won his home turf Mohammadabad on SP ticket. In 1995, Mukhtar joined the BSP, and unsuccessfully …

Independent Muslim candidate wins Hindu-dominated ward in Ayodhya
1 year, 7 months ago

Independent Muslim candidate wins Hindu-dominated ward in Ayodhya

India Today  

An independent Muslim candidate has secured a surprise victory in a ward in the Hindutva nerve centre of Ayodhya in the civic election results declared on Saturday. The Muslim vote share in this ward located on the backyards of the Ram Janmabhoomi is only 11 per cent of the total votes with 440 Muslim votes as against 3,844 Hindu votes. …

Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022: Big wins for BJP's Bhupendra Patel, Hardik Patel; no luck for AAP's Isudan Gadhvi
2 years ago

Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022: Big wins for BJP's Bhupendra Patel, Hardik Patel; no luck for AAP's Isudan Gadhvi

Firstpost  

The heavyweights in the fray in Gujarat included Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, BJP’s Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor, Congress’ Jignesh Mevani and AAP’s Isudan Gadhvi and Gopal Italia. Catch all the live updates from the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh counting Bhupendra Patel BJP’s incumbent chief minister Bhupendra Patel won big from Ghatlodia, the urban constituency in Ahmedabad city. In the …

Gujarat poll results: How the Young Turks have fared
2 years ago

Gujarat poll results: How the Young Turks have fared

India Today  

They made their way into national politics with the birth of successive rebellions. Rivaba Jadeja Won: The wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, Rivaba, who made her electoral debut on a BJP ticket in this assembly election, won by a 50,456 vote margin from the Jamnagar North seat. Isudan Gadhvi Lost: The AAP’s chief ministerial candidate lost to BJP’s Mulubhai Bera, …

Gujarat elections: PM Modi, Amit Shah congratulate CM Patel on record win
2 years ago

Gujarat elections: PM Modi, Amit Shah congratulate CM Patel on record win

Hindustan Times  

Prime minister Narendra Modi and union home minister Amit Shah telephoned Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel Wednesday to congratulate him on the Bhartiya Janata Party's record-breaking win in the 2022 Assembly election. CM Patel tweeted, "Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra bhai Modi and Hon'ble Union Home Minister Shri Amit bhai Shah have congratulated the Bhartiya Janata Party for its historic …

Gujarat results 2022: AAP CM face Isudan Gadhvi, party chief Italia both lose
2 years ago

Gujarat results 2022: AAP CM face Isudan Gadhvi, party chief Italia both lose

Hindustan Times  

The Aam Aadmi Party's Chief Ministerial face for Gujarat, Isudhan Gadhvi, on Thursday lost in his constituency of Khambalia and the party's state chief Gopal Italia, who was contesting from the Katargam in the Surat district, also lost. Even as Gadhvi had predicted win for his party in more than 100 of 182 seats in the state, early trends showed …

Delhi MCD elections: Shock defeat for Narendra Modi’s ruling party in local elections
2 years ago

Delhi MCD elections: Shock defeat for Narendra Modi’s ruling party in local elections

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s …

Bhupendra Patel, Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and more… The big names in Phase 2 of Gujarat polls
2 years ago

Bhupendra Patel, Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and more… The big names in Phase 2 of Gujarat polls

Firstpost  

Big names from the BJP, Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and others will be testing political waters today, as Gujarat votes in the second phase of elections. Other celebrity voters will be Uttar Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel, Aam Aadmi Party’s chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi, Gujarat Congress president Jagdish Thakor and cricketers Irfan Pathan, Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya. The second …

Gujarat election 'ek tarfa', BJP will break record this time: JP Nadda | Exclusive
2 years ago

Gujarat election 'ek tarfa', BJP will break record this time: JP Nadda | Exclusive

India Today  

Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda has exuded confidence that the BJP will break all-time record in the Gujarat elections, asserting that the assembly poll in the state is one-sided. In an exclusive interview with AajTak/India Today TV, the firebrand BJP leader said, "BJP will break all-time record in this Gujarat election. 'NO SCOPE OF AAP IN GUJ' When …

