Politics

47-year-old Jijubhai Ishwarbhai Patel has been voting for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for more than two decades, but he will choose Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in this Assembly election. Standing outside the office of a shipping company at the Hazira Port in Surat, Patel, a 5-feet tall man in a sky blue-coloured T-shirt […]

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 […]

Contrary to the widely-peddled narrative that Gujarati Muslims live in “fear”, auto-rickshaw driver Barkat Bhai of Mehsana, the home turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, favours the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over other parties in the ensuing Assembly elections. Donning a pink shirt and a pair of black pants, Barkat Bhai, in his 50s, is […]

Ashok Parmar aka Moochi, the cobbler who became the poster boy of Hindus attacking Muslims during the Gujarat riots in 2002, is not happy with the 27-year-long rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and sees a ray of hope in the new entrant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). However, he has a piece of advice […]

In the home state of ‘chaiwala’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there are several politicians with a humble beginning of selling tea. Now we have a reriwalaa (street vendor) trying his luck from the Dariyapur Assembly segment in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Taj Qureshi is a candidate of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), one of the three Muslim […]