Ahemdabad: The Gujarat High Court recently dismissed a petition requesting the Election Commission (EC) to conduct a by-election for the Visavadar assembly seat, which has been vacant since the resignation of its sitting MLA ten months ago. In its October 4 ruling, the court stated that a by-election in this constituency cannot occur due to a pending petition from a losing candidate contesting the results against the winning nominee. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal an...Read More

Ahmedabad: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Gujarat High Court requesting the court to instruct the Election Commission of India (ECI) to hold the pending by-election for the Visavadar assembly constituency. One Kailashbhai Savaliya, a member of the Jamka taluka panchayat affiliated with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has filed this plea, stating that AAP candidate Bhupendra Bhayani won the assembly election in Visavadar in December 2022 but resigned from his position in D...Read More

Ahmedabad: The city crime branch on Wednesday arrested a 42-year-old man for allegedly posting a derogatory message about the Jain community. According to crime branch officials, the complainant saw a screenshot of a post with offensive comments about the community in a WhatsApp group. The post was also shared on Facebook, attracting comments that hurt the community's sentiments, the city crime branch stated. The police had initially booked unknown individuals under the IPC and the IT Act....Read More

Visavadar: BJP leader Harshad Ribadiya is set to withdraw his petition challenging the victory of Bhupat Bhayani from the Visavadar seat in the 2022 Gujarat Assembly election. This move will pave the way for the announcement of by-elections for the seat. The Election Commission of India declared by-polls for five vacant assembly seats on Saturday, but there was no announcement regarding the sixth vacant seat of Visavadar. The reason for this was the pending court case filed by BJP's Harshad R...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat forest department has sent a letter to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, urging them to refrain from commencing the Junagadh-Visavadar gauge conversion project without obtaining approvals from the State Board for Wildlife (SBWL) and the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL). The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MOEFCC) of the state has conveyed that the project requires wildlife clearances due to its location within the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of the Girnar ...Read More

Junagadh: Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), a subsidiary of Indian Railways, had released a tender for the conversion of a metre-gauge line between Junagadh and Visavadar in July. This proposal, which extends from Junagadh to Toraniya, Bilkha, and Visavadar, has raised alarms due to its proximity to the Girnar sanctuary and its passage through an eco-sensitive zone adjacent to the sanctuary, known for its considerable lion population. The forest authorities have raised objections, highlighting t...Read More

Junagadh: A teenage boy was attacked and injured by a lion while grazing his cattle in Visavadar Taluka. However, when the boy was attacked by the lion, his buffaloes came to his rescue, chasing away the lion and protecting him from further harm. According to the incident, Vikram Chawda, a 15-year-old son of Jetabhai Karabhai, was out grazing his cattle next to Kundiwala village at around 11 am on Friday. While grazing, one of his buffaloes gave birth to a calf. Vikram placed the calf on his ...Read More

Surat: A video featuring Bhupat Bhayani, an Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Visavadar, has gone viral. The footage was captured by a CCTV camera at a hotel here in Kadodara shows the MLA allegedly accompanying a married woman to a hotel room in Kadodara. The emergence of this viral video has stirred controversy, primarily due to the fact that the woman in the video is married. Bhupat Bhayani, the Aam Aadmi Party MLA, can be clearly seen standing alongside her in the CCTV footage, indicating a close ...Read More

Gandhinagar: Former Congress MLA from Visavadar of Junagadh district Harshad Ribadiya joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with his 200 supporters today at Kamalam office in Gandhinagar. He tendered his resignation as MLA to Speaker of the Assembly Nimaben Acharya at her residence on Tuesday evening, as per a release from the state government. The congress president of Junagadh district and Bhensan Taluka also joined BJP at Kamalam. Harshad Ribadiya became president of the youth congres...Read More

Junagadh: The railway has changed the class of Satadhar railway station near Visavadar from B-class to D-class, due to which no employee of the railway department will be deployed there. The railway station of the well-known religious site Satadhar is located near Visavadar between Junagadh and Sasan. The railway administration has changed the class of the railway station from B-class to D-class considering the income of the station. Due to the change of class, no railway employee will be th...Read More