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Khadia upset breaks BJP’s hold in ‘gadh’ that saw its rise

The Indian Express·Ritu Sharma·29 days ago
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AT Golwad Pol, a two-storeyed, plain-looking building stands with an earthen lamp and a lotus mounted on either side of its walls. This is where the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee-founded Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) took root in Gujarat in the 1970s. While the earthen lamp was the BJS’s symbol, the BJP later adopted the lotus. Turned into a library, the former Jana Sangh headquarters is now known as Vasant Smruti Vanchanalay. An undergraduate student from Lakha Patel ni Pol, Dhairya Prajapati, 18, has been preparing for the CAT (Common Admission Test) for the past two months here. He claims to have not seen many others. ‘Vasant Smruti’-the former Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) headquarter now coverted into a library in Khadia. (Express Photo) Banners hanging from electric poles not far from the building show the four newly elected Congress corporators thanking voters of the Khadia ward for the “historic victory” in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) elections.…

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