Congress not to give tickets to those who lost polls twice, Gujarat Election News 2012, Gujarat News, INC Candidates Gujarat Election

19 Sep 2012: Ahmedabad: Congress on Wednesday decided not to give tickets to candidates who lost Assembly Elections twice earlier in Gujarat or those who lost the last Assembly Elections by margins of more than 15,000 votes, party sources said.

This decision was taken at a Congress screening committee meeting held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of Union Road Transport and Highways Minister C P Joshi, in which state leaders were also present.

The committee which also comprises Union Minister of State for Petroleum R P N Singh, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee president Arjun Modhvadia and leader of opposition of state Shaktisinh Gohil, has been formed by the party high command to select candidates for the Gujarat state assembly elections scheduled to be held by the year end. 
The Congress has already prepared a list of probable candidates for each of the 182 Assembly seats of the state where elections will be held for the first time after delimitation.

"The other decision taken by the committee is that a person who fought elections at panchyat or municipality level in constituencies will be given preference for tickets," party sources said. The party has also decided to give maximum tickets to youth, women, professionals and those with higher education, sources said.

Nitish Vs Narendra Modi, JD (U) to fight Gujarat elections 2012 on its own

10 Sep 2012: New Delhi: Carrying further its reservations over Narendra Modi, the JD-U, which runs a coalition with BJP in BIhar, has decided to contest assembly elections in Gujarat on its own. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose antipathy to Modi is well known, will also campaign for the JD-U candidates in Gujarat, where elections are due this year end.

Giving indications of the party's plans, JD-U President Sharad Yadav told reporters "BJP is the larger party in the NDA. We will go for alliance with BJP wherever it wants us, but barring in Gujarat".

 
He was replying to a question whether JD-U contesting elections separately in a state ruled by BJP will not give impression of a rift in the NDA.

Both party chief Sharad Yadav as well as Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will campaign in Gujrat aggravating further the strains between Kumar and Modi that have come to the fore on more than one occasion.

Yadav, however, sought to downplay the development by maintaining that the JD-U never had an alliance with the BJP in Gujarat.

He refrained from answering repeated queries on why the JD-U is making an exception of Gujarat when it is ready to contest with BJP in alliance in all other states.

 
Yadav also refused to specify how many seats his party wants to contest in Gujarat saying it is for the state unit to decide.

There is speculation that the JD(U) state unit plans to contest 100 out of the 182 assembly seats in Gujarat in the coming Assembly elections.

Yadav, however, said, "we have been fighting separately from BJP in Gujarat for a long time. We are as a part of the NDA alliance in many states, while in many others like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi, we fight separately. There was never an alliance in Gujarat."

To a specific query whether the Bihar Chief Minister will go to campaign for JD-U candidates in Gujarat this time, Yadav said that Kumar and he himself as well as a large number ministers of Bihar government had gone to campaign for the party candidates in last Gujarat assembly elections as well.

"Both of us (Sharad Yadav and Nitish Kumar) have campaigned there earlier also. We will do it this time as well," he said.

Narendra Modi starts political campaign in Gujarat, Modi starts campaigning for Gujarat Assembly Elections 2012

11 Sep 2012: New Delhi: Amid huge commandeered crowd and ferried women and children from all over the district, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi launched his own 9/11 attack on the Prime Minister and the Congress at temple town of Bahucharaji in Mehsana district.

Exactly ten years back the same Narendra Modi had whipped up a communal frenzy from this place during his Gujarat Gaurav Yatra with his controversial remark of "Hum Panch Humara Pachchis", in an oblique reference to the minority community. Ten years down the line, struck by his prime ministerial ambition, Narendra Modi tried raising the issue of corruption in coal block allocation by the Union government before the essentially rural crowd of North Gujarat with a hope of striking similar chords once again.

Narendra Modi is on a high as parched Saurashtra and Kutch saw moderate to heavy rains recently, which eased the fodder scarcity in the stronghold of his bête noire Keshubhai Patel and Gordhan Zadafiya and fuelled hopes for the farmers to raise cash crops like maize and corn after missing out on their staple groundnut and cotton sowing.

As a matter of fact Modi, who has been under pressure from the growing clout of Keshubhai Patel's Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) and mounting discontent among the farmers in Saurashtra, had failed to conceal his glee. In a recent meeting Modi had in fact said that now that the rains have arrived "the (currency) notes will rain and so will votes."

While the state government has been issuing advertisements on several "injustices meted out to Gujarat" in the local media for quite some time now, Modi too indicated that the perception will be further fanned in the state ahead of the election. Falling back on his vitriolic style, Modi 'appealed' to the people to work towards 'Congress-free Gujarat' on the lines of 'gutka-free Gujarat' to wipe out "cancer", as thousands of people were walking out of the venue site after being denied entry into the makeshift arrangement, muddied from a heavy rain last night.

