Topic: Gujarat Elections

Congress manifesto for Gujarat polls to include schemes for upliftment of women, job creation models, plans to offset GST effects, among others.

Weeks before Gujarat polls, NDA govt forms ministerial panel to frame law to put an end to the practice.

Cotton farmers in the Saurashtra region don’t want a change of guard in Gujarat, say BJP has ensured better roads, schools, power and water in villages.

While interacting with the students of IIT Gandhinagar recently, I observed that most of them still believed in Modi, and Gujarat was a safe place for women, unlike most of the states.

The youth of Gujarat who are reaching the voting age of 18 for the first time in this election were 15-16 years old when the state voted overwhelmingly to make Modi the Prime Minister. Naturally, at that time, the Modi craze was very high.

Caste and regional divides will influence elections next month but newer concerns such as the economic slowdown and aspirations for progress will also matter.

The young voters not only seem to be enormously interested in these elections, they are also likely to vote for the Congress in much bigger numbers than they had ever in the past.

Gujarat is looking for a Vikas CD a not a CD of someone’s personal life, writes Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani

The Patidar issue and the sex video have nothing do to with any standing on morality or pubic cause whatsoever, writes Yashwant Deshmukh

Unlike the BJP, where Amit Shah makes all the decisions, one isn’t sure who holds the baton in the Congress with regards to alliances.