QAhmedabad: Guj BJP Names 4 More Lok Sabha Candidates, Drops 3 MPs
With this, the Gujarat BJP has declared its candidates for 23 out of 26 seats in Gujarat.
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1. Gujarat: BJP Names Four More Lok Sabha Candidates, Drops 3 MPs
The BJP on Sunday, 31 March declared its candidates for four Lok Sabha constituencies of Chhota Udepur, Anand, Junagadh and Patan in Gujarat, dropping three sitting MPs. It has just retained Junagadh Member of Parliament Rajesh Chudasama.
Bharatsinh Dabhi, sitting MLA from Kheralu Assembly constituency, will contest from Patan, while Geeta Rathwa, a district panchayat member for the last five terms, will be the candidate from Chhota Udepur (ST). Mitesh Patel, a district-level treasurer, will fight from Anand.
With this, the party has declared its candidates for 23 out of 26 seats in Gujarat.
The party also declared its candidate for Talala Assembly constituency bypoll, which will be held on 23 April , along with the Lok Sabha elections.
(Source: Indian Express)
2. Gujarat Gets Its Largest Bank Today
The merger of three banks – Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank – will be the largest banking network in Gujarat. So far the position was maintained by the rival State Bank of India (SBI). Its total business mix of deposits and advances will also be larger than that of SBI.
These banks are being amalgamated as a part of central government's policy to consolidate Public Sector Banks (PSBs), which the government claims will optimise resources, increase efficiency and reduce Non Performing Assets (NPA).
According to the report of State Level Banker Committee (SLBC) for October-December quarter of fiscal 2018-19, SBI has the largest banking network with 1,238 branches, Rs 1.44 lakh crore worth of deposits and Rs 1.10 lakh crore worth of advances.
(Source: DNA Ahmedabad)
3. Guj-Based Bharatiya Tribal Party to Contest 20 LS Seats
The Bharatiya Tribal Party will fight from 20 Lok Sabha seats spread across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Union Territory Daman and Diu, its chief Chhotubhai Vasava said on Sunday, 31 March.
The BTP, which was founded on the eve of the 2017 Assembly polls in Gujarat, had managed to win two seats in the 182-member House.
Vasava won from Jhagadiya while his son Mahesh is the MLA from Dediapada.The BTP also won the Sagwara and Chorasi Assembly seats in the 2018 Rajasthan polls.
(Source: Business Standard)
4. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Recovers Tax Revenue of Rs 950.43 Cr
The tax department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has recovered Rs 950.43 crore till the last day of the financial year. According to a press release issued by the department, it stated that till midnight, the department is expecting to earn an additional amount of Rs 5 crore.
For the 2018-19 financial year, the civic body had estimated the revenue target of Rs 950 crore to generate from the tax, which is the main source of civic body's income. To recover the due from tax defaulters, the department has sealed more than 34,000 commercial units with the help of other departments of AMC.
To make a speedy recovery, AMC had announced to auction 21 commercial properties whose tax was due since long. The civic body had made two unsuccessful attempts to auction two properties, now AMC owns them.
(Source: DNA Ahmedabad)
5. Guj Cong Wants Ahmed Patel to Contest From Bharuch LS Seat
The Gujarat Congress unit has requested senior party leader Ahmed Patel to contest the next month's Lok Sabha poll from the state's Bharuch seat.
Patel, currently a Rajya Sabha member, won from Bharuch thrice, in 1977, 1980 and 1984, but lost to BJP's Chandubhai Deshmukh in 1991, after which he did not contest from the seat.
The BJP has never lost the seat since then. This year, the civic body has sealed many private and government premises to recover the pending dues, like BSNL, post-office and a hotel chain. When the Cambay Hotel failed to respond to the notice served to them, civic body not only sealed their premises but had disconnected their drainage and water connection too.
(Source: Business Standard)