 "Bangdi Bazaar, known for shimmery bangles of all kinds, leads up to other shopping destinations, for clothes, food, utensils and more")
Bangdi Bazaar, recognized for shimmery bangles of all types, leads as much as different procuring locations, for garments, meals, utensils and extra
Afternoons are for siesta within the princely city of Rajkot and customers are nearly trickling in earlier than sunset on the fashionable Bangdi Bazaar, recognized for shimmery bangles of all types. This synthetic jewelry bazaar leads as much as different procuring locations, for garments, meals, utensils, and extra. Marriage ceremony season, principally October-January, is when shopkeepers are the busiest on the lanes right here.
Barely five-minute stroll from the Gandhi Museum, which was Alfred Faculty when Mahatma Gandhi had studied there for just a few years, {the marketplace} doesn’t replicate the Rajput-Kayasth unrest reportedly brewing within the Saurashtra area, particularly within the Rajkot constituency. Not on the face of it, at the very least.
“All the things is okay right here. That is one of the best state, not like others…,’’ he says, opening up the packing containers of bangles in an effort to promote.
The person in query, the 69-year-old Union minister of animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries, Parshottam Rupala, talks to Enterprise Customary about how the Opposition has used his remark to take advantage of the chance. Rupala, the BJP candidate from Rajkot, had opened a Pandora’s field just lately by saying that erstwhile maharajas had succumbed to the persecutions of overseas rulers, together with the British.
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Mukul Wasnik, Congress normal secretary answerable for Gujarat, who’s shuttling between cities forward of the elections, instructed this newspaper that his occasion is positioned fairly nicely. He factors out that the anticipated Congress tally is at the very least 10 seats in Gujarat. “Earlier the BJP marketing campaign was speaking a few win with a large margin within the state. Now such discuss has evaporated…,’’ Wasnik says.
Wasnik’s colleague Shaktisinh Gohil, president of the Congress in Gujarat, is optimistic. “We have now obtained an excellent response within the state. Sadly in 2014 and 2019, we didn’t get a single seat in Gujarat. However this time might be completely different… There have been a sequence of errors and failures by the BJP….’’ He provides that the Congress would ship on its manifesto guarantees.
There are about 150,000 Rajput voters out of a complete of two.3 million in Rajkot. Other than Rajputs, Patidars, too, may have a job to play when Gujarat goes to polls on Might 7. Each BJP and Congress candidates (Rupala and Pareshbhai Dhanani) belong to the Patidar neighborhood from the Amreli district, thereby triggering a battle. Dhanani, 47, who comes from the Leuva Patidar neighborhood, which is believed to have a stronger foothold within the Saurashtra area, had received Meeting seats in 2012 and 2017 however misplaced to the BJP in 2022. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Dhanani had misplaced to the BJP candidate from Amreli.
The Rajkot contest is among the many most watched in Gujarat due to many causes. The BJP has received from right here constantly since 1989 with the one exception of 2009. Additionally, the occasion dropped its two-time MP Mohan Kundariya this time and nominated Rupala. Greater than the rest, there’s a reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi right here. Round 22 years in the past, Modi stepped into the Gujarat Legislature as an MLA for the primary time and received a by-election from the Rajkot II constituency.
First Printed: Might 04 2024 | 12:27 AM IST
