Gujarat Elections 2012
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Keshubhai's party cost us nine seats in Gujarat, claims Congress
National | Dec 27, 2012, 04:45 PM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 27: The Congress lost nine seats in the Gujarat assembly polls December due to Keshubhai Patel's Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP), the party said on Wednesday.“We lost nine seats due to GPP,” Congress
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Shankarsinh Vaghela wins Kapadwanj seat
National | Dec 20, 2012, 05:31 PM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 20: Congress leader Shankarinsh Vaghela today won from Kapadwanj seat in Kheda district by a slender margin of 6,597 votes defeating his BJP rival Kanubhai Dabhi.Vaghela, head of Gujarat Congress campaign committee for
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Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil defeated in Gujarat
National | Dec 20, 2012, 05:31 PM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 20: Gujarat Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil, contesting from Bhavnagar rural seat, lost to his arch rival BJP's Minister of State for Fisheries Purshottam Solanki by 18,554 votes.Gohil, who led an aggressive anti-BJP
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Gujarat set for vote count, BJP confident
National | Dec 20, 2012, 06:16 AM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 19: Gujarat's ruling BJP was supremely confident ahead of Thursday's vote count following elections which exit polls say will see Chief Minister Narendra Modi get another five-year term.Gujarat recorded its highest voter turnout
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EC apologises to Gujarat HC over poll duty vehicles
National | Dec 18, 2012, 07:15 PM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 18: The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday tendered an oral apology to the Gujarat High Court on the issue of requisitioning of vehicles by it for the poll work, following which court reserved
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Voter turnout in Gujarat gives rise to pro-incumbency factor: Modi
National | Dec 18, 2012, 08:01 PM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 18: Buoyed by the impressive voter turnout in the second and final phase as well of the Assembly elections, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Monday said the impressive percentage will force political experts
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Sonia visits sample house that Congress has promised to Gujarat electorate
National | Dec 15, 2012, 12:43 PM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 15: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, on a campaign trail in Gujarat, Friday inspected a sample house of ‘Ghar nu Ghar'(own your own home), a promise the Congress has made to the people here
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Rahul, Modi continue war of words as Gujarat votes
National | Dec 13, 2012, 07:18 PM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 13: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday continued their war of words even as Gujarat voted in the first phase of the state assembly elections."Do you have
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I am not sultan, dynasty produces sultans, Modi's reply to Ahmed Patel
National | Dec 12, 2012, 12:46 PM ISTAhmedabad, Dec 10: A day after senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel dubbed him as "sultan", Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit back saying it is "dynasty that produces sultans".Patel, political secretary to Congress
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Modi will be defeated: Congress
National | Nov 03, 2012, 09:32 PM ISTAhmedabad, Nov 3: As the election campaign in Gujarat heats up, the state Congress, which has been out of power since 1995 when it lost to the BJP, is confident of ousting the three-term Narendra
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Muslim, Bihar leaders not to campaign for BJP in Gujarat
National | Oct 18, 2012, 12:04 PM ISTNew Delhi, Oct 18: BJP's prominent muslim faces as well as its leaders from Bihar will not campaign for the ruling party in poll-bound Gujarat.In its list of star campaigners for Gujarat elections provided to