Gujarat Assembly elections | Kutiyana’s muscleman MLA fights to retain his stronghold
2 years ago

Gujarat Assembly elections | Kutiyana’s muscleman MLA fights to retain his stronghold

The Hindu  

‘Kaam boleche’ blares the loudspeaker atop an SUV as it leads the motorcade of strongman and two-time lawmaker, Kandhal Jadeja, into Teri village of Porbandar district. Son of late Santokben Jadeja, whose underworld activities inspired the Hindi movie Godmother, Kandhal bhai, as he is popularly known, managed to win twice as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate. For any public work, …

Gujarat Assembly polls | The long shadow of Nitin Patel over the contest in Mehsana
2 years ago

Gujarat Assembly polls | The long shadow of Nitin Patel over the contest in Mehsana

The Hindu  

In Dhandhusan village of Mehsana Assembly constituency a campaign meeting has the local BJP candidate, Mukesh Patel, in full flow about why people should vote for him, and one of the chief reasons cited is that he has been handpicked by outgoing MLA Nitin Patel as his own replacement. This assertion attests to the long shadow cast by former Deputy …

Gujarat Assembly elections | With two Opposition firebrands of 2017 now in BJP camp, election loses its spark
2 years ago

Gujarat Assembly elections | With two Opposition firebrands of 2017 now in BJP camp, election loses its spark

The Hindu  

A week is a long time in politics, and five years can be a millennia, if one goes by the trajectory of at least two out of the three main players of the opposition line up in Gujarat in the 2017 polls — Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor — with the third, Jignesh Mevani holding on to the opposition plank …

Gujarat Assembly polls: ‘Son’ rise in 20 seats as BJP, Congress field dynasts
2 years, 1 month ago

Gujarat Assembly polls: ‘Son’ rise in 20 seats as BJP, Congress field dynasts

The Hindu  

Though frowned upon and favoured in equal measures by parties of different hues, dynastic politics is a traditional feature of electoral contests in the country and the next month’s Gujarat Assembly polls are no exception. When tribal leader and ten-time Congress MLA Mohansinh Rathva severed his decades-old ties with the parent party and joined BJP last month, the ruling party …

Gujarat Assembly polls | AAP candidate withdraws nomination amidst claims of “force and kidnapping”
2 years, 1 month ago

Gujarat Assembly polls | AAP candidate withdraws nomination amidst claims of “force and kidnapping”

The Hindu  

Amidst high drama and claims of kidnapping and pressure, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party alleged that its candidate of the Surat East assembly seat in Gujarat, Kanchan Jariwala, was “kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to withdraw his nomination” ahead of the crucial assembly polls. “Watch how police and BJP goons together - dragged our Surat East candidate Kanchan Jariwala to …

‘BJP will break all records’: Amit Shah ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections
2 years, 1 month ago

‘BJP will break all records’: Amit Shah ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections

Hindustan Times  

Union minister Amit Shah Tuesday declared himself 'confident' the BJP will win next month's Gujarat election. Lauding the leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi and Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel, he said the state's fortunes had improved. Union home minister Amit Shah “The leadership of PM Modi and CM Patel is giving pace to development work. The party will count …

Gujarat Assembly polls | BJP, Congress change one candidate each
2 years, 1 month ago

Gujarat Assembly polls | BJP, Congress change one candidate each

The Hindu  

Ahead of next month's Gujarat Assembly elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the Opposition Congress have changed one candidate each — in Wadhwan and Botad seats respectively — in the Saurashtra region. Unhappy over the ticket distribution, Manhar Patel reportedly rushed to meet senior Congress observer for Gujarat polls Ashok Gehlot and tried to convince him and …

Gujarat Assembly elections | AAP CM candidate Isudan Gadhvi to contest from Khambhalia
2 years, 1 month ago

Gujarat Assembly elections | AAP CM candidate Isudan Gadhvi to contest from Khambhalia

