The legal fight between the ousted Chairman Vipul Chaudhary and the ruling Board of GCMMF came up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Tuesday with each side advocating its case animatedly.
The main contention of Mr Chaudhary was that it was his proximity with Rahul Gandhi which cost him his job. I met Rahul Gandhi and a series of events led to my final ouster, he argued in the apex court.
The next date of hearing has been fixed for November 18. Two legal luminaries represented each side- Kapil Sibal was for Vipul Chaudhary while Tushar Mehta was representing GCMMF.
Sibal argued that a Chairman cannot be evicted without sacrificing the dignity of the process while Tushar Mehta defended the decision on the strength of the cooperative principles where majoritarian point of view is the guiding principle of governance.
Chaudhary was voted out by the board through a no-confidence motion on December 12, 2013, and the Gujarat HC dismissed his plea against his ouster in February.
