Author: Anand Singh

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia destroyed or changed at least 12 mobile phones in a span of one year, said the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The financial investigation agency will lead its probe with this detail and find out whether there was a specific intention behind frequent change of […]

Once they were comrades. Today they are political rivals who belong to opposite camps of the political spectrum. Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and Patidar leader Hardik Patel, along with OBC leader Alpesh Thakore spearheaded the identity politics of Gujarat in 2017 Assembly elections. Today Mevani and Patel only speak in diametrically opposite tone and tenor. […]

The victims of 2002 Gujarat riots in Naroda Patiya have wholeheartedly rejected the candidature of daughter of riot convict Payal Kukrani. 30-year-old  anaesthetist Payal Kukarni has been given ticket from Naroda Patiya, where close to 100 people were killed in the riots. Kukrani’s father  Manoj Kukrani was one of the 32 who were convicted in […]

The former students of Alfred High School, from where Mahatma Gandhi completed his matriculation in 1887, are batting for BJP this election season. The New Indian Team spoke to staff members, former students of this living memory of Bapu’s formative years which has stood tall through many political changes in the state. Octogenarian Suresh T Sanghvi, […]

Journalist-turned-politician Isudan Gadhvi talks about his roadmap based on his boss Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi model, to steer Gujarat out of its misfortune as he easily mingles with common people in the Khambhalia Assembly segment in Devbhumi Dwarka district. With the heavy responsibility of leading the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Assembly poll debut, he says the […]

With just over a week left for the first phase of voting in Gujarat, senior Congress MLA Vikram Madam, who is facing AAP’s chief ministerial candidate Ishudan Gadhvi in Khambalia, blames the media and crunch of funds for the party’s lacklustre performance but hopes that the Grand Old Party do better in these polls. Speaking […]

Sporting a pair of blue sketchers and a heavily embellished pink sari during her campaign trail, Rivaba Jadeja, BJP’s Jamnagar North candidate exhibits the gait of an athlete. She seems in a hurry to make a difference. Her vision is to turn Jamnagar into a smart city. Just like her husband and ace Indian cricketer […]