Vijay Rupani Age

BJP leader Vijay Rupani was born on 2 August 1956. He is 62 years old.

Vijay Rupani Education

He studied Bachelor of Arts from Dharmendrasinhji Arts College and LLB from Saurashtra University. Later he became partner in a trading firm Rasiklal & Sons, founded by his father. He had worked as a stock broker.

Vijay Rupani Family

He was born on 2 August 1956 in Rangoon, Burma to Mayaben and Ramniklal Rupani he was the seventh and youngest son of the couple. Later his family moved to Rajkot in 1960 due to political instability in Burma.

He is married to Anjali Rupani, who is also a member of BJP women wing. Later couple have a son; Rushabh, an engineering student and daughter, Radhika who is married. The couple lost their youngest son Pujit in an accident.

Vijay Rupani Daughter

Their daughter Radhika Rupani married Chartered Accountant Nimit Mishra. Radhika moved to London in 2015 with her husband (Nimit) and her son (Shaurya).

Vijay Rupani Son

Rushabh Rupani is his the second child. However, he lost Pujit, their youngest child fifteen years ago when Pujit was only three years old. He started started the Pujit Rupani Memorial Trust for charity.

Vijay Rupani Photo

Vijay Rupani History

He started his career as student activist associated with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

Rupani joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and subsequently joined Jan Sangh in 1971.

He has been associated with Bharatiya Janta Party since its establishment. Indira Gandhi governemnt imprisoned him for 11 months in the jails in Bhuj and Bhavnagar during the Emergency in 1976. He was a Pracharak of RSS from 1978 to 1981.

Vijay Rupani Election

People elected him as a corporator of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) in 1987 and became the chairman of drainage committee.

Later he became the chairman of standing committee of RMC from 1988 to 1996. Rupani was again elected to RMC in 1995. He served as the mayor of Rajkot from 1996 to 1997.

Soon he became BJP’s Gujarat unit general secretary in 1998 and served as the chairman of manifesto committee during chief ministership of Keshubhai Patel.

Later BJP leadership appointed him as a chairman of Gujarat Tourism in 2006. He was a member of Rajya Sabha from 2006 to 2012.

Soon he served as BJP’s Gujarat unit general secretary four times and chairman of the Gujarat Municipal Finance Board in 2013 during the chief ministership of Narendra Modi.

Vijay Rupani Ministry

Soon Chief Minister Anandiben Patel inducted him as minister in the first cabinet expansion in November 2014 and gave them the ministry of transport, water supply, labor and employment.

Later on 19 February 2016, Rupani became the state BJP president, replacing R. C. Faldu. He was the BJP state president from February 2016 to August 2016.

Vijay Rupani Cabinet

He succeeded Anandiben Patel and sworn in as the Chief Minister of Gujarat on 7 August 2016.

Later newly elected MLA unanimously elected him as the leader of legislature party on 22 December 2017 and continued as the Chief Minister of Gujarat with Nitin Patel as the Deputy Chief Minister

Vijay Rupani Caste

He is not hindu but belongs to Jain family.