Rajeshkumar Maganbhai Zala (born 1987) is an Indian politician from

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 Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

. 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 Kapadvanj Assembly constituency in

Kheda district Kheda District, known as Kaira District during British rule, is one of the thirty-three districts of Gujarat state in western India. It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Kheda and Anand districts. Kheda was an administrativ ...

. He won the

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representing the

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Early life and education

Zala is from

Kapadvanj Kapadvanj (Karpat – Vanjiyam or "The Land of Textile") is a town as well as one of the Taluka of the Kheda district in the Gujarat, India. It is located on bank of river Mohar. It is 65 km away from Ahmedabad and 93 km away from Vado ...

, Kheda district, Gujarat. He is the son of Maganbhai Gokalbhai Zala. He studied Class 12 at Saraswati Mandir, Tal Kadlal, Kheda district and passed the examinations in 2009. Later, he discontinued his studies.

Career

Zala won from Kapadvanj Assembly constituency representing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. He polled 112,036 votes and defeated his nearest rival,

Kalabhai Dabhi Kalabhai Raijibhai Dabhi is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Kapadvanj in the 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He shifted to the Indian National C ...

of the

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, by a margin of 31,878 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zala, Rajeshkumar 1987 births Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat Gujarat MLAs 2022–2027 People from Kheda district