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Rajkot city mayor, Pradeep Dav, said that his priority was to complete the Aji riverfront project which has been pending for years Rajkot: The ruling BJP appointed a lawyer having business interest in real estate Pradeep Dav as Rajkot city mayor on Friday, which was on expected lines as the post was reserved for an OBC candidate. What many senior BJP leaders found surprising was the appointment of Darshita Shah as deputy mayor and Pushkar Patel as standing committee chairman of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC), for the second time. They both held the same posts in the previous term in the civic body. ....
BJP president C R Paatil at a party meeting in Surat last month Rajkot: The announcement of names of BJP candidates for Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) elections brewed in discontentment among the party ranks in the chief minister’s hometown on Thursday. With BJP president C R Paatil adopting new criteria for ticket aspirants, many a senior leader hoping to contest the polls found themselves disqualified. However, senior corporators had already expressed their unwillingness to contest the polls this time, much ahead of the selection process. The list of candidates declared from Gandhinagar only repeated 12 out of the 40 sitting corporators of BJP from the last term. BJP heavyweights like Nitin Bhardwaj, city president Kamlesh Mirani, other sitting corporators like mayor Bina Acharya, standing committee chairman Uday Kangad and Kashyap Shukla did not get tickets. But Kashyap’s brother, Nehal Shukla, got a ticket. It was a surprise for many that Bhanu Babariya, a two ....