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]]>West Bengal recorded its fourth booth level officer death, since the revision began on November 4, prompting a Trinamool Congress delegation to meet the full bench of the Election Commission in Delhi and accuse the poll body chief of carrying moral responsibility for the deaths.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav also attacked the ongoing revision process, calling it a large scale conspiracy against citizens that he claimed could create a situation more oppressive than the colonial period.
The special intensive revision is currently underway in twelve states and Union territories.
In Gujarat’s Mehsana district, Dinesh Raval, a 50 year old teacher, at a government primary school in Sudasana village, passed away from a heart attack at his home between Thursday night and Friday morning according to Sadasana police sub inspector Udaysinh Zala.
Opposition leaders and teachers’ unions linked his death to heavy workload and inadequate support for booth level officers, though police denied any connection between his duties and the incident
Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi stated that booth level officers are under intense pressure to complete assigned tasks within strict deadlines, while Gujarat State Primary Teacher Association president Digvijaysinh Jadeja said he had heard from other teachers that Raval had been experiencing stress due to his BLO responsibilities.
In West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, Zakir Hossain, a teacher in a state run primary school deployed as a booth level officer, collapsed on Thursday after reporting severe chest pain and was taken to a local hospital where he died later that night according to his family.
Relatives said Hossain had been struggling to balance his booth level duties with regular teaching, and claimed that his school did not relieve him from classroom responsibilities despite multiple requests, forcing him to juggle both roles.
Leaders of the Trinamool Congress, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, have accused the Election Commission of assigning an unreasonable and poorly planned workload to booth level officers.
The Bharatiya Janata Party rejected the allegations and argued that any stress faced by booth level officers stemmed from pressure exerted by the ruling Trinamool Congress rather than the Election Commission.
A ten member TMC delegation led by Rajya Sabha MP Derek O Brien met EC officials in Delhi and raised five questions regarding the deaths and the workload, but said they received no direct answers from Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Mahua Moitra said the delegation submitted a list of forty individuals whose deaths they claim are linked to the revision process, but the Commission dismissed the list as unverified allegations.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav posted a video on social media urging opposition parties, including NDA allies, to unite and expose what he described as a large scale plan by the BJP, warning that tampering with voter rolls could eventually lead to removal of names from land records, ration cards, caste certificates, social welfare lists, and even bank accounts.
BJP spokesperson Harishchandra Srivastava rejected Yadav’s comments and accused him of attempting to create fear and confusion among citizens.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission announced that Lakshadweep has become the first Union territory to complete full distribution and digitisation of enumeration forms under the special intensive revision.
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]]>The reshuffle followed the collective resignation of 16 ministers on Thursday. Of those, 10 were accepted, while six ministers—among them Sanghavi and Pansheriya—were retained (or re‑sworn) on Friday. With the new appointees, the cabinet has grown from 17 to 26 members; the state allows up to 27 ministers. Three of the ministers are women.
Highlights of the reshuffle:
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Harsh Sanghavi, previously Home Minister, is now Deputy Chief Minister and holds important responsibilities including Home Affairs.
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Rivaba Jadeja has been inducted as a Minister of State, marking her debut in the cabinet.
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The caste and community composition of the new cabinet has been carefully balanced: including Patidars, OBCs, Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Scheduled Castes (SC) among the ministers.
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The changes are widely seen as a preparatory move ahead of the 2027 assembly elections and upcoming local body polls.
The restructuring underscores the BJP’s attempt to refresh its leadership pool, involve newer legislators and recalibrate regional and community representation in Gujarat’s governance.
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]]>Jitu Vaghani, Gujarat’s education minister, said the choice to teach the Gita is in keeping with the Union government’s New Education Policy, which encourages children to learn about historic and ancient cultures that will make them proud of India’s great history.
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Khel Mahakumbh in Gujarat started back in 2010, an initiative taken by Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat. BJP’s official Twitter handle quotes PM Modi, “Today youth of the country and Gujarat are spreading their laurels in many global sports including Youth Olympics, Commonwealth, Asian Games, emerging from Khel Mahakumbh. SImilar talents are going to emerge from the midst in this Mahakumbh.”
