Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya (born 6 September 1951) is an Indian politician and a former Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmer Welfare in the

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. He was also elected to

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from

Tankara Tankara is a town in Morbi district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is situated on the Demi River and on Rajkot-Morbi Highway, 20 kilometres from Morbi, 40 kilometres from Rajkot, and 80 kilometres from Jamnagar. Tankara is cons ...

assembly constituency of

Rajkot Rajkot () is the fourth-largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the ...

district.

Career

He served as Minister of State from May 2014 to 5 July 2016.

Personal life

Twelve of Kundariya's family members, including his sister, were killed during the

2022 Morbi bridge collapse On 30 October 2022, a pedestrian suspension bridge over the Machchhu River in the city of Morbi in Gujarat, India, collapsed, causing the deaths of at least 141 people and injuries to more than 180 others. The 19th-century bridge had reopened ...

References

Living people India MPs 2014–2019 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat Lok Sabha members from Gujarat People from Rajkot district Narendra Modi ministry 1951 births India MPs 2019–2024 {{Gujarat-BJP-politician-stub