Gujarat assembly passes Bill unifying 11 university acts; Congress says it will reduce autonomyThe Gujarat assembly has passed the Gujarat Public Universities Bill, which aims to streamline the governance of 11 universities in the sta...
16 Sep, 2023, 05.54 PM IST
Gujarat government announces 27 per cent OBC reservation in local pollsThe BJP government in Gujarat has announced a 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local bodies, based on a commission's re...
30 Aug, 2023, 10.27 AM IST
Elections round the corner, but Gujarat Congress lacks a strategyWhile a section of Congress leaders has been fuelling a media speculation about poll strategist Prashant Kishore and his team being in talk...
09 Apr, 2022, 12.35 AM IST
Jagdish Thakor appointed Gujarat Congress presidentThe appointment comes ahead of next year's assembly elections in the state, where the Congress is seeking to wrest power from the BJP. "Con...
03 Dec, 2021, 01.18 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi meets party leaders from Gujarat, asks them to be prepared for assembly pollsAICC general secretary organisation KC Venugopal and AICC in-charge for Gujarat Raghu Sharma were also present during the meeting.
22 Oct, 2021, 04.18 PM IST
Without a state committee for two years Gujarat Congress awaits appointmentsThe only three state portfolio members are GPCC President Amit Chavda, Working President Hardik Patel and Leader of opposition Paresh Dhana...
24 Aug, 2021, 10.58 AM IST
Congress’s bet on Youth in Gujarat fails to make headwayThe Congress in Gujarat has long been grappling with a vacuum of leadership with both state president Amit Chavda and leader of the opposit...
26 Jul, 2021, 09.52 AM IST
Gujarat Congress still awaits key appointmentsThe party had lost its state in-charge, Rajiv Satav, to Covid in May. Prior to that, state president Amit Chavda and Leader of the Oppositi...
05 Jul, 2021, 12.00 PM IST
Congress is having a deja-vu moment post Gujarat civic pollsCongress candidates who were denied tickets start a smear campaign on the officially-nominated candidate and keep away from campaigning for...
02 Mar, 2021, 09.29 PM IST
With Ahmed Patel's death, Gujarat Congress has lost a mentor and friendThe septuagenarian leader played a powerful, pivotal , but low-profile, role in the Congress at the national level for decades. Less known,...
25 Nov, 2020, 03.58 PM IST
Will fulfill responsibility with utmost sincerity: Hardik PatelThe Congress on Saturday announced Patel's appointment as working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee. Patel, 26, rose to p...
11 Jul, 2020, 11.39 PM IST
The 3 factors fuelling defections in Gujarat CongressAnger in state unit over ‘the ways of 3 Rahul boys’, BJP’s determination to bleed Cong amid discomforting focus on Gujarat’s Covid scene an...
09 Jun, 2020, 01.59 PM IST
Alpesh Thakor quits Congress, rules out joining BJPThakor, appointed national secretary after joining the party in 2017, said that he was resigning from all the posts in the party due to ins...
10 Apr, 2019, 09.23 PM IST
Gujarat Congress to start candidate selection process for LS pollsCongress leaders also decided to invite Rahul Gandhi to launch the party campaign in Gujarat in the second week of February, said state Con...
12 Jan, 2019, 12.42 PM IST
Fund crunch in Gujarat Congress ahead of 2019The fund crunch in Gujarat, according to a senior Congress leader, had resulted in part from the generational shift in leadership in the pa...
03 Dec, 2018, 11.25 AM IST
Congress planning major public outreach, fundraiser in Gujarat from October 2Amit Chavda, Gujarat Congress president, told ET that the campaign will involve four major aspects beginning with the door-to-door outreach...
28 Sep, 2018, 11.13 AM IST
Amit Chavda is new Gujarat Congress chiefCongress had lost the 2017 Gujarat Assembly election but improved its tally to 77 from 60 in the 2012 elections.
27 Mar, 2018, 06.39 PM IST