‘Independent’ Jignesh Mevani gives a blow to BJP in Gujarat; wins from Vadgam

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December 18, 2017

In what can be termed as a major blow to Bharatiya Janta Party, young Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani, who had contested the Gujarat Assembly polls from Vadgam constituency as an independent candidate, has emerged victorious.

According to reports Mevani defeated BJP’s Vijay Chakravarti by a huge margin of 18,150 votes in the constituency reserved for Scheduled Caste candidate.

Congress party had backed the 36-year-old leader in Vadgam by not fielding any candidates against him. AAP and SDPI had also campaigned for Mevani.

BJP chief Amit Shah himself had led campaign against Mevani and went on to claim that the latter had received funds from Pakistan.

BJP had also widely circulated the photos of Mevani with SDPI and PFI leaders in Karnataka. According to BJP, PFI and SDPI have links with terror outfits like ISIS. However, the allegation has not been proved so far.

Mevani shot to fame after he organised agitations in the aftermath of reports of atrocities against Dalits in Una district of Gujarat. He led a long march 'Azadi Kooch' demanding land for his community.

Mevani’s political debut was no less than a blockbuster, when back in July, he vanguarded a justice-siege for Dalit youths publicly beaten for skinning a dead cow in Una, Gujarat.

In another hiccup for the Gujarat government, Mevani then organised Dalit protests against the old-age practice of disposing animal carcasses over the Una incident.

Soon after he hit the anti-BJP sentiment, political observers proclaimed him as "The face of resistance against BJP", along-with Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor.

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As stated by Hardik Patel, no doubt BJP's victory is because of EVM scam.  If it is ballot paper definitely Congress must have won.

Ahmed
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Monday, 18 Dec 2017

2018 GJ election result better than 2012,

BJP won but if you closely watch we can notice the decline of seats-17 for BJP. We hope in the coming term it will further reduce....

 

Afterall these seats of 102 BJP might have got by EVM scam Lol...

Aslam, Mangalore
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Monday, 18 Dec 2017

#4 Vignesh, Sanghis don't like the mingling of non sanghis... Any way sdpi did good job, hats up guys. its called dare, sdpi stepped in 56 chest of facist leader in his own place. we seculer parties also be tied with sdpi in karnata election

vignesh
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Monday, 18 Dec 2017

Some hidden anti nationals played here

Sooraj
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Monday, 18 Dec 2017

This is not just Mevani’s victory. A victory for entire Dalit community. Good days are ahead indeed.

santhosh
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Monday, 18 Dec 2017

I have a lot of respect for Mevani and his movement, but really, a blow?

The constituency is a Congress stronghold, and Congress did not field a candidate there.

The result was obvious.

Naren Kotian
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Monday, 18 Dec 2017

Blow to BJP just by one victory? You better call it ‘Kachaguli’ instead of blow. This report is mere bow bow bow. Adige biddru meese melu. Death to anti-nationals

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February 7,2020

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In Cubbon Park case, chargesheet against six accused which includes two team owners-- Ali and Arvind Reddy, one KSCA management committee member Shinde, two players Gautum and Kazi and one bookie Maavi are charge-sheeted.

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June 4,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 4: All shops, offices, malls, commercial establishments and others in Karnataka must not allow Covid-stamped people to enter their premises before the completion of the prescribed quarantine time, said a top official on Wednesday.

"They should not allow those with quarantine stamp to enter before the end of their quarantine period or till they get current Covid negative test report," ordered Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar.

Bhaskar has also issued the order to all religious places, hotels and others to first check for quarantine stamp on all their customers or visitors before they enter the premises.

"All shops, commercial establishments, offices, factories, malls, religious places, hotels and etc.. are required to check for quarantine stamp on all their customers or visitors before they enter the premises," he said.

In the event of a violation, Bhaskar said the police should be informed at 100.

He issued the same order to the general public and resident welfare associations asking them to be vigilant.

"General public and resident welfare associations are advised to report any violation of the quarantine in their neighbourhood to the police at telephone number 100," said the chief secretary.

The orders came under the head aRole of general public, resident welfare associations and commercial establishments''.

General public, commercial establishments and resident welfare associations have been empowered to report quarantine violations at a time when many activities are set to reopen from June 8 as part of Unlock - 1, after more than two months of lockdown.

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January 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 5: BJP leader and Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa once again blamed the Congress of creating 'confusion' among the Muslim community over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act-2019 while launching a door to door campaign to dispel such rumors.

Yediyurappa was on a door-to-door campaign to make people aware of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and to allay their fears.

"Unnecessarily, the members of Congress are creating confusion among the Muslim community. I assure you that not a single Muslim will be affected because of CAA," said B. S. Yediyurappa.

"Almost all previous Prime Ministers have supported it, now Congress is creating a problem so as to create confusion among Muslims. That's why we are out on the door-to-door campaign," he said.

The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, seeks to grant Indian citizenship to Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.

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Sunday, 5 Jan 2020

 

U may confuse people with such statements but WE MUSLIMS, DALITS and some of our other HINDU Brothers are not in any Confusion on the chronology of NPR, CAA and NCR..  WE are firm that we will never allow you to go ahead with these discriminatining laws

 People are NOT FOOLS to believe all your JUMLAS

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