December 23, 2024 1:28 am
The former CM said this while addressing the gathering during the inauguration of Praja Shakti Democratic Party’s state office in Gandhinagar’s Adalaj.
September 16, 2022 3:34 pm
Sources say Vaghela, also a former Union minister, is keen to join the non-NDA, non-UPA alliance the Telangana Chief Minister is trying to forge.
December 27, 2020 3:21 am
Vaghela and his supporters had planned to march from the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad to Raj Ghat in New Delhi to extend support to the farmers who are protesting at the border of the national capital against three contentious farm laws
January 30, 2019 3:43 am
Vaghela was ousted by the Congress in 2017 on allegations of him engineering a possible defeat for Ahmad Patel during Rajya Sabha election with hopes of benefitting the BJP.
January 30, 2019 9:47 am
The Congress-NCP alliance thrived in Gujarat while he held high posts in the Congress. But the Congress began to lose ground with the rise of Narendra Modi -- and in 2014, it could not win even a single seat in Lok Sabha.
September 23, 2017 8:41 am
Shankarsinh Vaghela said the “greed” in political parties of India and the “exploitation” that party workers go through prompted him to form his own front.
August 17, 2017 5:38 am
Commenting on Vaghela’s resignation from the Assembly, state Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki said, “We won the Rajya Sabha seat despite Vaghela’s strong opposition, indicating his leaving the party had no impact. ”
July 27, 2017 5:08 am
Former Gujarat CM Shankersinh Vaghela, who recently quit Congress, Wednesday took objection to the remarks of Gujarat Congress affairs in-charge Ashok Gehlot that he acted under BJP pressure and was probably blackmailed using a CBI case against him.
July 26, 2017 6:15 pm
The 77-year-old leader, however, claimed that Gehlot had made "irresponsible and personal allegations" against him, "without any shade of truth". "He (Gehlot) had alleged that I quit the Congress as I was being blackmailed with the threat of CBI and ED (probes)
July 23, 2017 5:11 pm
The BJP in Gujarat lacks a leader with mass connect, after Modi and BJP president Amit Shah left the state to helm the party's national leadership. The Congress, too, does not have any leader with mass appeal after Vaghela's exit, an observer said.