Gujarat
6 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “Gujarat”, published between December 2017 and April 2019. They are filed mainly under BJP, Election commission 2019, Congress. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Voter ID more powerful than IED, says PM Modi after voting in Ahmedabad
Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his vote in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Tuesday during the third phase of the Lok Sabha election, and told reporters afterwards that a voter ID card was far more powerful than an IED. What Modi said Comparing the two, Modi said the IED was the weapon of terrorism while the voter ID was the strength of democracy, and that people should understand the power their voter cards carried. He also said voting left a person feeling pure, likening it to the feeling after taking a holyRead More
BJP drops Paresh Rawal, fields HS Patel from Ahmedabad East
The BJP has replaced actor-turned-politician Paresh Rawal as its candidate for the Ahmedabad East Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat, naming Hasmukh S Patel, the MLA from Amraiwadi, in his place ahead of the 2019 general election. The new candidate Patel has twice won the Amraiwadi Assembly seat, in 2012 and 2017. The party dropped Rawal after the actor made clear he did not wish to contest this election. Rawal’s reaction Rawal tweeted that he was flying from Chennai to his constituency to support the BJP’s new candidate, and said heRead More
Modi likely to contest Varanasi again in 2019 despite talk of Puri, say BJP sources
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh again, senior BJP sources said, even as speculation grew that he might choose the temple town of Puri in Odisha for the April-May polls. Varanasi favoured, Puri unconfirmed According to the sources, the party’s parliamentary board strongly favours a repeat contest in Varanasi. Whether Mr Modi will also stand from a second constituency, and whether that seat would be Puri, remained unclear. In an interview with the news agency ANI, the PrimeRead More
PM Modi begins two-day Gujarat visit, to launch pension scheme and Ahmedabad Metro
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to begin a two-day visit to Gujarat on Monday, during which he would open the first, six-km phase of the Ahmedabad Metro and launch a pension scheme for informal workers, PM-SYM (Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan Yojana), official sources said. He would also lay the foundation stone of the Umiya Dham temple complex. Jamnagar The visit was to start in Jamnagar in the Saurashtra region, where the Prime Minister would dedicate to the nation the Guru Gobind Singh Hospital’s new 750-bed wing and open its PGRead More
In Surat, PM Modi says only a majority government can take strong decisions
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday used a series of events in Surat to argue for a government with a clear majority, while criticising what he called “people with a negative mindset”. Case for a majority government After opening the Surat airport extension and a number of civic projects, Modi pointed to demonetisation as a bold step that his majority government had been able to take, saying it had helped curb real estate prices. He said the country’s progress had suffered over the past three decades and that only aRead More
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