Vijay Rupani might have been a soft-spoken chief minister, however political observers imagine it could have additionally contributed to his picture of being a ‘weak’ chief minister, who allowed bureaucrats to wield political management in making necessary selections.
Some observers additionally level to the best way he dealt with the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial and social disaster that adopted, even suggesting that it contributed to his downfall. Be.
Rupani (65) throughout his second time period as Chief Minister who resigned on Saturday A yr earlier than the following meeting election, he was instrumental in passing strict anti-conversion legal guidelines towards inter-religious marriages, and one other towards these concerned in cow slaughter.
Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the face of the BJP within the 2019 Lok Sabha election marketing campaign in his residence state, it was Rupani, from the comparatively small Jain neighborhood, who ran the celebration equipment in Gujarat as CM.
Born in Rangoon (now Yangon, Myanmar), Rupani joined the RSS shakha as a schoolboy, earlier than graduating to the BJP by way of the Sangh’s pupil wing- the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
Before changing into CM for the primary time in 2016, Rupani labored principally within the celebration group in Gujarat, and contested his first meeting election in 2014, successful a by-election from Rajkot West.
Rupani, a low-profile RSS determine, was again within the chief minister’s chair in 2017, escaping the violent quota agitation by the facility issue and Patidars.
A legislation graduate, Rupani was a Rajya Sabha member between 2006 and 2012.
When he headed the Gujarat Tourism Development Corporation in 2006, the massively profitable advert marketing campaign ‘Khushboo Gujarat Ki’, that includes megastar Amitabh Bachchan, was launched to advertise the state as a tourism hotspot.
On February 19, 2016, he was appointed because the chief of Gujarat BJP.
When Anandiben Patel, the state’s first and solely lady chief minister, resigned in August 2016 following allegations of not dealing with the Patidar and Dalit actions correctly, Rupani was moved to the new seat.
Rupani honed his political expertise within the crucible of the Gujarat Navnirman Andolan, a socio-political motion in 1974 by college students and the center class towards financial misery and corruption in public life.
Rupani, who was with the ABVP at the moment, was in jail for nearly a yr throughout the Emergency.
As mayor of Rajkot in 1996–97, he endeared himself to the individuals of the town together with his initiatives for the advance of civic infrastructure.
Rupani’s aptitude as a politician was examined within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections when Modi tried for a second time in energy.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
