Ahmedabad, April 20 (IANS) Fifty per cent reservation for women in local self-government institutions was made possible due to the efforts of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress party, Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil said on Monday while campaigning for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) elections. Addressing election meetings across various wards in Ahmedabad, Gohil said the measure had strengthened women’s participation at the grassroots level.He added that altho…
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New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will visit Vadodara on Monday to attend a tribal rights gathering, as the Congress intensifies preparations for upcoming local body elections in Gujarat.He is scheduled to participate in the ‘Adivasi Samvidhan Adhikar Sammelan’, to be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., where members of tribal communities from across central and eastern Gujarat are expected to attend.Rajendrakumar Parghi, chairperson of the Adivasi Congress …
New Delhi/Ahmedabad, March 5 (IANS) The Congress has constituted several state-level committees in Gujarat to coordinate its preparations for the upcoming local body elections this year, assigning senior leaders to oversee strategy, campaign operations, and election management as the party begins organisational groundwork.In a statement on Thursday, party general secretary K.C. Venugopal said the Congress president had approved the proposal for the constitution of the committees for the ensuing …
Ahmedabad/New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Congress Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil, on Sunday, urged the Union and Gujarat governments to take immediate steps to safeguard and assist the Gujarati community affected by the escalating conflict involving Iran, Israel and the US, which has led to widespread disruption across the Gulf region. In a video statement, Gohil said continuous reports of drone attacks, missile strikes and air raids in Iran and Israel, as well as in Gulf countries such as Abu Dhabi…
Ahmedabad, Jan 22 (IANS) Authorities on Thursday intensified their probe into the deaths of Yashrajsinh Gohil — nephew of senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil — and his wife, Rajeshwariba. The couple was found dead with gunshot wounds at their residence in the Bodakdev area of Ahmedabad late Wednesday night.Police said the bodies have been sent for forensic post-mortem examinations to determine the sequence of events and establish whether the shooting was accidental or de…
Ahmedabad, Jan 22 (IANS) A woman was shot dead and her husband later died by suicide in a late-night firing incident at a high-rise residential complex in Ahmedabad’s Bodakdev-Thaltej area, police said on Thursday.The incident occurred around 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday night at NRI Tower on Judges Bungalow Road in Ahmedabad.The deceased have been identified as Yashrajsinh Gohil, a Class-I officer with the Gujarat Maritime Board, and his wife Rajeshwari Gohil. Yashrajsinh Gohil was the nephew of f…