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Gujarat’s first transgender candidate for Lok Sabha was “c...
Monday, April 22, 2019 By Tanushree Gangopadhyay*
Gujarat’s first transgender candidate in the electoral fray, Jaysawal Naresh Babulal, will contest from the labour area of Ahmedabad East, but couldn’t claim her gender identity. Ironically, this vibrant constituency has fielded the largest number of crorepatis, numbering seven.
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Amit Shah earns just Rs 56 lakh annually, owns Rs 40 cr, faces four se...
CV News/ Saturday, April 20, 2019 BJP's high-profile candidate from Gandhinagar, Amit Shah, who also happens to be the party's national president, has claimed that his annual income is just about Rs 56 lakh, and his main sources of income are agriculture, rent and share market. Shah has also declared that he owns 40.32 crore of assets -- 23.55 c...
Book on seven interconnected “political” murders, includin...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 17, 2019 A controversial new book in Hindi, ‘Satta ki Suli’, with an account on CBI judge BH Loya’s death case, released in Ahmedabad, has sought to cover not only the alleged murder of the judge but also a series of seven other "political murders".
The book, authored by Mahendra Mishra, Pradeep Singh and Upendra Chowd...
How Modi’s Margdarshak Mandal became parking place for discarded...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 By RK Misra*
Political epitaphs have a way of returning to reclaim the hand that buried them. If the present prime minister of India spares no effort to berate Jawaharlal Nehru for perceived injustice to his deputy Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, how would Narendra Modi be rated when posterity evaluates him for putting to pa...
Future MPs being told to take a pledge to ensure sufficient budget for...
CV News/ Tuesday, April 16, 2019 As part of the Rape Free India Campaign, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), in alliance with the Shala Mitra Sangh, a civil society group of Gujarat, released a draft pledge for the would-be elected representatives of the Lok Sabha polls, asking them to swear for ushering in a rape-free India.
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Study documents 34 smart city projects forcibly displacing 17,700 peop...
CV News/ Monday, April 15, 2019 As part of the Rape Free India Campaign, the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF), in alliance with the Shala Mitra Sangh, a civil society group of Gujarat, released a draft pledge for the would-be elected representatives of the Lok Sabha polls, asking them to swear for ushering in a rape-free India.
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Elections 2019: BJP in Gujarat trying hard to respond to Modi ‘withdra...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 COUNTER VIEW By RK Misra*
Gujarat is the home state of two of the most powerful people in India today: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Both were deeply rooted in state politics before graduating to centre-stage. Both leveraged their standing in the state to carve out a national niche for themsel...
43% Congress, 32% BJP Lok Sabha candidates declare criminal cases
CV News/ Saturday, April 13, 2019 The Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) has found that, among the major parties, 16 (31%) out of 51 candidates from BJP, 23 (43%) out of 53 candidates from Congress, 16 (20%) out of 80 candidates from BSP, 3 (14%) out of 22 candidates analysed from AIADMK, and 11 (46%) out of 24 candidates from DMK have decl...
Why are you silent on discrimination against Dalit jawans? Macwan ques...
Friday, April 12, 2019 Close on the heels of releasing his book in Gujarati, "Bhed Bharat", which lists 319 cases of atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis across the country over the last five years, well-known Gujarat Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan has shot an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, telling him the reasons why he does ...
42% of Gujarat wants better employment opportunities
Focusing on Gujarat, this report provides an analysis of 10 most important governance issues as rated by the voters of Gujarat (out of the 31 listed in the questionnaire). These voters’ priorities are further examined in relation to the performance of the Government on those issues as perceived by the respondents. A three-level scale of GOOD, AVERA...
Criminal Antecedents of Contesting Candidates in LS
The Supreme Court in its judgment in WP (Civil) No. 536 of 2011 (Public Interest Foundation & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Anr.), dated September 25th 2018, has given directions regarding publication of criminal antecedents of contesting candidates by candidates and political parties. ADR report said. Additionally, the Election Commission o...
Those who disagree politically not anti-national, are not enemies, but...
CV News/ Thursday, April 04, 2019 In a sharply-worded critique of those at the top leadership in the BJP, party stalwart LK Advani, who has been "disowned" by his junior colleagues, has said that the party's conception of Indian nationalism "never regarded those who disagree ... politically as anti-national”. The comment comes amidst efforts by ...
Dalit activist detained in Junagadh, as Modi arrives in city for poll ...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Bharata Parmar, a Saurashtra-based Dalit rights leader close to well-known Gujarat Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani, who is an independent MLA, has been detained ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi arriving in Junagadh to address an election rally. Bringing this to light, Mevani has claimed, Parmar has been detain...
Party wise List of Candidate
General Election to the Lok Sabha - 2019 Sr.No. Party Candidate
1 Akhil Bhartiya Jansangh 1
2 All India Hindustan Congress Party 1
3 Ambedkar National Congress 2
4 Ambedkarite Party of India 1
5 Apna Desh Party 2
6 Bahujan Maha Party 1
7 Bahujan Mukti Party 6
8 Bahujan Republican Socialist Party 1
9 Bahujan Samaj Party 25
10 Bahujan Su...
Congress’ Nyay scheme a surgical strike on poverty: The Economis...
Influential British weekly The Economist
CV News/ Tuesday, April 09, 2019 Top British weekly "The Economist" has praised Congress' Nyay scheme, which seeks to provide an extra Rs 6,000 to poor households, quoting a woman health worker, Rajmati, in a village in Haryana as saying, “It will also mean that you can survive without a husband,” insis...