While Thakor & Patel, once considered close to Rahul Gandhi, contested this Gujarat election on BJP tickets, Mevani, who had won in 2017 as an Independent, is now with Congress.
Ex-Congressman Patel also tells media to ask new party chief Kharge if Gandhi family still calls the shots & blames the Congress for relying on 'communal politics' in Bilkis Bano case.
While Alpesh Thakor and Hardik Patel are members of the BJP, they can no longer join forces within the party. Jignesh Mevani is a lone ranger in Congress.
According to a BJP functionary, Patel may also contest the Gujarat polls. The party also sees in him a potential contender against the appeal enjoyed by the Aam Aadmi Party among the youth.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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