Ahmedabad, April 7 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Gujarat unit president Isudan Gadhvi on Tuesday said the party will not contest the Umreth by-election and will instead concentrate fully on the upcoming local body elections. He further challenged the Congress to directly take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Speaking to IANS, Gadhvi said, “We will not fight the Umreth by-poll. We want to focus on local body elections only. We want to see a direct contest between the BJP and Congress, as …
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Ahmedabad/New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has alleged a pattern of arrests targeting its workers in Gujarat ahead of local body elections, with its national convenor Arvind Kejriwal writing to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel seeking a meeting and claiming the actions were part of a “pre-planned conspiracy” to weaken the party.In a letter issued on Thursday, Kejriwal said more than 160 party workers had been arrested in the past three months and that the pace of detentions …
Ahmedabad, April 1 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party in Gujarat on Wednesday alleged that the Gujarat Police has detained its party President Isudan Gadhvi at Khambhalia police station in Devbhumi Dwarka district, where he had gone to meet party workers.AAP MLA from Visavadar, Gopal Italia, said that Gadhvi was detained at around 2:30 p.m. after arriving at the police station. He alleged that police told party members they had received instructions “from the BJP office” to detain AAP leaders.Italia…
Ahmedabad, March 24 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday released its first list of more than 460 candidates for the upcoming local body elections in Gujarat, with the party’s state president Isudan Gadhvi describing the move as the beginning of a shift towards broader participation in electoral politics.In a video statement, Gadhvi said the list includes candidates for taluka and district panchayats, municipalities and municipal corporations across the state.He said the selection had bee…
Ahmedabad, March 22 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest the upcoming local self-government elections in Gujarat without any alliance and is set to announce its first list of candidates shortly, the party’s state president Isudan Gadhvi said on Sunday.Addressing a press conference in Ahmedabad, Gadhvi said the party has decided to go it alone, emphasising that AAP follows its own electoral strategy.“AAP will not form any alliance in the local elections. We move forward with our own …
Ahmedabad, Feb 14 (IANS) Amreli District Congress president Pratap Dudhat has launched a sharp attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat on Saturday, claiming that further political fallout is imminent within the party following the resignation of farmer leader Raju Karpada.In a video statement, Dudhat alleged that after Karpada’s exit, the next political casualty could be AAP’s state president Isudan Gadhvi.“After Raju Karpada, now Isudan Gadhvi will face political consequences,” D…
Ahmedabad, Feb 11 (IANS) Senior farmer leader Raju Karpada has resigned from all posts in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat, marking a notable setback for the party in the state. Party leaders cited political pressure from the state government as the farmer leader spent over 100 days in jail during the Haddad agitation.Karpada, who led the AAP’s Kisan Morcha and served as president of its Gujarat Kisan Cell, announced his decision on social media, leading to speculation over his political f…
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…
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…