Ghatlodiya 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 of Gujarat and BJP, said Dhanani (41), who belongs to the Patidar community.

Patel is an influential businessman-politician and is related to the Ambanis. He won by a margin of 906 votes from Botad, a Patel dominated...

At the root of the success of the Congress formula of KHAM (Kshatriya-Harijan-Adivasi-Muslim) in 1985 was this caste conflict.

Failure of the Vijay Rupani government to honour its word on minimum support price for cotton and groundnuts may have been the reason.

The Maninagar constituency, represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi thrice from 2002 till 2014 as then MLA and Gujarat chief minister, ...

Mehsana and Vadnagar fall in Mehsana district, but while Vadnagar is under the Unjha constituency, Mehsana city is a separate constituency.

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...

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".

Patidars, who have been the back bone of the Hindutva movement in the state, have been feeling disillusioned for a long time.

Many 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...

Mehsana is the political laboratory of Gujarat -- leaders such as Narendra Modi and Amit Shah come from here, and this is where the Patidar...

Dalits want their voices to be heard in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh and Punjab too. Also, Patidars are planning to rejuvenate their stir later...

Even as Patidars remained adamant on a separate quota in jobs and education, the CM chose to show them the rule book.

For all practical purposes, Gujarat has come a full circle from anti-reservation riots in the eighties to pro-reservation agitations and Da...

While the community had flexed its muscle ahead of elections in Gujarat even on earlier occasions, its anger and disillusionment is now mor...

Gujarat BJP president RC Faldu too had maintained that it is time that the government looks into the demands of the community.