Nimaben Bhaveshbhai Acharya is a

Member of Legislative assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. ...

from Anjar constituency in

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

for its 12th legislative assembly. She previously served on the Gujarat family planning council.

Incidents

In April 2017, Acharya was traveling to a funeral when her vehicle was attacked by unidentified males who hurled stones at it, breaking the glass of the car, but Acharya and her driver were unharmed.

Controversy

She was indicted to one year jail term by Morbi Magistrate for buying voters with money along with ex-MLA Kanti Amrutiya during 2009 Loksabha polls.

Political Career

Not many know that she started her political career 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 E ...

by winning 2002 & 2007 Assembly elections on a Congress ticket. But soon in 2007, her husband and 6 corporators switched sides to Bharatiya Janata Party, Nimaben followed her husband's path soon. She was thrown away from Congress party in 2007 due to anti party activities when she voted for Bhairon Singh Shekhawat in presidential elections.

References

Living people Gujarat MLAs 2012–2017 Women in Gujarat politics Politicians from Kutch district 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat Gujarat MLAs 2017–2022 Year of birth missing (living people) Gujarat politicians Gujarat's first women speaker {{Gujarat-BJP-politician-stub