New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to grant any relief to Pabubha Manek, a senior Gujarat BJP leader, who was disqualified as MLA from Dwarka constituency by the Gujarat High Court last year. A bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, M.R. Shah and A.S. Bopanna dismissed the application filed by Manek in his pending petition seeking stay on the High Court order. Manek moved the apex court challenging the High Court order and sought a stay on it, as he intended to contest the Rajya ...Read More

Gandhinagar: A group of Congress leaders including State Congress chief Amit Chavda, Leader of opposition Paresh Dhanani and MLAs today called on Gujarat Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi and demanded disqualification of two MLAs Pabubha Manek and Alpesh Thakor. BJP MLA from Dwarka, Pabubha's election has been declared void by the Gujarat High Court for technical error in his nomination form. Pabubha's election was challenged by rival Congress candidate. When challenged the High Court verdic...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court today held void the election of BJP MLA Pabubha Manek from Dwarka constituency in Gujarat due to error in his nomination form. Congress candidate in the last assembly election of 2017, Meraman Goriya had filed the petition in the court saying that the name of the constituency 82- Dwarka was not mentioned in the nomination form of Manek ( who was winning the seat since 1990 and last time was his seventh consecutive victory on the seat). The court...Read More