Ahmedabad Civic Polls

The BJP was set for a huge victory in the Gujarat urban civic polls today as votes were counted for hundreds of seats across six municipal corporations, including Ahmedabad and Vadodara. The poll results are crucial for the ruling party at a time it is facing massive farmer protests since November against three central laws and anger over rising fu...

Counting of votes polled in elections to six municipal corporations of Gujarat, including major cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, will be held today with all eyes on the performance of the BJP which is in power in these civic bodies, officials said on Monday.

Elections to six municipal corporations in Gujarat were conducted in a peaceful manner amid tight security and adherence to COVID-19 norms on Sunday, in which average voter turnout of around 42 per cent was recorded, officials said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday cast his vote at a polling booth here for election to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and expressed confidence that the BJP will win the civic polls in Gujarat.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in Gujarat on Sunday to cast his vote in the municipal corporation election in Ahmedabad, the BJP said.

The AAP has fielded 154 candidates for the elections to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), which will go to polls along with five other civic bodies on February 21.

Gujarat Congress MLA Imran Khedawala on Monday tendered his resignation to state party president Amit Chavda to express displeasure over ticket allocation in award under his Assembly segment in Ahmedabad for the upcoming municipal corporation elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's niece Sonal Modi, who had sought BJP nomination to contest the Ahmedabad civic body polls, on Thursday failed to get a ticket with the party citing new rules for candidates.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's niece Sonal Modi has sought a ticket from the ruling BJP in Gujarat to fight the upcoming civic body polls in Ahmedabad city.

Boosted by the BJP victory in the civic polls in Uttar Pradesh and the upturn in the nation's economic growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today suggested a repeat in assembly polls in Gujarat where his party, the BJP, has ruled for 22 straight years. "We saw what happened there in the local elections. Congress was wiped out. UP knows the Congress...

The Gujarat Congress today alleged that over one lakh voters in Ahmedabad have failed to exercise their franchise as their names were "deleted" overnight by the State Election Commission ahead of the civic body polls.

An ordinance or executive order by the Gujarat Government, meant to delay civic body polls in the state, is unconstitutional, the Gujarat High Court has said. The decision, the court said, was illegal.

E-voting had not generated much enthusiasm among the voters. The charm for the innovative way of voting wore off further as only 124 voters tried their hands at e-voting against the registered 183 voters. Among the e-voters in the six municipal corporations that went to polls - the highest e-votes were cast in Surat where 59 voters opted for e-voti...

It might look like an unimportant development, but this is a move that reflects serious differences within members of the state's ruling party. Some civic poll candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a first ever move in the party's history, have decided to not rely on party workers for distribution of voter's slips. The same are being o...

The civic polls in Gujarat is a crisis situation for many political leaders in the state. And the most expedient thing they can do in a such a situation is to run away.The BJP and Congress officials did just that, literally!Party workers flocked to their respective party offices on Friday afternoon to express their dissent over allocation of ticket...

The BJP was set for a huge victory in the Gujarat urban civic polls today as votes were counted for hundreds of seats across six municipal corporations, including Ahmedabad and Vadodara. The poll results are crucial for the ruling party at a time it is facing massive farmer protests since November against three central laws and anger over rising fu...

Counting of votes polled in elections to six municipal corporations of Gujarat, including major cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, will be held today with all eyes on the performance of the BJP which is in power in these civic bodies, officials said on Monday.

Elections to six municipal corporations in Gujarat were conducted in a peaceful manner amid tight security and adherence to COVID-19 norms on Sunday, in which average voter turnout of around 42 per cent was recorded, officials said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday cast his vote at a polling booth here for election to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and expressed confidence that the BJP will win the civic polls in Gujarat.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in Gujarat on Sunday to cast his vote in the municipal corporation election in Ahmedabad, the BJP said.

The AAP has fielded 154 candidates for the elections to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), which will go to polls along with five other civic bodies on February 21.

Gujarat Congress MLA Imran Khedawala on Monday tendered his resignation to state party president Amit Chavda to express displeasure over ticket allocation in award under his Assembly segment in Ahmedabad for the upcoming municipal corporation elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's niece Sonal Modi, who had sought BJP nomination to contest the Ahmedabad civic body polls, on Thursday failed to get a ticket with the party citing new rules for candidates.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's niece Sonal Modi has sought a ticket from the ruling BJP in Gujarat to fight the upcoming civic body polls in Ahmedabad city.

Boosted by the BJP victory in the civic polls in Uttar Pradesh and the upturn in the nation's economic growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today suggested a repeat in assembly polls in Gujarat where his party, the BJP, has ruled for 22 straight years. "We saw what happened there in the local elections. Congress was wiped out. UP knows the Congress...

The Gujarat Congress today alleged that over one lakh voters in Ahmedabad have failed to exercise their franchise as their names were "deleted" overnight by the State Election Commission ahead of the civic body polls.

An ordinance or executive order by the Gujarat Government, meant to delay civic body polls in the state, is unconstitutional, the Gujarat High Court has said. The decision, the court said, was illegal.

E-voting had not generated much enthusiasm among the voters. The charm for the innovative way of voting wore off further as only 124 voters tried their hands at e-voting against the registered 183 voters. Among the e-voters in the six municipal corporations that went to polls - the highest e-votes were cast in Surat where 59 voters opted for e-voti...

It might look like an unimportant development, but this is a move that reflects serious differences within members of the state's ruling party. Some civic poll candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a first ever move in the party's history, have decided to not rely on party workers for distribution of voter's slips. The same are being o...

The civic polls in Gujarat is a crisis situation for many political leaders in the state. And the most expedient thing they can do in a such a situation is to run away.The BJP and Congress officials did just that, literally!Party workers flocked to their respective party offices on Friday afternoon to express their dissent over allocation of ticket...