College students of Swaminarayan Gurukul make a formation to unfold voting consciousness forward of upcoming Gujarat Meeting elections, in Surat, November 19, 2022. (PTI)
Twenty years on, the 2002 Gujarat riots proceed to determine within the coming Meeting elections, in each the candidates and points within the fray — or of their absence.
Whereas the BJP has repeated the MLA who was a part of the committtee that really helpful the early launch of convicts within the Bilkis Bano gangrape and homicide case, the outrage exterior over it has discovered little echo on the bottom.
The BJP has additionally fielded the daughter of a convict within the Naroda Patiya bloodbath – by which over 90 have been killed on February 28, 2002 – with the social gathering’s solely chief to be tried for the violence current to witness the nomination.
Kantilal Amrutiya throughout his election campaigning in a village, in Morbi, district on Thursday. (Categorical photograph)
“That soiled water…Nonetheless I being a resident of Morbi dared to leap into it (Machchu river). There have been four-five policemen, additionally they jumped. Then got here the Muslim boys, others…When saheb (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) referred to as, I didn’t have even my cellphone with me. However just one per cent of rescue work was completed by me whereas the remaining 99 per cent was completed by 99 others and but they gave the credit score to me…Then I got here again and uploaded a video… I’ve that a lot of knowledge,” says Kantilal Amrutiya in a single breath, highlighting his position within the rescue work in Morbi’s Machchu river following the bridge collapse there on October 30 that killed 135 individuals together with 55 kids.
A photograph tweeted by the Bharat Jodo Yatra deal with of the Narmada Bachao Andolan activist with Rahul Gandhi.
Visuals of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi strolling together with his arm across the shoulders of activist Medha Patkar not too long ago, as his Bharat Jodo Yatra crosses Maharashtra, kicked off a political storm in Gujarat Friday.
With the BJP launching its mega marketing campaign deploying nationwide and state leaders throughout 89 constituencies that go to the polls on December 1, the social gathering used each probability to assault Rahul for associating with Patkar, saying that this confirmed that, like her, he was “anti-Gujarat and anti-Gujaratis”.
The BJP’s nominee Mohan Kokni and Congress’s nominee Punabhai Gamit. (Categorical pictures)
Positioned in Tapi district of south Gujarat, the Vyara constituency holds a novel place – it sends the one Christian MLA to the state Meeting, who has been successful since 2007. On this election, Vyara will see a Christian candidate fielded by the BJP, the primary time it has completed so within the state in 20 years.
The Scheduled Tribes reserved constituency has been a Congress bastion since 1998, with the social gathering fielding its long-time MLA Punabhai Gamit once more.
