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Hardik Patel, who rattled the BJP government with the Patidar quota agitation in 2015, feels the Congress is not using him enough. Its leaders "might be wanting to pull me down", he says.

In an interview to The Indian Express, the working president of the state Congress says Thursday the Congress’s state leadership had not organised a single public meeting of his ahead of the municipal corporations, municipality, district panchayat or taluka panchayat elections.

It came over two months after he put out a video threatening to resign over alleged harassment by local administration officials of the UT.

Gujarat municipal election results: AAP trumps Congress in Surat; in Ahmedabad, AIMIM wrests Cong seats

"Mumbai and Delhi institutions form a major chunk of investors in the Lucknow Municipal bonds that were launched in Mumbai on Wednesday", Keshav Varma, a former Gujarat bureaucrat, now advisor to the Yogi Adityanath government on its urban agenda, told The Indian Express.

Keshubhai Patel passed away in Ahmedabad at the age of 93 years on Thursday.

In an exclusive interview to The Indian Express, Zadafia spoke about the threats and the faith he has in the BJP and its leadership.

Chandrakant Raghunath Paatil is the first “non-Gujarati” to lead the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state, an appointment that came as a surprise to many within the party as well.

"Gujarat has lowest unemployment rate in the country. There are two ways to look at unemployment — one where a person does not get job at all and second is when a person does not get job as per his qualification," says CR Paatil.

The family from Palitana town in Gujarat has built numerous grand temples around the country and elsewhere, including the grand Somnath Temple that was opened in 1951, the Akshardham temples, and the Krishna Janmasthan in Mathura.

The Ram temple has been on Chandrakant Sompura’s drawing board for close to 30 years. As the plan begins to take shape, with a bhoomi pujan planned for Aug 5, The Sunday Express meets the Ahmedabad-based architect.

In a conversation with The Indian Express, Piruz Khambatta, chairman and managing director, Rasna, suggests that the government should have given the industry a paycheque protection programme.

My government has been successful in providing wages of more than Rs 1,000 crore to labourers (including migrants) and ensuring they are not fired.

Earlier, on March 29, migrants employed in the powerloom, dyeing and printing units of Surat had clashed with police when it tried to stop them from setting out on foot for home states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Chhattisgarh, as the lockdown was in place.

The Congress is counting on support from the NCP, although its lone MLA Kandhal Jadeja had voted for the BJP in the 2019 bypoll, Independent candidate Jignesh Mevan or Bharatiya Tribal Party’s Chhotu Vasava and son Mahesh Vasava.

The “1,25,000 beating hearts”, as Trump addressed the crowd, comprised top officials in the Central and state government, business leaders, NRIs, students, and people from 13 districts of Gujarat and some from outside the state.

Donald Trump Speech Today at Motera Stadium HIGHLIGHTS: US President Donald Trump said on Modi. Trump, who was addressing over one lakh people at Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad, also said that "India is the country that has always been admired and where millions of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, and Christians worship side by side".

Donald Trump India Visit, Namaste Trump Event 2020 highlights: After a quick handshake and a hug, PM Narendra Modi introduced the Trumps to the welcoming party at the airport. A tri-services guard was also present at the airport to honour the US President.

In 1974, a student agitation from an engineering college here on mess bill led to overthrow of the state government. 46 yrs later, Morbi’s LEC is untouched by CAA, even as its hostels remain stuck in time

The Commission cites instances where people, who were trying to go about their normal lives “inspite of the bandh” (a phrase that repeats in the report a couple of times), were attacked.

Estimated to cost Rs 50 crore to Rs 60 crore, the temple will be built with pink sandstone, to be mined and brought from Bansi Paharpur, Rajasthan.

The architect of India's space programme founded 38 institutions, many of which continue to be a critical part of the country's missions.

Amit Shah is the third person after Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari to bring his political experience of having served as BJP president into the government.

“We must do something. See, how prices of groundnut, cotton, and onion we produce have gone down,” a 45-year-old sharecropper says, adding that the market price of onions, “around Rs 250 per quintal may not even cover my transportation expense”.