Visavadar / Kadi : Counting of votes for the by-elections of two vacant Assembly seats, Visavadar and Kadi in Gujarat has began this morning. The picture of who is going to win will be clear by around noon. Update at 1 pm: BJP retains Kadi seat with Rajendra Chavda winning by a margin of over 38,000 votes, while AAP's Gopal Italia has secured victory for the party in Visavadar with a lead of over 17,000 votes at the end of all 21 rounds of counting. Update at 11:40 am: BJP leads by a margin of...Read More

Gandhinagar: The ongoing campaign for the Visavdar and Kadi assembly seats by-polls ended today (17 June) at 6 pm. Polling on these two seats will take place on June 19th. In the 48-hour period starting from 6 pm today (17th of June), candidates can pay door-to-door visits in a maximum number of five persons. They can wear caps with election symbol over it, but can't roam around with banners. Those from outside the assembly seat area and not registered voter will need to leave the assembly seat ...Read More

Gandhinagar: The gram panchayat elections under the assembly seats areas of Kadi and Visavdar are postponed. The talukas where gram panchayat elections are postponed include Kadi, Jotana, Visavdar, Bhesan, Junagadh (rural) and Bagasara. The gram panchayat elections in these talukas are postponed because they fall under Kadi and Visavdar assembly seats where assembly by-polls are scheduled and the staff is occupied in related process. These details were shared by the State Election Commission tod...Read More

Gandhinagar: Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fielded its former Gujarat unit chief Gopal Italia as candidate for upcoming Visavdar assembly by-election. Party's national general secretary (Organization) Sandeep Pathak made this announcement. Visavdar seat is vacant due to resignation of then sitting AAP MLA who later joined ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The by-election for any vacant seat has to be held within six months, but Visavdar seat couldn't see by-poll due to an ...Read More

Junagadh, Gujarat: The Gujarat Forest Department successfully captured a lioness in the outer areas of Baradiya village in Visavdar taluka after it was involved in a fatal attack on an 18-year-old girl. The incident occurred on the night of December 22, when the victim Rahli Avasiya, a migrant from Madhya Pradesh, was passing through a farm in the village. Rahli was on her way to hand over a torch to her father, who works as a laborer on the farm. Tragically, as she made her way through the f...Read More