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]]>Congress member Harshad Ribadiya asked a simple question on the number of available vacancies at the Surendranagar animal clinics during the query period on the third day of the 14th Gujarat assembly’s cabinet meeting. When BJP agricultural minister Raghavji Patel answered the question, Vansh replied by arguing that the facts he was sharing were incorrect.
Harsh Sanghvi, the minister of state for home, rose and attempted to interfere. Naushad Solanki, a Congress MLA from Dasada, accosted him verbally. Sanghvi responded to Solanki by declaring that Congress’s intimidation methods will fail. Addressing Sanghvi, Vansh stated that this was not his party office and that being said used an unparliamentary term, which enraged the ruling party’s supporters.
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During a joint meeting in Kevadia, Gujarat, Mr. Modi addressed the officers of the CBI and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) through a video message. He urged the cops to renew their commitment to fighting corruption. He said that the government has instilled in the public faith in the government’s ability to combat corruption.
“Earlier, the way the Governments and systems were run, they lacked both political and administrative will. Today there is the political will to attack corruption and continuous improvement is also being carried out at the administrative level.”
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]]>The breakthrough came when the agency received a specific tip about a shipment declared as semi-processed Talc stones originating from Afghanistan and delivered from Bandar Abbas Port in Iran to Mundra Port by Aashi Trading Company, based in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
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]]>In a shocking twist, Mr. Rupani’s resignation was followed by that of his cabinet, leaving the ruling BJP with three options: pick a successor (and new government), allow the state to be placed under President’s Rule, or hold an Assembly election considerably earlier than planned. According to sources, no decision has been made on early elections at this time, and the party’s plan is likely to be a change of guard – a new Chief Minister.
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]]>“Along with development, Gujarat is concerned about its environment. The government is also so concerned about water. Sustainable development is only possible when a pollution-free system exists,” Rupani said while addressing the event.
Rupani said under the forest department’s social forestry programme — aimed at increasing tree-cover outside forest areas — the state government has targeted to have 50 crore trees. “In the past, there were only 25 crore trees (in 2003), that were part of forest department’s social forestry programme. Now we have increased it to 35 crore trees. There is a 15 per cent growth,” he claimed.
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]]>Rupani also performed a virtual ground-breaking ceremony for the main campus of the ‘Birsa Munda Tribal University’, which will come up near Rajpipla town in the tribal-dominated Narmada district of Gujarat. “My government has approved the setting up of five new medical colleges in tribal areas of the state.
Birsa Munda struggled for the uplift of tribals. It is a matter of great pride that a university in his name is coming up here. This university, coming up at a cost of Rs 400 crore, will help tribal youths in building their careers,” he said addressing a gathering here. Rupani was speaking while celebrating the ‘World Tribal Day’, as part of the nine-day events to mark his completion of five years as CM.
The main campus, which will come up at a cost of around Rs 400 crore on 39 acre land, will also have hostels to accommodate 500 boys and girls, a sports complex, auditorium, laboratories, research centres and staff quarters. The university would offer graduation, post-graduation and even doctoral courses in arts, commerce, science, traditional art and skill, and herbal medicine. In his address, Rupani said his government will spend Rs 1,00,000 crore under the ‘Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojna-2’ during the next five years.
The Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojna for the welfare and development of tribals was started by Narendra Modi in 2007 when he was the chief minister of Gujarat. “Our PM (Modi) had introduced the Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojna (VKY) when he was the chief minister to bring tribals into the mainstream. All the 52 tribal-dominated talukas of Gujarat were deprived of development under the previous Congress rule in Gujarat,” Rupani said.
He further said Rs 90,000 crore has been spent on various developmental works in those tribal areas under the scheme till now. The money was spent on education, health, infrastructure, agriculture and irrigation-related projects in tribal areas of the state, he said. “In the previous budget, we had announced the launch of the second edition of VKY. We have planned to spend Rs 1,00,000 crore under the VKY-2 during the next five years for the welfare of tribals in Gujarat,” said Rupani.
On the occasion, the CM virtually inaugurated tribal-centric projects worth Rs 487 crore and performed a virtual ground breaking ceremony for projects amounting to Rs 1,222 crore.
(This story has not been edited by The Edge Media staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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