Gujarat minister Nitin Patel's ambitions may have to take a back seat now

The Division Bench of the high court had last week described Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, the state's biggest Covid-19 facility, as being "worse than a dungeon"

Not so long ago, on 29 February, Gujarat’s Health Minister, Nitin Patel bared his heart. At the stone-laying ceremony of the Maa Umiya temple — the tallest to be built in Ahmedabad — he said: "I have reached here at this junction only because of the blessings of Maa. Otherwise, everybody knows that I am on the one side, whereas everybody else is on the other."

It took no time at all for the Congress to respond. The Congress MLA from Lathi (Amreli), Virji Thummar, while speaking on the 2020-21 Budget said: “The health minister, who is also the deputy chief