The BJP is faced with the crucial question of who will lead the party in the four impending state polls this year: In Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.
Prashant Kishor expressed the view that the recent 'chintan shivir' could not achieve "anything meaningful".
Sisodia's arrest, one of the high-profile actions against an opposition leader, came after that of Satyendar Jain, Delhi's then health minister, in June last year.
'Crores of rupees have been spent on paper but nothing has actually happened on the ground.'
A court in Surat in Gujarat on Thursday sentenced Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to two years in jail in a 2019 criminal defamation case filed against him over his "Modi surname" remarks.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP chief J P Nadda and new party entrant Ashok Chavan and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan were among the 41 candidates elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha on Tuesday while Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh will witness polling on February 27.
'My mother feels it will be tough and emotional for her to enter an assembly which has essentially been reduced to a municipality now.' 'My opinion is that even if it is a municipality one cannot cede that space to the BJP.'
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and chief ministers of some BJP-ruled states were among those present at the Raj Bhavan ceremony.
Addressing AAP's first rally in the state, Kejriwal said BJP and Congress were like "husband and wife" and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Ahmed Patel work "in unison".
Patel has never held a ministerial post, just like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was never a minister when he became Gujarat CM 20 years ago.
If Meena resigns, it is likely to put pressure on other ministers whose areas also saw poor performance in the general elections.
About 1.81 crore electors from Saurashtra, South Gujarat and four talukas -- Sanand, Viramgam, Dholka and Dhandhuka -- in western part of Ahmedabad will exercise their franchise in the first phase of voting on December 13.
The voting for the second and final phase of Gujarat assembly elections is underway for 93 seats of North and Central Gujarat.
THE BJP sought an apology from him for "defaming" Gujarat and for promoting alcohol consumption.
Gandhi refused to comment on the tragedy in Morbi where a bridge collapsed leaving more than 130 dead.
The Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Bill, 2015, which has been hanging fire since Narendra Modi, as Gujarat chief minister first introduced it in 2003, was returned by the president to the home ministry.
"The polling was peaceful and orderly and no major incident was reported," Deputy Election Commissioner Jaiprakash told reporters in Delhi.
'I don't think the Bharatiya Janata Party can claim any USP which was it is a party with a difference.'
He defeated sitting Congress MLA Kanti Sodha Parmar in Anand, the home of world famous Amul dairy brand.
Ajmal in an interview to a media house on Friday had commented on women and Hindu men as well as Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, purportedly as a rejoinder to his remarks on 'love jihad'.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be in Gujarat's Surat city on Monday to file an appeal before a sessions court against his conviction in a criminal defamation case, his lawyer said on Sunday.
'The 2024 general elections proved that UP is not Gujarat.'
'Minus Modi, the BJP will get only 50 seats.' 'He is planning 25 big meetings in Gujarat and that will make a difference.'
Veteran actor Paresh Rawal on Friday apologised for his statement linking gas cylinders, Bengalis and fish during a campaign speech in Gujarat, saying his reference was to illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas.
The party's CM choice came as a surprise for many as the low-profile, first-time legislator was not seen to be among the top contenders for the post.
If Kejriwal is arrested, it will take very little for Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena to summon a meeting of the assembly, direct it to elect a new leader of the House, and, if it doesn't, dissolve it and impose President's Rule, predicts Aditi Phadnis.
Some BJP workers in the area have expressed unhappiness over her candidature.
Mayawati led Bahujan Samaj Party will contest on all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, party's state general secretary, Nalin Bhatt said in Vadodara on Tuesday.
Eleven persons from Muslim community killed in violence in Naroda Gam area of Ahmedabad during the bandh call given by right-wing organisations a day after the Godhra train burning incident.
The Congress on Friday promised that if the party is voted to power in Gujarat, where assembly elections are due by the yearend, it would waive farm loans of up to Rs 3 lakh and provide free electricity for 10 hours daily to farmers in the state.
Patel also said that although he had taken up the issue of his harassment with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi many times, no action has been taken to address his grievances.
The scheme will cost the state exchequer altogether Rs 1,650 crore.
But partymen should not be overconfident and must work towards the BJPs success in the coming assembly polls, party spokesman V K Malhotra quoted Vajpayee as saying.
The term of the Gujarat assembly ends on January 8 next year, and the state is expected to go to polls this December. Besides, elections are also due in Himachal Pradesh alongside Gujarat.
Though the election officials were yet to make formal announcement, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani informed the media about the victory.
Even as Gujarat polls are underway, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated a two-day meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in New Delhi to review the party's preparations and chalk out strategy for the next round of elections in states and the all-important Lok Sabha contest in 2024.
Modi also said the way the Indian elections are being conducted could be a learning process for other democracies.
'... dividing society not just on religious lines, but also creating rift in families and among brothers and sisters.'
'...We should first look at and acknowledge what we have done to ourselves.' 'To not do so opens us to the accusation of rank hypocrisy and also reduces the stature of our globetrotting peaceniks,' asserts Aakar Patel.
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