Gujarat Elections
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AAP will contest all 182 seats in Gujarat Assembly elections next year
Meanwhile, senior Gujarati journalist Isudan Gadhvi joined the Arvind Kejriwal-led party on Monday.
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Gujarat local body poll results: BJP set for major victory, AAP once again makes inroads
As of Tuesday evening, the BJP had won 6,110 of 8,261 seats, while the Congress secured only 1,768 seats and three municipalities.
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Gujarat local body polls: Arvind Kejriwal says AAP’s win in Surat start of ‘new age of politics’
He thanked the people for making AAP, which contested the elections for the first time, the main opposition in Surat and pushing Congress to the third spot.
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Gujarat: BJP retains all six civic bodies with big margins, AAP makes a mark in Surat
As per the latest trends, the saffron party went past the majority mark in all cities, except Surat.
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Gujarat local body polls record 39.25% turnout
Polling was held in six civic bodies – Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar.
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Hardik Patel invites Gujarat deputy chief minister Nitin Patel to leave the BJP and join him
The state deputy chief minister did not assume office at the secretariat in Gandhinagar on Friday, after he was stripped of several portfolios.
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Gujarat elected only 13 female MLAs – continuing a nationwide trend of low representation for women
Women made up just 7% of the contestants for the 182-member house. Yet, the victory margins of those who won were bigger than those of their male counterparts.
Basim-u-Nissa & Gilles Verniers
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‘The BJP will now be scared of what the public can do’: Patidars are happy with party’s narrow win
The community – vehemently anti-BJP in the poll run-up – says the slim victory margin will force the party to address their concerns.
Aarefa Johari
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How Gujarat was won (and lost): 28 charts that explain the election results
The prime minister’s home state has thrown up an ambivalent verdict. A close look at the local and sub-regional trends.
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Video: Savvy Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani’s win is a victory for marginalised groups
Mevani was the face of the uprising that began after four Dalit youth were flogged in Una, Gujarat.
Shone Satheesh
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Hardik Patel has a post-poll plan: Campaign against ‘communal distrust’ in Gujarat and EVMs
The Patidar leader says he will not think about ‘joining politics’ until the 2019 general election.
Dhirendra K Jha
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‘BJP’s victory, Congress’s rebirth’: What front pages across India said about the Gujarat results
The cricket metaphors were inevitable.
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