Ahmedabad: Gujarat Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas, the face of the Narendra Modi government in TV debates, was among the five ministers who bit the dust today in the Gujarat Assembly polls which also saw the shock defeat of two Congress heavyweights - Arjun Modhwadia and Shaktisinh Gohil.
Vyas, also the spokesperson of the Gujarat government, was humbled by Balvantsinh Rajput of Congress for the Siddhpur assembly seat in Patan district by 25,824 votes. Vyas had defeated Rajput in the 2007 Assembly elections by a margin of 2,429 votes.
However, delimitation considerably dented his prospects to clinch a consecutive win. The defeat of three ministers of Cabinet rank and two junior ministers came even as Modi led the party for an emphatic victory for the third consecutive time.
Agriculture Minister Dileep Sanghani went down to Congress' Paresh Dhanani by a margin of 29,893 votes for Amreli seat while Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Fakirbhai Vaghela lost to Congress' Jethabhai Vaghela by 22,839 votes from Vadgam in Banaskantha district. Among junior ministers, Minister of State for Forest and Environment Kiritsinh Rana put up a brave fight but ultimately lost to sitting Congress MP Soma Ganda by a margin of 1,561 votes for Limbdi seat in Surendranagar district....
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05:07 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Ahmedabad/Shimla: Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has crossed the half-way mark in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly and is all set to form the next government in the state even as the Congress has fought back after trailing for a long time in Himachal Pradesh to take the lead. Modi is sitting pretty as his party is leading in all the regions of the state. The Congress is far behind...
09:23 AM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: Narendra Modi will continue to lord over Gujarat for the next five years as he is all set to score a hat-trick of electoral victories and lead the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) back to power. According to the post-poll survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and seat projections by Chennai Mathematical Institute Director Rajeeva Karandikar, Modi will steamroll the opposition and become...
08:08 PM, Dec 19, 2012
The BJP under Modi's leadership is set to trounce the Congress and give the Gujarat CM a hat-trick of electoral victories. ...
11:34 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Politics in Gujarat has been synonymous with Narendra Modi for over one decade. Modi has not only towered over his rivals in the Congress but also over his party colleagues. The post-poll survey conducted in Gujarat by CSDS for CNN-IBN and The Week shows that the BJP under Modi's leadership is once again set to trounce the Congress and give the Gujarat Chief Minister a hat-trick of electoral...
08:25 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Can Narendra Modi better the tally of 2007 in 2012? Professor Suhas Palshikar of CSDS joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the final phase of Gujarat elections. Q. With all the firing and cross-firing of Politicians verbally, Gujarat must be heaving a sigh of relief? Asked by: sundar1950in A. This crossfire actually happens to be a healthy part of democracy and it helps all of us to view and...
05:37 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Ahmedabad: 5.36 pm: The voter turnout in the second and final phase of Gujarat assembly elections on Monday was 70 per cent. The turnout has been the same as that in the first phase of polling in the state on December 13. 5.05 pm: The voting on Monday closed in the second and final phase of the assembly elections in Gujarat. Millions cast their ballot at 23,318 polling stations in...
08:40 AM, Dec 17, 2012
The polling in the first phase of Gujarat Assembly elections began on Thursday in Saurashtra and South Gujarat. ...
01:32 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: 7.28 pm: 67 per cent record turnout recorded in first phase of Gujarat Assembly elections. 5.28 pm: Voting ends in phase one of Gujarat Assembly elections. 4.17 pm: 53 per cent voting recorded in the first phase of Gujarat Assembly elections till 3 pm. 2.51 pm: Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia casts his vote. 2.15 pm: Thirty eight per cent voting recorded till 1 pm. 1.53 pm: Around 20...
08:00 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: Saurasthra and South Gujarat are the two regions of the state that will vote on on Thursday. Following are the numbers of the past and the key election issues for these regions: Gujarat elections result in 2007: Total 182 seats BJP 117 Congress 59 Others 6 Saurasthra result in 2007: Total 52 seats BJP 38 Congress 13 Others 1 The big questions: - Will Keshubhai Patel and his party...
07:56 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: With the first phase of polling set to begin in Saurashtra and South Gujarat on Thursday, former chief minister and BJP rebel Keshubhai Patel is one of the candidates who could make a dent in CM Narendra Modi's dominance in the state. The 84-year-old has emerged as a force to reckon with after he ended his lifelong association with the BJP and floated the Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP). Keshubhai's...
07:18 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Why did Rahul Gandhi keep off campaigning in Gujarat till the last moment? Is it because the Congress has accepted defeat even before the actual polls? CNN-IBN's Ahmedabad bureau chief Meghdoot Sharon joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. If my guess is right, if Congress losses badly that will because of lack of organistion in Gujarat. If it makes some improvement in the tally it will...
12:38 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Ahmedabad: The campaigning for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections 2012 ended on Tuesday with Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi hitting out at each other. While the past few days saw Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi raising the war cry for the Congress in the state, the last day of the campaigning saw the Congress General Secretary setting foot...
06:03 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Rajkot: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will address meetings at Sanand in Ahmedabad in central Gujarat and at Jamnagar and Amreli in the Saurashtra region on Tuesday. Observers say it's in the rural confines of Saurashtra that the most powerful political battle is being fought. BJP rebels led by Keshubhai Patel will be looking to make a dent in Chief Minister Narendra Modi's original bastion. Khodal Dham President Naresh Patel...
09:01 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Addressing an election rally in Rajpipla in Gujarat on Saturday, Narendra Modi said that the Congress was teaming up with Keshubhai Patel's party to defeat him. ...
04:53 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Election Commission on Wednesday turned down Bharatiya Janata Party's application seeking to disqualify Keshubhai Patel-led Gujarat Parivartan Party. In its application the BJP had asked the EC to disallow Keshubhai's party from contesting the Gujarat Assembly elections, which are being held in December. Keshubhai Patel, a former chief minister of Gujarat, split from the BJP in July 2012 to form his own outfit. The Gujarat Parivartan Party had...
04:46 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: Former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel, who had left BJP to form his own political outfit Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP), on Friday announced the first list of 63 candidates for the first phase of Assembly elections. Keshubhai himself on Friday filed his nomination papers from Visavadar constituency in Rajkot district. Another BJP rebel and former Minister of state for Home Gordhan Zadafia also filed his nomination papers from Gondal in...
04:01 AM, Nov 24, 2012
Ahmedabad: Once a trusted aide of Narendra Modi, former Gujarat minister Gordhan Zadaphia is out of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and believes that the Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) he has joined will do what Mayawati did in Uttar Pradesh -- socially engineer votes away from the chief minister. In 2002, Zadaphia was minister of state for home in the Gujarat government, an important member of the Modi cabinet during...
01:29 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) president Keshubhai Patel on Wednesday said Chief Minister Narendra Modi was spreading lies about the state's development. Addressing a huge public rally on the conclusion of his month-long 'Parivartan Sandesh Yatra', he said here, "If there were a competition for telling the maximum number of lies, Modi would win." He also blamed Modi-led BJP government for failing to complete the Narmada canal project in time,...
11:01 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Ahmedabad: Following the Congress and the Chief Minister Narendra Modi, former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel will also undertake an election campaign yatra through Gujarat starting from September 23. Eighty-three years old Patel, who quit the BJP recently and formed 'Gujarat Parivartan Party' (GPP), has decided to call it 'Parivartan yatra'. Gujarat Congress leaders have taken out four yatras so far, while Modi has embarked on 'Swami Vivekananda Yuva Vikas Yatra'....
10:46 PM, Sep 19, 2012
