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Apr 3, 2024 · In Short. For the past one week, the Saurashtra region in Gujarat has been on the boil, with the BJP witnessing massive protests by the influential Rajput community over Union Minister Parshottam Rupala's remarks on Kshatriyas. Despite multiple apologies by Rupala, the BJP's candidate from Rajkot, the protests have refused to die down.
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Dec 18, 2022 · These rivalries are likely to play out in Saurashtra, where the party bagged 46 of the 54 seats in the Saurashtra-Kutch region, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Saurashtra has witnessed the maximum number of defections, largely from the Congress to the BJP, their numbers only growing ahead of every election. This year, the BJP gave ...
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Apr 21, 2024 03:46 AM IST. Despite threats of protests from Rajputs over Parshottam Rupala's comments, the BJP remains steadfast, showing no signs of yielding to the community's demands. The ...
With election campaigning gaining momentum, and the state set to vote in a single phase on 7 May, these protests pose a new challenge for the BJP in a region seen as its ‘garh’ stronghold ...
The electoral landscape in the Saurashtra region has been marred by unrest as BJP candidates campaigning for Lok Sabha seats find themselves at odds with the Kshatriya community. The uproar stems ...
Apr 16, 2024 · The protests that started with Saurashtra have spread to every seat in the state. Leaders of the community have been leveraging social media and poster warfare to reach out to their brethren across the country to make Rupala’s alleged slight to the Rajputs a national issue.
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Dec 1, 2022 · The Congress’s Saurashtra performance in 2017 was propelled by support from the Patidar community, which had been traditional BJP supporters since the mid-1980s. But the community drifted towards the Congress five years ago following protests against the BJP-led government over demands for Other Backward Class (OBC) status.
