Tag: Gujarat Election

The Gujarat Assembly Elections will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5, while the results will be declared on December 8.

Bhubaneswar/Gujarat: With the voting for the first phase of Assembly elections in Gujarat over today, a lot depends on the mandate decided by Odia voters residing in the State, with a major chunk in the Silk city Surat. There are reportedly over 4 lakh Odias in Surat only, and like every time, this population will […]

New Delhi: An estimated 68 per cent of voters exercised their franchise in the first phase of polling in 89 constituencies in Gujarat till 5 p.m., with the Election Commission saying the figure is likely to cross 70 per cent. Addressing a press conference Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha said polling was going on till late […]

New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that the issue of ‘development’ has been missing from his speeches. “‘Vikas’ (development) is missing from the Prime Minister’s speeches this time. What is the reason,” Gandhi asked on the day of the first phase of polling in Gujarat. He […]

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be back in his home state to campaign on November 27 and 29, when he is slated to address eight rallies across Saurashtra and south Gujarat, where polling for the first phase of assembly elections will be held on December 9. Prior to his visit, a horde of Union […]

Ahmedabad: The Election Commission on Tuesday said the assembly elections in Gujarat will be held in December. “I cannot confirm the dates yet, but the (assembly) elections will be held in December,” Chief Election Commissioner A.K. Joti told the media here. The last elections to the 182-member assembly were held in December 2012. Joti announced setting […]

Ahmedabad: Around 11 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the initial two hours during polling on 89 seats of Saurashtra and South Gujarat regions in the first phase of the crucial Gujarat assembly polls. After the polling process began at 8 am, people could be seen stepping out of their homes despite cold weather […]

Lathi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today tried to woo farmers in Gujarat amid a high- stakes poll battle, promising that their loans would be waived if his party forms government in the state. Calling Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani a “rubber stamp”, he alleged that BJP president Amit Shah was remote- controlling the government […]

Of late – since his much publicized US visit in September, to be more precise – there has been a spate of reports and commentaries in the national media about the ‘metamorphosis’ of Rahul Gandhi. The commentators would have us believe that the Congress scion has undergone a complete makeover after returning from his nearly […]