Bulaki Das Kalla (born 4 October 1949) or Dr. B.D. Kalla, is an Indian politician from Bikaner

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

. He is Education (primary and secondary), sanskrit education, arts, literature and culture & ASI

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Family and education

He has done B.Sc., M.A. (Economics), L.L.B. and Ph.D. He is the son of Giridhari Lal Kalla. He married Shiv Kumari Kalla on 10 February 1971. They have two sons, Ashwani Kalla and Pawan Kalla, and two daughters, Radha and Rajani.

Career

Kalla began his career in 1974 as a lecturer in a B.J.S. Rampuriya College in Bikaner. Then he turned towards politics and served as an MLA from

Bikaner Bikaner () is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is located northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. Bikaner city is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division. Formerly the capital of ...

city in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly upon winning assembly elections five times i.e. in 1980, 1985, 1990, 1998 and 2003. Kalla served as the Minister for Secondary Education from 1990 and 2003 and did justice to his position with his previous experience in the education sector. Dr. B.D. Kalla was the

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party from January 2004 to January 2006, as an active member of

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in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He also served as President of

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& Chairman of 4th Finance Commission. In 2008 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections, the Bikaner constituency was split into Bikaner East (Rajasthan Assembly constituency) and Bikaner West (Rajasthan Assembly constituency) after the delimitation of boundaries by the Govt. BD Kalla lost 2008 & 2013 elections to BJP candidate Dr. Gopal Joshi (who is also Dr. Kalla's brother-in-law).

2018 Rajasthan Assembly Elections

In November 2018, INC announced its first list of candidates and Dr. Kalla's name was not in it. His supporters took it offensively which caused political turmoil in Bikaner and Congress leadership took note of it, hence allocating ticket to Dr. Kalla from Bikaner West Constituency. In December 2018, Dr BD Kalla won & became Minister in CM Ashok Gehlot's cabinet. He is one of the three ministers who have studied up to Ph.D., out of a total of 23 ministers in Gehlot's 2018 Cabinet. He was minister of Energy, Public Health Engineering, Ground Water, Art, Culture & Archeology departments till November 2021, and currently is the State Education Minister in Rajasthan Government.

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Indian National Congress politicians 1949 births Living people Rajasthani politicians People from Bikaner Leaders of the Opposition in Rajasthan Rajasthan MLAs 2018–2023 Indian National Congress politicians from Rajasthan {{Rajasthan-INC-politician-stub