Sudhir S. Raval

‘Aukat’ remarks for Modi: Why is Gujarat not enthusiastic about it?

November 28, 2022

On 12 November, a video went viral on social media wherein Congress senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Madhusudan Mistry was seen making a derogatory remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ‘Aap mujse puchhate hai to main to kahunga ki ye Narendra Modi ki aukat batayenge.’ When a journalist in...

Uniform Civil Code: A politically confused agenda

November 11, 2022

Since 1940, the Uniform Civil Code has remained quite sensitive and controversial, which we discussed yesterday in this column. Today we will try to look at the politics on UCC. It seems that there is no consensus on UCC among not only different political parties but the ruling party BJP...

Uniform Civil Code: Its need, reality and politics

November 10, 2022

The Gujarat government has recently approved the formation of a committee to implement the Uniform Civil Code, commonly known as UCC. The committee will be headed by a retired HC judge and will consist of three to four members. Earlier, the BJP governments in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh had also...

Gujarat goes for a different election

November 5, 2022

Finally, the dates for the Gujarat Assembly elections have been announced by the Election Commission of India. As expected, Gujarat assembly election results will also be announced on 8 December along with Himachal Pradesh assembly election results. Government machinery and political parties will have some restrictions on their free functioning...

Time for Gujarati voters to decide their electoral fate

October 19, 2022

The dates of Assembly elections in Gujarat are not announced yet, but the election atmosphere in Gujarat has already been ignited since last few months. The leaders of BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party have started holding meetings, yatras, door-to-door campaign, promises, slogans, hoardings, and what not. All leaders are...

Elections, emotional exploitation and emotional intelligence

October 6, 2022

It has been our history that emotions always override pragmatism in the matters of politics and elections. An Indian election is the greatest stage for political leaders of all ideologies to court their people on a variety of issues using emotional appeal and approach. Emotions have always played a vital...

Economic Revival Committee submits report to Gujarat CM

June 13, 2020

The six-member Economic Revival Committee headed by Dr Hasmukh Adhia, former Finance Secretary, submitted its report to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday. Deputy CM Nitin Patel and Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, among others, were present on the occasion. Rupani had constituted the committee to deliberate on economic revival...

Gujarat doubles its ventilator capacity to fight Covid-19

April 23, 2020

As the world is facing a ventilator shortage in fight against coronavirus, a Rajkot-based company has come out with an indigenous solution and developed cost-effective ventilators on a war-footing. This has helped Gujarat double its ventilator capacity to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “I am happy to announce that an industrialist...