The Hindu  

Aam Aadmi Party's Gujarat chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi will contest the next month's Assembly elections from Khambhalia seat in his home district of Devbhumi Dwarka, the party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday. Responding to it, Mr. Gadhvi tweeted, "The faith you and the people of Gujarat have placed in me, I assure that I will serve the …

BJP win in U.P. seats breaks myths
2 years, 5 months ago

BJP win in U.P. seats breaks myths

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janta Party wrested Samajwadi Party's strongholds of Azamgarh and Rampur in the Lok Sabha bypolls on Sunday. In Azamgarh, in a first, BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav won a closely-contested triangular contest by defeating SP's Dharmendra Yadav by 8,679 votes. The bypolls were necessitated because Azamgarh and Rampur were vacated by SP president Akhilesh Yadav and senior party leader …

UP polls: Keshav Maurya, nine ministers lose polls
2 years, 9 months ago

UP polls: Keshav Maurya, nine ministers lose polls

Hindustan Times  

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath may have created a record of sorts by leading his government to a second consecutive term in Uttar Pradesh but his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, along with about nine other ministerial colleagues, have lost the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. BJP leader and Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya lost to Samajwadi Party leader …

UP elections 2022: Small players may have big impact in phase 7
2 years, 9 months ago

UP elections 2022: Small players may have big impact in phase 7

India Today  

In 13 of the 54 assembly seats going to polls in the seventh and final phase of the protracted assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Patels — an influential other backward classes group — are believed to have a sizable presence. Both factions of the Apna Dal, OP Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party, and the Nishad Party are among the smaller …

UP Election: State's future safe in Akhilesh's hands, says Mayank Joshi after joining SP
2 years, 9 months ago

UP Election: State's future safe in Akhilesh's hands, says Mayank Joshi after joining SP

India TV News  

Highlights Mayank's joining the Samajwadi Party came ahead of the last phase of the UP assembly polls His induction was announced by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav at an election Rally in Azamgarh Earlier, Rita Bahuguna Joshi had sought a ticket from BJP for her son to contest from Lucknow Cantt Mayank Joshi, son of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Rita Bahuguna …

UP election 2022: BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's son joins SP
2 years, 9 months ago

UP election 2022: BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's son joins SP

India TV News  

After weeks of speculation, Mayank Joshi, son of BJP MP from Allahabad Rita Bahuguna Joshi, joined the Samajwadi Party on Saturday. Mayank Joshi, who is also the grandson of former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, joined the Samajwadi Party at an election meeting of party president Akhilesh Yadav in Azamgarh, hours before the campaign ended for the …

UP Polls 2022: Alliances put to test as BJP, SP prepare for face-off in last two phases on 3 and 7 March
2 years, 9 months ago

UP Polls 2022: Alliances put to test as BJP, SP prepare for face-off in last two phases on 3 and 7 March

Firstpost  

Fate of prominent BJP defectors to SP including Swami Prasad Maurya will be decided in the last stages of the elections. Most of the seats contested by BJP’s ally Apna Dal will also go to polls in these two phases Varanasi: Strength of old and new allies of the BJP and the Samajwadi Party will be on test more than …

Get, Set, Go: Jinx-breaking for BJP, or Repeat of SP-RLD Win? What Parties Expect from UP Polls Phase 1
2 years, 10 months ago

Get, Set, Go: Jinx-breaking for BJP, or Repeat of SP-RLD Win? What Parties Expect from UP Polls Phase 1

News 18  

What do the Uttar Pradesh elections hold for the fate of bigwig political parties in the state? The BJP on Tuesday assured stricter ‘love jihad’ law, free power for farmers and Ramayan University in Ayodhya among other promises to 24 crore residents of Uttar Pradesh in its manifesto — ‘Lok Kalyan Sankalp-Patra’. Chaudhary, the grandson of farmer leader and former …

Aparna Yadav, Rita Joshi's Son Miss Out as BJP Ends Suspense Over Lucknow Cantt Seat, Picks Minister
2 years, 10 months ago

