NEW DELHI: In a formal letter addressed to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on October 23, Gujarat’s Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani expressed his outrage over the “unacceptable, improper, and deplorable” conduct of Rajkumar Pandian, the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) for SC/ST in Ahmedabad. The incident stems from Mevani’s visit to Pandian’s office […]
It’s going to be curtains down on the last elections of the year on December 5. The second phase of Gujarat elections will be held for the remaining 93 Assembly seats, for which 833 candidates of nearly 60 political parties, including the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its traditional challenger Congress and the third player […]
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. […]