In a major blow to the Congress in Gujarat, influential leader Vitthal Radadia, who was embroiled in a gun-toting controversy, and his son Jayesh, on Monday resigned as MLAs and are set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). ...
10:31 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Arjun Modhwadia on Tuesday resigned as the president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) after Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed for a two-third majority in the state sweeping away the Congress and Keshubhai Patel's Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP). ...
02:59 PM, Dec 20, 2012
A day after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi promised 50 lakh housing units and insurance for the poor, the Gujarat Congress released its manifesto on Tuesday. And the focus was on 'aam aadmi'. Gujarat Congress President Arjun Modhwadia assured that if the party came to power, then big corporates would take a back seat, and the focus would be on the common man. ...
04:31 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Senior Congress leaders in Gujarat who have rebelled against the party after being denied tickets today declared, they would not campaign for the party in the assembly elections. Former deputy chief minister Narhari Amin, former city mayor Himmatsinh Patel, senior Congress leader and former MLA Naresh Raval and a host of other Congress leaders today joined hands by organising an anti-party gathering in Ahmedabad on Sunday. ...
10:21 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Out of power since 1995, the Congress is leaving no stone unturned to snatch the mandate from the Narendra Modi-led BJP in Gujarat and has fielded three sitting MPs for the upcoming assembly battle, banking on their 'winnability'. ...
11:33 AM, Nov 27, 2012
With the BJP's crisis coming less than three weeks ahead of the Gujarat polls, it's opposition, the Congress, too has landed itself in a rather embarrassing position. One of its advertisement showcasing malnutrition in the state lifted the picture of a Sri Lankan child. ...
07:14 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Gujarat Congress MP brandishes gun at toll plaza staff. Delhi Police detain Arvind Kejriwal after protests. ...
11:55 PM, Oct 12, 2012
A Congress MP in Gujarat refused to pay toll fee, brandishing gun at a toll operator and bringing traffic to a halt. ...
10:10 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Vadodara: Gujarat Congress MP from Porbandar Vitthal Radadiya has defended his gun-toting act at a toll plaza booth saying he committed the act as he was upset over being called a fake Member of Parliament. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the Congress MP said that the toll booth operator told him that he was "bogus and fake" MP. "My driver told the toll booth operators that I am an MP. I also...
06:42 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Congress is expected to hold a massive rally in Gandhinagar on Monday in protest against the deaths of three Dalit men who were killed in police firing in Thangadh, Surendranagar on September 22. The party has demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the killings. Earlier, a CID probe had been ordered into the case and a police sub-inspector of Thangadh town suspended...
09:50 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Congress MP from Gujarat broke down in Parliament on Wednesday saying she was detained and harassed by police on 'Gujarat Foundation Divas'. The Congress MP, Prabhaben Taviyad found support from fellow MPs including Girija Vyas. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj intervened and said she would get back to the House after discussing the matter with the Gujarat government. MPs across party lines demanded matter be taken up by...
01:28 PM, May 02, 2012
The SIT report gives Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi a clean chit in the 2002 riots cases. ...
08:55 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat unit of Congress today demanded that the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team prosecute Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots. GPCC President Arjun Modhwadia made the demand in a letter to SIT chief RK Raghavan. SIT is currently preparing the final report on the complaint against Modi and others, to be submitted to a magistrate's court, as ordered by the Supreme...
11:53 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress on Monday launched the 'Sardar Sandesh Yatra' from Bardoli town of south Gujarat as a part of the campaign for the state elections, scheduled in December 2012. The 'Sardar Sandesh Yatra' was flagged in the presence of the state Congress president Arjun Modhwadia, Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil and former Union Minister and 2012 Campaign Committee chief Shankarsinh Vaghela. The Congress had last week announced to take...
08:35 AM, Jan 03, 2012
The Gujarat Congress threatened to launch a state-wide agitation. ...
07:06 PM, Oct 10, 2008
