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The patriarch of a previous royal family, was her father India’s first environment ministerThe meeting of his cow-breeding cell was the BJP’s selection of candidates from Gujarat for the Rajya Sabha elections on 24 July. The party made the announcement on Wednesday, two days after Foreign Affairs Minister S. He submitted his candidacy for the other seat.
While Babu Desai, 66, is the former MLA from Kankrej in Banaskantha district, Kesridevsinh Jhala, 40, is Patriarch of the royal family From the former princely state of Wankanir in present-day Morbi district.
Desai is not well known outside BJP circles and heads the party’s cow-breeding cell. It was from 2007 to 2012 during the prime ministership of Narendra Modi. A leader from the Maldari community, among the primary occupations of the Ahmedabad resident are agriculture, animal husbandry, land development and building construction. The BJP said the former lawmaker had “served the community” in the face of the Covid pandemic and the Lumbe virus outbreak.
Meanwhile, Gala assumed the role of head of his former royal family in March 2022, 11 months after the death of his father, Degvaisinh, at the age of 89. And half a century before joining the Union of India.
Al-Jallas has been in politics since independence. Kesaridevsinh is the only child of Digvijaysinh who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Surendanagar in 1979 and 1984 on Congress tickets and was India’s first Environment Minister. Digvijaysinh’s younger brother Janaksinh was elected from Wankaner in 1975 while their father Pratapsinh was elected from Wankaner in 1952. Kesaridevsinh’s uncle Ajay Singh served as Minister of Railways in the government of VP Singh.
The Rajya Sabha candidate holds a degree in Tourism and Leisure Management from the University of Huddersfield in the UK and formally joined the BJP in June 2011 in the presence of Narendra Modi, then Vice President of Gujarat hosted by the descendants of the former princely states. in Saurashtra. Kisredivsinh has served as the Vice President of the BJP’s Local Unit in the undivided Rajkot district as well as the Morbi district after it was carved out from Rajkot and Lankaner in 2013.
The BJP said Kesredivsen’s name was second on the party’s shortlist for the Wankanir Assembly seat for the 2017 and 2022 assembly elections. He has been a very active leader. He has served as BJP official for Wankaner Taluka and Wankaner town units. He has been at the forefront of the BJP’s campaigns for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Morbi in recent years,” Durlabji Dithria, who served as the chief of the BJP’s Morbi district unit until his election as MLA from Tankara in Morbi last December, told The Times. Indian Express.
Hours after announcing their candidacy, Desai and Jhala filed their nomination papers in Gandhinagar. The two candidates thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other party leaders after submitting their papers. The elections, since the end of the terms of Jaishankar, Gugalji Thakur and Dinesh Annavadia, are scheduled to be held in August 2023.
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