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Early trends from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation elections show the BJP leading in several wards as vote counting progresses. Polling across Gujarat's local bodies saw a significant turnout, with municipal corporations recording 51.81% in Ahmedabad. The elections, a key exercise before next year's assembly polls, featured major parties and new municipal corporations.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's remarks about Kerala voters being "educated and clever" and unlike those in Gujarat have drawn sharp criticism from the BJP. Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor responded by urging a higher standard of political discourse, stating that "our standards should not be lowered to that of those who use bad language."

NEW DELHI: The CPM has decided to align with the congress in gujarat to take on the BJP in the assembly elections despite its differences with the main opposition party.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said that he would campaign against the congress in gujarat until November 8.

The congress in gujarat has demanded that three top institutes in and around the city join the common admission process.

Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janta Dal may have distanced itself from the UPA, but its Gujarat unit has decided to support Congress.

AHMEDABAD: AICC General secretary Kamal Nath said on Thursday the main election plank of the Congress for the December 12 Gujarat Assembly polls would be peace, communal harmony, development and prosperity for the people of the state.

On the eve of Narendra Modi's Hoonkar Rally here, Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) on Saturday questioned the Gujarat model of development by releasing various data of Planning Commission, Census of India and CAG that put Gujarat on the lower rung of development indexes.

Patels, forming 15 per cent of Gujarat's electorate, appear to have given clear signals to the BJP that they are no longer captive voters of the party.

Both the BJP and the Congress have opposed a circular from the state election commission (SEC) to conduct elections to 3,252 gram panchayats without the 10% reservation to members of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

BJP state president Satish Poonia on Thursday said chief minister Ashok Gehlot who campaigned for the congress in gujarat and promoted the Rajasthan development model actually is the leading state in the country in crime and unemployment.

The Congress called state bandh on Friday met with a very luke warm response in the diamond city whereas the district town of Navsari was affected partially in the morning hours.

The Congress crushed BJP in the Gujarat University's syndicate elections.On Sunday, the GU campus hosted elections for 10 syndicate seats and three seats of Board of Accounts (BOA).

In a major setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Gujarat University syndicate elections saw Congress-backed candidates win two of the three general category seats up for grabs. Indravijaysinh Gohil of the Congress won one seat after cornering more than half the votes

Congress general secretary Madhusudan Mistry has appointed three Congress MLAs from Gujarat and one from Uttar Pradesh as facilitators in Jharkhand.

In her attempt to revive the congress in gujarat, AICC president Sonia Gandhi on Monday announced a new but small team of carefully chosen office-bearers for Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee.

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Friday predicted electoral rout for congress in gujarat and Himachal. He was commenting on the outcome of the grand old party's Chintan Shivir which was recently held in Udaipur. According to Kishor, the brainstorming session only helped give some time to the Congress leadership, at least till the impending electoral rout in Gujarat and HP.

With Covid-19 cases mounting to more than 21,000 in the state and the fatality count going past 1,300, the Gujarat Congress on Tuesday asked the BJP government to issue a white paper on its strategy to tackle the situation.

Rattled by resignations of 3 MLAs ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, the congress in gujarat shifted several of its legislators to resorts and bungalows to thwart any "poaching" bid, a party leader said. With the resignations of Akshay Patel and Jitu Chaudhary on June 3 and that of Brijesh Merja on June 5, the Congress' strength in the House has been reduced to 65.

They were Congress’s impregnable bastions that repelled the invasion of rival political armies for nearly two and a half decades. However, the 2022 election became a game-changer, with the BJP creating a record by winning 156 seats, including nine of the 14 Congress strongholds.

The Congress MLAS led by the Leader of Opposition Shankersinh Vaghela have disrupted the Gujarat Assembly and have decided to march to the Governor OP Kohli’s residence and demand president rule in the state.

Gujarat Congress has alleged that whenever the elections come near, Chief Minister Narendra Modi spreads false information.

Continuing with its drive to woo the voters for forthcoming assembly polls, the Congress party has promised setting up of a Gujarat Administrative Tribunal (GAT) along with other sops to government employees.

Those MLAs who left recently all were from his group and he did nothing to stop them.He still has an RSS/BJP style of working.".

Ticket seekers from the minority community have demanded at least 14 tickets from the Congress in the Gujarat Assembly election schedules to be held on December 11 and 16.