Jitendrabhai Savjibhai Vaghani (born 11 September, 1970) is an Indian politician from

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

. He is a member of legislative assembly representing Bhavnagar West in

Gujarat Legislative Assembly 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 cons ...

. He was appointed an education minister when Bhupendra Patel became Chief Minister on September 2021.

Political career

Jitu Vaghani entered electoral politics by unsuccessfully contesting

2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election Gujarat's twelfth legislative election was held in 2007. In this election, the BJP led by Narendra Modi won 117 seats out of 182 (ten seats fewer than in 2002). Congress improved its performance and won 59 seats (eight more than last election). ...

from

Bhavnagar Bhavnagar is a city in the Bhavnagar district of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, a States of India, state of India. It was founded in 1723 by Gohil Koli, Bhavsinhji Takhtasinhji Gohil (1703–1764). It was the capital of Bhavnagar State, whi ...

(south) assembly constituency against senior Congress leader

Shaktisinh Gohil Shaktisinh Harishchandrasinhji Gohil (born 4 April 1960) is an Indian politician. He is a Member of Parliament and a member of the Indian National Congress. He is party in-charge for state affairs of Delhi and national spokesperson of All India ...

. He lost by margin of over seven thousand votes. In 2012, Vaghani contested from Bhavnagar (West) Assembly seat, and this time he was successful, winning his seat with highest margin in the entire Saurashtra region. In 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, he got reelected on the same seat with margin of 27000 votes. Vaghani was appointed president of BJP's Gujarat state unit in August 2016 following previous president Vijay Rupani's appointment as Chief Minister of Gujarat. Vaghani was succeeded by

Chandrakant Raghunath Patil C.R. Patil (Chandrakant Raghunath Patil, sometimes his last name is spelt Paatil) is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha of India, elected from Navsari in Gujarat. In 2020 CR Patil was appointed as a new BJP Gujarat chief and he is still in this positi ...

as Gujarat BJP President on 20 July 2020. On 18 September 2021, he became Cabinet Minister of Gujarat and assumed office as Education (Primary, Secondary, Adult), Higher and Technical Education, Science and Technology minister.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaghani, Jitu Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat People from Bhavnagar Gujarat MLAs 2012–2017 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh members Gujarat MLAs 2017–2022 1970 births Living people Gujarati people State Presidents of Bharatiya Janata Party