Kanubhai Kalsaryia is an Indian politician and social activist from

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Career

Kalsariya served as a

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from Mahuva constituency in

for its 10th, 11th and 12th legislative assemblies from 1997 to 2012. He was a member of

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 ...

until 2012 when he did not renew his membership. He led the farmers agitation against

Nirma Nirma is a group of companies based in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, that manufactures products ranging from detergents, soaps, cement, cosmetics, salt, soda ash, LAB and injectables. Karsanbhai Patel, an entrepreneur and philanthrop ...

cement plant near Mahuva in 2011 which resulted in cancellation of environment clearance. He launched Sadbhavna Manch and contested independently in

2012 Gujarat legislative assembly election The 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Gujarat in December 2012 for all 182 members of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), in power si ...

but was unsuccessful. He joined

Aam Admi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (; AAP) is a political party in India, as one of the national political parties. The AAP was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, popularl ...

in 2014 and later moved to

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

in July 2018. In November 2018, he led an agitation against the land acquisition for UltraTech cement plant near

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. Later in February 2021, he was sentenced to six months in jail by the local court for trespassing the mining site of the company.

References

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