Gandhinagar: Reiterating his demand to expel party members allegedly aligned with the BJP, Gujarat Congress working president and Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani on Sunday took aim at his party’s leadership. “Remove those who are not truly with the party. Why tolerate such disgrace? Expel them so the party is cleansed, and we can rebuild it together—especially in Visavadar and Kadi,” Mevani said. Earlier, just days ago, Mevani had said in a social media post,"Now even the leaders of other pa...Read More

Gandhinagar: Members of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Class (OBC) marched in rallies holding placards and submitted memorandums to local government officers in Mahisagar district of Central Gujarat against the "divisive activities" of Congress party's Vadgam MLA, Jignesh Mevani. The rally was organized under the banner of Mahisagar Dalit Samaj. "Jignesh Mevani in Mahisagar is engaged in divisive and controversial activities, which we strongly oppose. His video...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Cyber Crime Branch of Ahmedabad Police has detained two individuals for posting a doctored video clip of Home Minister Amit Shah on the social media platform Facebook. Cyber Crime DCP Dr. Lavina Sinha, while providing details of the case, stated that two people have been detained for posting a doctored video of HM Shah on the social media platform Facebook. The arrested individuals are Satish Vansola from Palanpur and Rahul Bhai Bariya from Limakheda, Dahod. Both of them are af...Read More

Vadgam: Vankar community has presented a memorandum to the district collector's office in Palanpur alleging the insult of a Schedule Caste official by Vadgam congress MLA Jignesh Mevani. Vadgam congress MLA Jignesh Mevani had allegedly told the Banaskantha district's  Resident Additional Collector that the Collector is supposed to seat only after he (as MLA) seats whenever he visits hee chamber. Mevani had allegedly told the Additional Collector that she is supposed to receive him wheneve...Read More

Ahmedabad: A metro court in Ahmedabad has sentenced Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and 18 others to six months jail in a case of protests in 2016 to rename Gujarat University’s Law Bhavan building after Dr BR Ambedkar. The case was registered for holding a protest at Gujarat University in 2016 for naming a law dept's building after Dr B R Ambedkar. The court has declared Mevani as a convict in this case and sentenced him with 6 month in jail along with fine. A magisterial court in Mehsan...Read More

Mehsana: Independent MLA –turned Congressman Jignesh Mevani and nine others have been granted bail by a Mehsana sessions court on the condition that they will not leave Gujarat without prior permission of the court. Ten accused including Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani were sentenced to 3 months in prison by a Mehsana special court in a case of holding a rally without permission. An appeal challenging the verdict of the Mehsana special court was filed in the Mehsana sessions court. While granting...Read More

Mehsana: A magisterial court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate J A Parmar here today convicted independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and 9 others and sentenced them to 3 months' imprisonment in a 5-year-old case of unlawful assembly under section 143 of IPC. The court also ordered a fine of Rs 1,000 each for all 10 convicts. All convicts have received one month bail and they can appeal in the Sessions court in next one month. The Mehsana 'A' division police had booked Mevani and 11 others for...Read More

Gandhinagar: A Kokrajhar court has granted bail to independent legislator Jignesh Mevani. Shortly after receiving bail, Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani was, on Monday, 25 April, rearrested in connection with another case by Barpeta Police, reported ANI, citing his lawyer Angshuman Bora. Mevani was granted bail by First Class Judicial Magistrate Bhavna Kakoty with several conditions, however,  within minutes he was rearrested by police from neighbouring Barpeta district in Assam in another cas...Read More

Gandhinagar: Vadgam MLA and Congress leader Jignesh Mevani was taken into custody of Assam police late on Wednesday night from Palanpur circuit house in Banaskantha district of North Gujarat over a tweet claiming that gaddar RSS people of Nagpur were dancing over a mosque in Veraval taluka. Mevani in other tweet had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi as one who worships and considers Godse (Mahatma Gandhi's killer) as his God. Both controversial tweets of Mevani are "withheld" by Twitter in Ind...Read More