Vadodara: First-time mobile deposit centres for voters’ phones, rain-proof polling arrangements and 100% live webcasting will be among the key features of the Manjalpur assembly byelection on Thursday, for which the Vadodara district administration has completed all preparations.Counting of votes will take place on Aug 3.For the first time, voters will be able to deposit…
Vadodara: More than 92% of police personnel deployed on election duty and registered as voters in Manjalpur constituency, exercised their franchise through postal ballots on Saturday. Bypoll for Manjalpur assembly seat is scheduled on July 30.A total of 152 of the 165 eligible police personnel had cast their votes at a Suvidha Centre set up…
Vadodara: Ending days of suspense, the Congress on Sunday announced senior party leader Bhikha Rabari as its candidate for the Manjalpur Assembly by-election, barely 24 hours before the deadline for filing nominations.Rabari will take on the BJP’s Satish Patel, a former chairman of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s standing committee, whose candidature had come as a…
FILE PHOTO: A view shows high-tension electricity power line pylons and power generating windmill turbines on Ahmedabad-Bhuj national highway near Surajbari village in Gujarat Gandhinagar: The state cabinet, which met on Wednesday, gave an in-principle approval for the Gujarat Wire-Free City Mission project that aims to convert all overhead power lines in 17 municipal corporations…
Vadodara: Eight-time BJP MLA and former Gujarat minister Yogesh Patel passed away in Vadodara on Tuesday following a prolonged illness. He was 79 and would have turned 80 next month.Patel, the sitting MLA from Manjalpur constituency, had been unwell for some time and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital for age-related ailments over the…
VADODARA: Former Gujarat minister and eight-time BJP MLA Yogesh Patel passed away in Vadodara on Tuesday after a prolonged illness, party leaders said. He was 79.Patel, the sitting MLA from Manjalpur in Vadodara city, had been unwell for some time and was undergoing treatment at a local hospital for the past two days due to…
