The Gujarat High Court on issued a notice to the state government on a public interest litigation filed by a former BJP health minister over “general lack of apathy” in the management and administration of state-run hospitals at Sidhpur in Patan district.
A division bench of Chief Justice AJ Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav issued the notice, which is returnable on June 26.
The petitioner, Jay Narayan Vyas, is a former MLA from the Sidhpur Assembly constituency and served as cabinet minister of health and family welfare from 2007 and 2012 in the then-Narendra Modi government. Before the 2022 Assembly elections, Vyas quit the ruling BJP and joined the Opposition Congress.