To seek votes from farmers in Saurashtra, the BJP is banking on the Rs 6,000 annual income scheme for farmers.

The seat had recently fallen vacant after the incumbent Congress MLA Kunvarji Bavalia jumped ship to become a cabinet minister in Vijay Rup...

The Mandsaur agitation brought into focus the agriculture distress in the state which will go to polls next year.

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.

For the first time, Patidar voters are split between the Congress and the BJP. Hardik Patel enjoys the support of a lot of young Patels, an...

Dhoraji has traditionally been a stronghold of Congress. Veteran Patel community leader Vitthal Radadiya was elected from the seat for five...

According to data from a political activist, 33% of voters here are Leuva Patidars. Including Kadvas, Patidars make up a whopping 38% of th...

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...

At Dhrol, Gandhi donned the Patidar cap with slogan “Jai Sardar Jai Patidar” written on it, at Tankara, he invoked the Amul model of cooper...

He also demanded that the state government should restart procurement of opium poppy husk (which is cultivated in the area) or the farmers ...

A group of 62 farmers' unions had earlier announced that traffic will be blocked for three hours on all national highways across the countr...

Some eyewitnesses alleged that the victims suffered bullet wounds, but Mandsaur district authorities denied that police fired on protesters...

Gujarat Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki has announced that the party will waive off the loans of the farmers if elected to power.

"As far as curbing black money is concerned, it is a right decision but it is not a surgical strike against the wealth amassed illegally."

He said that 5133 quintals of white poppy seeds had been brought for sale in the Neemuch Mandi in 2011-12 and this quantity had risen to 16...