Aparna Yadav, Rita Joshi's Son Miss Out as BJP Ends Suspense Over Lucknow Cantt Seat, Picks Minister

News 18  

Aparna Yadav, daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, and Mayank Joshi, BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s son, were edged out of the high-profile battle for Lucknow Cantt ahead of the crucial assembly elections as the BJP ended suspense on Lucknow seats and named its candidates. In Sarojini Nagar seat, which was being eyed by state minister for women …

EXCLUSIVE | Apna Dal's Anupriya Patel questions Akhilesh, asks 'What is his vision for UP polls?'
2 years, 10 months ago

EXCLUSIVE | Apna Dal's Anupriya Patel questions Akhilesh, asks 'What is his vision for UP polls?'

India TV News  

Highlights Apna Dal chief Anupriya Patel exclusively spoke to India TV. Apna Dal chief Anupriya Patel on Monday exclusively spoke to India TV ahead of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The candidate, Haider Ali Khan, is from Suar in western Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, from where Abdullah Azam, the son of jailed Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan is expected to …

2 MLAs of BJP ally Apna Dal (S) resign in run-up to UP Assembly polls
2 years, 11 months ago

2 MLAs of BJP ally Apna Dal (S) resign in run-up to UP Assembly polls

India Today  

In yet another blow to the ruling BJP, two legislators of its ally Apna Dal quit the party on Thursday, less than a month ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Union Minister Anupriya Patel-led Apna Dal had entered into an alliance with BJP and together contested the 2017 state assembly polls. Earlier on Thursday, OBC leader Dharam Singh Saini …

BJP's Sarabjit Kaur Becomes Chandigarh's New Mayor, Defeats AAP Candidate By Close Margin
2 years, 11 months ago

BJP's Sarabjit Kaur Becomes Chandigarh's New Mayor, Defeats AAP Candidate By Close Margin

News 18  

BJP municipal councillor Sarabjit Kaur Saturday became the new Chandigarh Municipal Corporation mayor, defeating Aam Aadmi Party’s Anju Katyal by just one vote in a direct contest. Out of the total 36 votes, 28 were polled while seven Congress councillors and the lone Shiromani Akali Dal councillor abstained. The results of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls which were declared on …

Gandhinagar municipal polls first test for new CM Bhupendra Patel
3 years, 2 months ago

Gandhinagar municipal polls first test for new CM Bhupendra Patel

The Hindu  

The tripartite contest involving the BJP, the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party in the civic polls in capital Gandhinagar will be the first test for the new administration headed by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. A close contest Traditionally, the election for the civic body, formed in 2010, has always been a close contest between the BJP and the Congress …

Anupriya Patel Returns to Delhi Power Circuit as MoS Commerce and Industry Before 2022 UP Polls
3 years, 5 months ago

Anupriya Patel Returns to Delhi Power Circuit as MoS Commerce and Industry Before 2022 UP Polls

News 18  

Ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, BJP ally Apna Dal ’s national president Anupriya Patel on Wednesday was inducted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers as MoS commerce and industry as the Centre underwent a major reshuffle, a first since the PM’s second term. The first time BJP tied up with Anupriya Patel’s party was in 2014 when …

Eyes on UP assembly polls, PM Modi's close aide AK Sharma made state BJP vice president
3 years, 6 months ago

Eyes on UP assembly polls, PM Modi's close aide AK Sharma made state BJP vice president

India TV News  

Keeping an eye on Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections due in 2022, former bureaucrat and MLC AK Sharma, also known to be a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been made BJP's vice president for the state. BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh on Saturday announced state chiefs for various fronts of the party. Earlier this month, BJP national …

Gujarat civic poll results show people's trust in BJP: Shah
3 years, 9 months ago

Gujarat civic poll results show people's trust in BJP: Shah

Deccan Chronicle  

Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday hailed the BJP's spectacular victory in elections to six municipal corporations in Gujarat, terming the results as a reflection of people's trust in policies pursued by the government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shah used the civic poll results to lash out at the opposition over the protests against the new …

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