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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 ...
Saurashtra topcop “threatens” Dalit builder his mustache w...
CV News/ Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Atul Chavda, an Amreli-based Dalit builder from Saurashtra, has complained to the director-general of police, Gujarat, that a senior police official of Amreli, an ASP, has used "derogatory words" against him on April 8 in front of the Circuit House, saying, "Police have to be very alert with Dalits having musta...
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...
State level 16 headed body formed for journalists’ security in G...
Ahmedabad April 9: Coming from all across the state, journalists on Tuesday formed a state level body to ensure safety and security for working journalists in Gujarat.
The formation of such a body was necessitated after umpteen number of incidents of attacks on journalists that occurred in and outside Gujarat. What ignited Tuesday's outburst fro...
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...
GDP growth is not the true indicator people’s well being
Gujarat activists release manifesto
CV News/ Tuesday, April 09, 2019
Fifty-odd Gujarat-based academics and social activists, many of them well-known Sarvodayists who had played a major role in the fight against Indira Gandhi-imposed Emergency, have released a people's manifesto at a gathering in Gujarat Vidypeeth, the university founded by Maha...
Election Commission suffering from worst-ever “credibility crisi...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019
Counterview Desk
In an open letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, a group of ex-bureaucrats have lamented ‘weak-kneed’ responses of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Citing various violations of the model code of conduct, and pointing towards how ECI has taken little act...
BJP manifesto follows Savarkar’s two-nation theory, ignores mino...
CV News/ Monday, April 08, 2019
Sharply criticising the BJP manifesto, which it has sought to call Sankalp Patra (pledge document), the Gujarat-based civil rights organization, Minority Coordination Committee (MCC), has said that it has totally ignored the minorities, who form about 20% of India's population. Worse, it said, it is a document tha...
Differently abled 16,375 voters are real champions of democracy
60-year-old Premdas Prajapati, a prgana chakshu (blind) since very early infant age, is a champion of democracy in real sense with his deeper understanding to cast his vote to participate in the festival of democracy (elections) for the 17 th Lok Sabha to be held in Gujarat on April 23.
“Though I am blind, still, I have deeper understanding to val...
Reprieve for Ahmed Patel,tough battle for Congress as new face Sherkha...
By Abdul hafiz lakhani Ahmedabad
The Congress on Thursday announced the names of two candidates for Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat, taking the total number of seats on which it has declared its candidates to 357. . The party has fielded Sher Khan Abdul Shakur Pathan from Bharuch Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat, putting to rest all speculation abou...
The average annual self-income of 479 sitting MPs is Rs.30.29 Lakhs
Andhra Pradesh’s 19 MPs analysed have the highest average annual self-income of Rs. 105.9 Lakhs, followed by Odisha’s 15 MPs analysed with average annual self-income of Rs. 68.8 Lakhs.
2 MPs analysed of Goa have the lowest average annual self-income of Rs. 5.2 Lakhs, followed by 33 MPs analysed of Tamil Nadu with average annual self-income of Rs...
20% MPs have declared business as their profession
Out of 479 MPs analysed, 5(1%) MPs have not given their profession in their affidavit.
ADR has categorised the professions of the MPs in 15 categories such as Business, doctor, Lawyer, farmer, including more than one profession categories such as Farming and business, Agriculture and services etc.
98(20%) out of 479 MPs have declared business as ...
”Failure” of a Modi campaign: 51% Gujarat men tobacco addi...
Saturday, March 30, 2019
By Rajiv Shah
While the Gujarat government may claim to have decided to begin a “tobacco free Gujarat” campaign in 2011 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the state chief minister. Yet, latest available data suggest that as many as 51.4 per cent of men and seven per cent of women in the state use any form of tobacco ...