Air India Plane Crash: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Gujarat Minister Vijay Rupani, who was on board the London Air India flight that crashed near Ahmedabad Airport, died in the tragic accident. Rupani, 68, is on his way to London to meet his family. “Our leader and former chief minister, Vijay Rupani, went (London) to meet his family. He is also a victim of this incident. May his soul rest in peace. This is a great loss for the BJP,” Union Minister CR Patil told PTI news agency. Rupani, 68, was one of the 242 people aboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, who crashed in a residential area in Meghani Nagar for five moments after the take off Thursday afternoon. Who was Vijay Rupani? Rupani, the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat for two term from 2016 to 2021, was born to Mayaben and Ramniklal Rupani, in Yangon, Myanmar to a Jain Bania family. Rupani was the seventh and youngest son of the couple. Rupani’s family moved to Rajkot in 1960 due to political instability in Burma Rupani studied arts at Dharmendrasinhji Arts College and Law of Saurashtra University. A low profile BJP leader, Rupani was known in the political circles in Gujarat as someone who didn’t talk much. Rupani rose by the ranks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to become the chief minister of Gujarat in 2016, from corporation to CM Rupani’s political career over a few decades. He started in 1987 as a corporation of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation. He becomes Mayor of Rajkot (1996-1997), Rajya Sabha MP (2006–2012) and the Gujarat State Cabinet Minister before becoming the main minister. RSS, during his university days. He was an active participant in the Navnirman movement and was inspired by the Jai Prakash Narayan-led anti-hour movement. He joined the BJP when he was in 1975. In 1975, Rupani was jailed in Bhavnagar Prison imprisonment after protesting against Indira Gandhi’s emergency. Rupani is also an active Swayam Sevak of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS). Rupani, a member of the Gujarat Jain community, worked largely within the party organization before winning his first meeting of Rajkot West in 2014. “Khushboo Gujarat Ki” campaign Rupani is also known for his role as chairman of the Gujarat Tourism Development Corporation in 2006, when the popular Bachan was Gujarat KI campaign with Amitabh -bachhboo Gujarat KI. In 2013, he was the head of the Gujarat Municipal Finance Board. Rupani was appointed President of the BJP in February 2016. He succeeded Anandiben Patel as Chief Minister after her resignation in August 2016. Rupani allegedly addressed the internal division and public unrest to retain the BJP’s leadership in the state, even as the meeting of the meeting in the 2017 elections in 2017. Gujarat meeting. Second gujarat cm or ex-cm to die on board. This is the second incident with a sitting or former Gujarat minister who meets this tragic fate in an air accident, a tragic echo of the death of Balwantrai Mehta six decades ago. In September 1965, Balwantrai Mehta, the second cm from Gujarat flew a Beuk from Ahmedabad to Mithapur when the plane was shot dead by the Pakistani air force during the Indo-pack war. Two F-86 Saber Jets, who believe that the civil plane is a military threat, opened near the Rann of Kutch and killed Mehta, his wife Sarojben, assistants, a journalist and two crew members.
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