Mohan Dhedabhai Kokani (born 1960) is an Indian politician from

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. He is a member of the

Gujarat Legislative Assembly 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 ...

from Vyara Assembly constituency, which is reserved for Scheduled Tribe community, in

Tapi district Tapi district is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state in western India. It has seven talukas Vyara, Songadh, Nizar, Valod, Uchhal, Dolavan, Kukarmunda. Vyara town is the district headquarters. Tapi has 523 villages and two municipaliti ...

. He won the

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representing the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Early life and education

Kokani is from

Vyara Vyara is a town and the district headquarters of the Tapi district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is 65 kilometres from Surat. Demographics India census, Vyara had a population of 36,213. Males constitute 49% of the population and females 5 ...

, Tapi district, Gujarat. He is the son of Dhedabhai Kokani. He completed his MA in 1999 at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, and later did B.Ed. through open stream at

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, Delhi in 2001.

Career

Kokani won from Vyara Assembly constituency representing the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

in the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. He polled 69,633 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Bipin Chaudhari of

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, ) is a List of political parties in India, political party in India. It was founded on 26 November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions, following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement against then gover ...

, by a margin of 22,120 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kokani, Mohan 1960 births Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat Gujarat MLAs 2022–2027 People from Tapi district Indira Gandhi National Open University alumni