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Gujarat Elections 2022: 2017 polls saw Patidars drifting away from BJP. Their voting patterns will be crucial this timeEarlier, the Patidars were a vote bank of the Congress. They shifted their allegiance to BJP in the 1990s after the Congress focused on the...- AAP, tribal protests make it harder for BJP to retain dominance in south GujaratOf the 89 seats where elections will be held in the first phase of the Gujarat polls on December 1, as many as 35 seats are spread across t...
- Gujarat's Patidar pitch heats up in the runup to electionsHardik Patel rose to prominence riding the Patidar agitation in 2015 which funnelled the anger of the community against the BJP in the 2017...
- Amit Shah in fray, BJP sees chance of winning all 26 Lok Sabha seats in GujaratGhatlodiya and Sabarmati are traditional strongholds of Patidar voters and Anandiben Patel camp in the party is known to have a strong grip...
- Gujarat Election was a fight between the people and BJP: Paresh Dhanani, Oppn Leader, Gujarat AssemblyGujarat election was a fight between the people of Gujarat and BJP, said Dhanani (41), who belongs to the Patidar community.
- Results show Patidar anger was exaggerated: Saurabh PatelPatel is an influential businessman-politician and is related to the Ambanis. He won by a margin of 906 votes from Botad, a Patel dominated...
- Saurashtra Patidars ditch BJP, but Patels in cities remain loyal to ModiAt the root of the success of the Congress formula of KHAM (Kshatriya-Harijan-Adivasi-Muslim) in 1985 was this caste conflict.
- Farmers cost BJP more than reservation-seeking PatidarsFailure of the Vijay Rupani government to honour its word on minimum support price for cotton and groundnuts may have been the reason.
- Gujarat polls: 16 seats up for grabs in Ahmedabad mega cityThe Maninagar constituency, represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi thrice from 2002 till 2014 as then MLA and Gujarat chief minister, ...
- Mehsana gives BJP the jitters, discontent even in PM's hometownMehsana and Vadnagar fall in Mehsana district, but while Vadnagar is under the Unjha constituency, Mehsana city is a separate constituency.
- Gujarat polls: Anandiben spouse Mafatlal alerted PM Modi of Patel ‘disaffection’Patel said in the letter that people of Gujarat had no ‘respect’ for the Congress but if that had not been the case, BJP would find it diff...
- Can Congress breach urban BJP stronghold of 'diamond city' Surat?Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi visited the city twice last month to understand the plight of those who were "hit by GST and note ban".
- Gujarat elections: Patidars’ e-drive questions Narendra Modi’s ‘hindutva support'Patidars, who have been the back bone of the Hindutva movement in the state, have been feeling disillusioned for a long time.
- View: Gujarat 2017 is about growing disaffection with the BJPMany expect Modi to make an emotional pitch about Gujarati pride being at stake at the final lap of the campaign. Elections in India are al...
- In Patidar stir epicentre, reservation dominates the discourseMehsana is the political laboratory of Gujarat -- leaders such as Narendra Modi and Amit Shah come from here, and this is where the Patidar...
- Patidars, Dalits see merit in each other’s agitationsDalits want their voices to be heard in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh and Punjab too. Also, Patidars are planning to rejuvenate their stir later...
- Uprisings that led to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel's downfallEven as Patidars remained adamant on a separate quota in jobs and education, the CM chose to show them the rule book.
- From Patidars to Dalits via Thakore: Agitations in Gujarat a manifestation of contradictions of BJP politicsFor all practical purposes, Gujarat has come a full circle from anti-reservation riots in the eighties to pro-reservation agitations and Da...
- Patel community resentment likely to hit BJP in civic pollsWhile the community had flexed its muscle ahead of elections in Gujarat even on earlier occasions, its anger and disillusionment is now mor...
- Patels demand for OBC quota stir turning into a mass movement in GujaratGujarat BJP president RC Faldu too had maintained that it is time that the government looks into the demands of the community.
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