Summary:
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday has decided not to take a call for the time being on the plea filed by Congress leader Ashwin Rathod seeking the court's direction to authorities to produce certain EVMs and all postal ballots of the controversial Dholka assembly election. Rathod has challenged the assembly poll victory of education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama from the Dholka constituency. Chudasama had won the election by a wafer-thin margin of 327 votes, that too after the returning officer Dhaval Jani mysteriously rejected 429 votes through postal ballots — a number greater than the winning margin. During the previous hearing of the case on July 30, counsel for Rathod, Percy Kavina, had argued that the postal ballots need to be reevaluated and therefore, should be called-for by the court. Nanavati argued the prayers sought by Rathod in his plea be kept pending at this stage, which has been agreed by the court..