Bhavnagar is a city and the headquarters of Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was founded in 1723 by Bhavsinhji Gohil. It was the capital of Bhavnagar State,which was a princely state before it was merged into the Indian Union in February 1948.
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is the presidium or the central decision-making assembly of the Indian National Congress. It is composed of members elected from state-level Pradesh Congress Committees and can have as many as a thousand members. It is the AICC that elects members of the Congress Working Committee and the Congress President,who is also the head of the AICC.
Digvijaya Singh is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 2014. He is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and Ex-General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee. Previously,he had served as the 14th and 15th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh,a central Indian state,in two terms from 1993 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet between 1980 and 1984. In 2019 Indian general election he was defeated by Pragya Singh Thakur for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat.
The Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee(GPCC) is the state unit of the Indian National Congress in Gujarat. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state,as well as selecting candidates for local,state,and national elections. Shaktisinh Gohil is the president of the Committee. It has 1,862 seats in various urban and rural local bodies in Gujarat. Its office is located at Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan,Ahmedabad. It is the single major opposition party against the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat. It has participated in every Gujarat Legislative Assembly election since 1962,the first election in the independent state.
Subburaman Thirunavukkarasar is an Indian politician. He was the State President of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee till 2 February 2019 and former secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) of the Indian National Congress (INC) party. His introduction to politics in 1977 was facilitated by former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,M. G. Ramachandran. Ramachandran founded the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in 1972 and was facing his first elections for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election in 1977. He identified Thirunavukkarasar,a lawyer by profession,to contest the Aranthangi assembly constituency. Thirunavukkarasar won the seat,aged 27,and was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. He continued in that capacity till 1980. Subsequently,he served as Tamil Nadu state minister from 1980 to 1987 in the MGR cabinet,holding portfolios that included Industries,Housing Board,Excise and Handlooms. Later,he became a member of the Lok Sabha –the lower house of the Parliament of India –when he won the erstwhile Pudukottai Lok Sabha constituency. He served as Union Minister of state for shipping and later for telecommunications and information technology.
Bhavnagar State was a princely state with 13 Gun Salutes during the British Raj. It was part of Kathiawar Agency in Saurashtra. The hereditary Kotwals of the royal palace of Bhavnagar were Talpada Kolis of Radhavanaj village of Kheda district.
Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala is an Indian politician and Minister of Fisheries,Animal Husbandry and Dairying in the Second Modi ministry. He was elected to 18th Lok Sabha from Rajkot. He was a member of Rajya Sabha,representing the Indian state of Gujarat and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a former member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Amreli and formerly served as a minister in Government of Gujarat.
The Gujarat Legislative Assembly or Gujarat Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Gujarat,in the state capital Gandhinagar. Presently,182 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from single-member constituencies (seats). It has a term of 5 years unless it is dissolved sooner. 13 constituencies are reserved for scheduled castes and 27 constituencies for scheduled tribes. From its majority party group or by way of a grand coalition cabinet of its prominent members,the state's Executive namely the Government of Gujarat is formed.
Chaudhary Birender Singh Sheokand is a senior Indian political leader and a well-known face in Indian Politics. He lately served as Minister of Rural Development,Panchayati Raj,Sanitation &Drinking Water from 2014 to 2016 and later as the Union Minister of Steel from 2016 to 2019 in the Narendra Modi led NDA Government in India.
Dinesh Gundu Rao is an Indian politician of Indian National Congress from Karnataka. He is serving as the Minister for Health and Family Welfare in the Government of Karnataka. He is also the Incharge of All India Congress Committee of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. He was the President of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee and the member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Ajoy Kumar a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer,was served in the 15th Lok Sabha as an MP for Jamshedpur. He is the AICC In-charge of 3 states namely Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee,Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee,Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee and Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee. He is a member of the CWC. He is also the National Spokesperson of Indian National Congress. He was also the Former President of Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee.
Arjun Modhwadia is a former Indian National Congress politician from Porbandar Gujarat,India. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2007. He had been a president of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC),the Gujarat wing of Indian National Congress from 2 March 2011 to 20 December 2012.
Parshottambhai Odhavjibhai Solanki is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician. He is member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly since 1998 representing Bhavnagar Rural constituency. He has served as the Minister of Fishery in the Government of Gujarat. He is alleged to have caused loss of ₹400 crore to the government of Gujarat by granting contracts improperly.
The 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Gujarat in December 2012 for all 182 members of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP),in power since 2002,was running for his fourth term. The leader of the opposition was Shaktisinh Gohil of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Gadhada is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Botad district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes.
Mohammed Ali Shabbir is an Indian politician who had served as the Opposition Leader of Telangana Legislative Council from 4 April 2015 to 22 December 2018.
Jitendrabhai Savjibhai Vaghani is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of legislative assembly representing Bhavnagar West in Gujarat Legislative Assembly. He was appointed an education minister when Bhupendra Patel became Chief Minister in September 2021.
Limda or Hanubha na Limda,literally Hanubha's Limda,is a former Rajput talukdari in Gohilwar prant of Saurashtra peninsula in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was held by the Gohil Rajputs clan. Its pre-Independence ruler held the title of Darbar Saheb.
The Gohil dynasty or Gohil or Guhilas of Saurashtra ruled parts of Saurashtra region of present-day Gujarat state of India as subordinates or independents starting 12th century. Their origin is traced to Guhila dynasty of Gujarat and they had migrated to Saurashtra in 12th century. The earliest known inscription of Gohils is found from Mangrol. They later moved to the east coast where they established themselves and the region came to be known as Gohilwar and ruled till the independence of India in 1947. The erstwhile princely states of Bhavnagar,Palitana,Lathi,Vala and Rajpipla belonged to Gohil rulers.
Chhabilbhai Naranbhai Patel is an Indian politician. He is a Former Member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from the Mandvi Assembly constituency since 2002 to 2007 and Abdasa Assembly constituency since 2012 to 2014. in 2014 by-election,Shaktisinh Gohil was elected. Patel was then associated with Indian National Congress but after 2014 he is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Later in 2019,he was suspended out of BJP.
