(1.) By this writ application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the writ applicant, a social worker and member of the District Panchayat, Patan, has prayed for the following reliefs;
(2.) The facts, giving rise to this writ application, may be summarized as under;
(3.) This litigation, on the face of it, appears to be a personal fight between the writ applicant and one Mr. Shankar Chaudhary, a sitting Minister in the State Government. It is the case of the writ applicant that Mr. Chaudhary contested the Gujarat Legislative Assembly Elections in the years 2007 and 2012. On both the occasions, Mr. Chaudhary came to be elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly.