Shailesh Manharbhai Parmar is an Indian politician from

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

. He won the

2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election Gujarat's twelfth legislative election was held in 2007. In this election, the BJP led by Narendra Modi won 117 seats out of 182 (ten seats fewer than in 2002). Congress improved its performance and won 59 seats (eight more than last election). ...

from the Shaher Kotda Assembly Constituency. He won

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and 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election from the Danilimda Vidhan Sabha constituency. Both these constituencies are reserved for candidates from

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. A complaint was filed stating that Parmar's caste certificate declaring him to be of a scheduled caste was fake. The plea was dismissed by local court in August 2013.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Parmar, Shailesh Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat Gujarat MLAs 2007–2012 Gujarat MLAs 2012–2017 Gujarat MLAs 2017–2022 1969 births Living people