Half a kilometer long line of police vehicles on a narrow murky road that led to the venue added to the plight of thousands of villagers, who were brought to attend the starting of the yatra ahead of the most crucial election in the career of Gujarat chief minister. As the people were denied entry after the makeshift venue could not hold any more people, most left frustrated without seeing the leaders.

As Modi spoke, many rolled in the slimy mud quite literally.

Modi kick starting the electioneering however targeted the Congress alleging that Congress is following the lines of its former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi and is targeting constitutional bodies like CAG. On the 2G issue, Congress leaders had adopted a similar stance towards the Supreme Court, Modi added.

Modi also took on the Congress for its poll slogan "Disha badlo dasha Badlo" (change direction change situation) and asked what disha (direction) is being talked about? That of Delhi? Asking the crowd if they want the same durdasha of Delhi, that of corruption and curfew, he said Gujarat doesn't want any of these.

Modi also reacted to the appeals of local Congress leaders to the people to oppose him during his yatra and said are the leaders so scared that they wouldn't even listen to his voice?

"Do you want Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister to face similar opposition when they come here," Modi said adding that in a democracy, everyone is entitled to place their views. He further stated that his government will extend all the support to the opposition to place their views before the people.

The first phase of the Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra traversed through Modhera, Chanasma, Dhinoj, Jotana, Kadi and ended with a public meeting at Sanand.

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Narendra Modi starts political campaign in Gujarat, Modi starts campaigning for Gujarat Assembly Elections 2012

11 Sep 2012: New Delhi: Amid huge commandeered crowd and ferried women and children from all over the district, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi launched his own 9/11 attack on the Prime Minister and the Congress at temple town of Bahucharaji in Mehsana district.

Exactly ten years back the same Narendra Modi had whipped up a communal frenzy from this place during his Gujarat Gaurav Yatra with his controversial remark of "Hum Panch Humara Pachchis", in an oblique reference to the minority community. Ten years down the line, struck by his prime ministerial ambition, Narendra Modi tried raising the issue of corruption in coal block allocation by the Union government before the essentially rural crowd of North Gujarat with a hope of striking similar chords once again.

Narendra Modi is on a high as parched Saurashtra and Kutch saw moderate to heavy rains recently, which eased the fodder scarcity in the stronghold of his bête noire Keshubhai Patel and Gordhan Zadafiya and fuelled hopes for the farmers to raise cash crops like maize and corn after missing out on their staple groundnut and cotton sowing.

As a matter of fact Modi, who has been under pressure from the growing clout of Keshubhai Patel's Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) and mounting discontent among the farmers in Saurashtra, had failed to conceal his glee. In a recent meeting Modi had in fact said that now that the rains have arrived "the (currency) notes will rain and so will votes."

While the state government has been issuing advertisements on several "injustices meted out to Gujarat" in the local media for quite some time now, Modi too indicated that the perception will be further fanned in the state ahead of the election. Falling back on his vitriolic style, Modi 'appealed' to the people to work towards 'Congress-free Gujarat' on the lines of 'gutka-free Gujarat' to wipe out "cancer", as thousands of people were walking out of the venue site after being denied entry into the makeshift arrangement, muddied from a heavy rain last night.

Half a kilometer long line of police vehicles on a narrow murky road that led to the venue added to the plight of thousands of villagers, who were brought to attend the starting of the yatra ahead of the most crucial election in the career of Gujarat chief minister. As the people were denied entry after the makeshift venue could not hold any more people, most left frustrated without seeing the leaders.

As Modi spoke, many rolled in the slimy mud quite literally.

Modi kick starting the electioneering however targeted the Congress alleging that Congress is following the lines of its former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi and is targeting constitutional bodies like CAG. On the 2G issue, Congress leaders had adopted a similar stance towards the Supreme Court, Modi added.

Modi also took on the Congress for its poll slogan "Disha badlo dasha Badlo" (change direction change situation) and asked what disha (direction) is being talked about? That of Delhi? Asking the crowd if they want the same durdasha of Delhi, that of corruption and curfew, he said Gujarat doesn't want any of these.

Modi also reacted to the appeals of local Congress leaders to the people to oppose him during his yatra and said are the leaders so scared that they wouldn't even listen to his voice?

"Do you want Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister to face similar opposition when they come here," Modi said adding that in a democracy, everyone is entitled to place their views. He further stated that his government will extend all the support to the opposition to place their views before the people.

The first phase of the Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra traversed through Modhera, Chanasma, Dhinoj, Jotana, Kadi and ended with a public meeting at Sanand.

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/gujarat-chief-minister-narendra-modi-kicks-off-poll-campaign/1/216920.html