Topic: Gujarat 2022

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said Saturday the BJP is a party that promotes those linked to genocide convicts in an apparent reference to BJP candidate CK Raulji, who was a part of a panel that granted remission to 11 life-term convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and a Gujarat genocide convict Manoj Kukrani who is active in BJP election campaign.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was welcomed with bulldozers and chants of “bulldozer baba” and “Jai Shree Ram” as he arrived in Gujarat’s Morbi on Saturday. He was campaigning for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly election in Morbi’s Wankaner.

Almost 10% population of Gujarat from a community remains without any ministerial representation in the government. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has been ruling Gujarat since 1998 and since then it hasn’t had a Muslim minister.

The Hindu nationalist party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the first time in 20 years has fielded a lone Christian candidate in the upcoming assembly election in Gujarat’s Vyara.

Manoj Kukrani who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the Naroda Patiya massacre case of the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide and later granted bail on health grounds, is campaigning for his daughter, Payal Kukrani, a BJP candidate, showed the photographs accessed by NDTV.

The Gujarat Assembly polls will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5, the Election Commission announced Thursday.