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Those detained were Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey, Noorjahan Diwan, Tanushree, Nitesh Gangaramani, Kausar Ali, T. Gopal Krishna and Hanif Kalandar. Panchmahal district police called the detention "preventive action." ....
The Gujarat police, on Monday, foiled an attempted march by several activists who had planned to walk “in solidarity with Bilkis Bano” from Randhikpur to Ahmedabad. Bano was gangraped, and seven of her family members were killed, in 2002 in the post-Godhra riots violence. The 180-km march, planned against the Gujarat government remitting the life sentence of 11 of the convicts ....
Godhra Municipality president and independent Corporator Sanjay Soni deserted the alliance and joined the BJP Vadodara: BJP turned the tables on the alliance of AIMIM, Congress and independent corporators in the Godhra municipality on Thursday. Municipality president and independent Corporator Sanjay Soni deserted the alliance and joined the BJP. The civic polls in Godhra have been dominated by independents and the BJP has had to rely on them to form a majority despite winning a large number of seats. The Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) that had entered the poll fray for the first time, along with independents, did not allow the saffron party to come to power this time around. ....
BJP are claiming that they are sure of getting the majority Vadodara: It seems that Wednesday’s contest for the president’s post of the Godhra municipality will go down to the wire. In the past, winning independent candidates used to side with the BJP after elections. But this time around, the pre and post-poll scenario has made things difficult for such candidates, who win in most of the seats. The election of the municipality president in Godhra has always been a dramatic affair. The BJP has usually managed to reach close to the half waymark on itself, but has needed support from independents. A majority of candidates who win in the 44-member municipality are independents and most of them belong to the minority community. ....
Local leaders being inducted into AIMIM in Godhra Vadodara: Godhra, the ground zero of 2002 Gujarat riots, could also be the ground zero from where the Asaduddin Owaisi led AIMIM tastes some success in its debut in Gujarat. This seems to be a distinct possibility not only because of the high minority population in the town but also because the BJP and Congress have not been contesting on the minority-dominated wards in the municipal election there. Godhra where the 2002 Sabarmati Express carnage took place triggering riots across the state has seen an unstable and inefficient municipality. It has 11 wards that elect 44 councillors most of whom are independents. Out of the 44 seats 20 seats are in the five wards in minority-dominated areas. Since BJP and Congress did not field candidates here, all the corporators from here were elected as independents in 2015. Five members of the majority community were elected on other seats in the town taking the tall of independents to 2 ....