Assaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM on Tuesday opened its account in Gujarat with seven candidates winning the seats from Jamalpur and Maktampura ward of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). AIMIM’s four candidates won from Jamalpur ward, while three won from Maktampura. The party had in all contested 21 seats from different wards of Ahmedabad. Of this, AIMIM lost...

The BJP’s thumping victory in all six municipal corporations of Gujarat where elections were held on Sunday has elated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah. The victory holds importance for the saffron party especially amid the ongoing farmers’ protest and considering the fact that Assembly elections are due in the state...

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has delivered a stellar performance winning 27 seats in the Surat Municipal Corporation election, with the Congress scoring a big zero in the diamond city. Out of the 120 seats, 93 seats have been won by the BJP, 27 seats have been bagged by AAP and Congress could...

BJP has won the Rajkot Municipal Corporation elections with better performance than last year. Here are some interesting facts about the victory… Rajkot recorded a polling of 50.75% for the 72 seats on Sunday. In all, 293 candidates were in the fray. BJP won 68 of the 72 seats. Congress got just 4 seats. Also...

The Congress on Tuesday accepted the people’s verdict in the Rajkot Municipal Corporations elections where it lost badly. Counting is underway for the 576 seats in the six municipal corporation elections that were held on Sunday. The BJP has already won four of them and is likely to emerge as the winner in the rest....

President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday arrived in Gujarat on a two-day visit to the state. He was greeted by Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel and home minister Pradipsinh Jadeja at the Ahmedabad airport. On Tuesday, President Kovind will be attending the third convocation of the Central University of Gujarat (CUG)...

The results for the civic body polls in Gujarat have so far seen the ruling BJP returning to power in three of the six municipal corporations that went to the polls. All the corporations where the BJP has returned to power are in the Saurashtra region. The Rajkot, Jamnagar, and Bhavnagar corporations have decisively gone...

Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had debuted a victory in the civic body polls after three of its candidates won from Ward no 6 in Jamnagar, believed to be a BJP bastion. Two of its candidates have also won from other seats in the municipal corporation. The victory in Ward no 6 of Jamnagar is...

The BJP has emerged as the winner in Vadodara Municipal Corporation. The saffron party has already won 45 of the 76 seats thus crossing the majority mark with ease. The counting for the remaining seats is going on and BJP is leading in many of them. Notably, the magic figure in Vadodara Municipal Corporation is...

With the BJP leading in all six municipal corporations in Gujarat and likely to win all of them, the party is gearing up for celebrating the peoples’ verdict. There are reports that the saffron party will organise an event to celebrate the victory at its Khanpur office in Ahmedabad. In the celebrations, BJP Gujarat president...

The counting of votes has started for the elections of 6 municipal corporations of Gujarat. While the BJP is moving towards a majority in the initial trends, there are reports of clashes between BJP and Congress workers at Gujarat College. Counting of votes for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is going on at Gujarat College. However, the...

The BJP has made considerable gains in the early leads in Gujarat municipal corporation elections, the counting for which is going on today. Notably, voting was completed for 576 seats across six municipal corporations on Sunday. As per trends at 12 pm, the BJP is ahead in 236 seats and the Congress in 49 seats....