She is without doubt one of the Congress’s high leaders in north Gujarat and has impressed many along with her exact speeches within the Gujarat Meeting in her first time period. Geniben Thakor, 46, the MLA of the constituency of Vav in Banaskantha district belongs to the numerically important Thakor neighborhood and got here to the limelight within the 2017 Meeting polls after she defeated sitting minister and senior BJP chief Shankar Chaudhary in her second try.
Geniben was an exterior pupil of political science on the Jain Vishva Bharati Institute. However she dropped out of graduate research within the first yr. After a tenure on the Banaskantha district panchayat, in 2012 she was given a Congress ticket from Vav, which has a big variety of voters from the Thakor and Dalit communities. Although Geniben misplaced to Shankar Chaudhary by 11,911 votes, she left a mark.
In 2017, within the backdrop of the state witnessing the emergence of younger leaders resembling Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor, and Jignesh Mevani, the Congress once more fielded Geniben in opposition to Chaudhary and she or he defeated the minister by 6,655 votes. She is without doubt one of the 13 lady legislators within the present Meeting. Three of them are from the Congress and 10 are from the BJP.
A Congress insider mentioned Geniben should be one of many sitting MLAs virtually sure to be given a celebration ticket within the Meeting elections. “To begin with, she is a big killer who defeated a tall BJP chief and sitting minister like Shankar Chaudhary. Additionally, she is a politician who fulfils each expectation of her voters. She doesn’t miss a single social operate of her constituency whether or not it’s associated to marriage or loss of life,” mentioned the get together functionary.