Ahmedabad, Feb 11 (IANS) Gujarat Congress President Amit Chavda on Wednesday highlighted pending tribal land claims, farmers’ grievances, gaps in education and healthcare, and alleged exploitation of tribal communities during the 10th day of the ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ in south Gujarat.Addressing farmers’ difficulties at the Narmada Sugar Factory, Chavda said: “Considering rising cultivation costs, high prices of fertilisers and seeds, and increasing labour expenses, farmers must be paid Rs 5,00…
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Surat, Feb 8 (IANS) Gujarat Congress President Amit Chavda, on Sunday, accused the state government of failing on law and order and alleged large-scale corruption at the Bardoli Sugar factory in Surat district. Addressing the media, Chavda claimed that illegal activities had increased in the Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi’s area, alleging that “bootleggers and anti-social elements have become rampant”.”Residents were complaining that liquor and drugs were destroying the y…
Gandhinagar/Mumbai, Jan 28 (IANS) Political leaders across Gujarat, on Wednesday, expressed deep sorrow over the death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who was among the five people killed in a chartered aircraft crash near Baramati. The incident occurred when a Bombardier Learjet 45, operating a chartered flight from Mumbai to Baramati, crashed while attempting to land at the Baramati airport.Aviation authorities said the aircraft caught fire on impact, leaving no survivors amon…
New Delhi/Ahmedabad, Jan 24 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday, sharply escalated the political row over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that the electoral roll exercise was being misused as a tool for “planned and strategic vote theft” in Gujarat and other states. In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the same pattern had emerged wherever the SIR was implemented. “Wherever there is SIR, there is vo…
New Delhi/Ahmedabad, Jan 24 (IANS) The Congress announced new appointments to two key departments of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee as part of organisational restructuring. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge approved the appointments with immediate effect. Mahesh Rajput is now Chairperson of the OBC Department. Rajendrakumar Parghi is Chairperson of the Adivasi Congress in Gujarat.Rajput has been with the Congress organisation for several decades. He currently serves as Working Presid…
Ahmedabad, Jan 21 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress separately accused the BJP of engineering large-scale voter deletions during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Gujarat.Both opposition parties alleged that false applications were being filed in bulk as part of a coordinated attempt to disenfranchise voters.Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, AAP Gujarat president Isudan Gadhvi claimed the SIR process was being misused to delete vote…