Kantilal Amrutiya
Kanabhai Shivlal Amrutiya officially known as Kantilal Shivlal Amrutiya, born 8 March 1962, is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly who represented Morbi constituency in Gujarat, India for five terms and Became first time MOS Government of Gujarat in Bhupendrabhai Patel's Ministry reshuffle.
He is known by the name "Kanabhai" among the people of Morbi and surroundings. He has worked in agriculture and industry.
Personal life
Kanabhai was born on 8 March 1962 to a middle-class Patel community family in Jetpar in Morbi district of Gujarat State, India. During the floods due to the Morvi dam failure, in the 1970s, even as a young boy, he volunteered to serve to rehabilitate the victims. As a young man, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student organisation and was involved in the anti-corruption Nav Nirman Movement. After working as a full-time member for the organisation, he then joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. He completed his schooling from V C Technical Highschool at Morbi.Political career
Kanabhai was a Swayam Sevak in the RSS during his early years of social life. He took up the challenging task of energising the party cadres at local level in earnest. In association with co-workers and local industrialist, Kanabhai set about creating a strong cadre base of Bharatiya Janta Party in Morbi District, Saurashtra and Kutch. In the initial period, he started as a Member of Nagarpalika of Morbi and Taluka Panchayat, and his maternal uncle Amubhai Aghara was leading at constituency level.The party cadres started gaining political mileage and formed a good rapport.
In 1995, Kanabhai has taken up the command of Party cadre at Morbi and elected as M.L.A. for the first time. Since then till now he is serving the constituency of Morbi as M.L.A. continuously. In the Gujarat State Election in December 2012, Kanabhai was elected for 5th time.
Tenure as M.L.A. of Morbi
In 1995, Kanabhai was first time elected as MLA and was a part of Government of Gujarat.In 2012 Kanabhai was awarded the 2nd Best M.L.A. award among 182 M.L.A.'s of Gujarat by Shining India Info Pvt Ltd, during a survey project of "EkMulakat".
On 30 August 2015, Amrutiya resigned as the leader of the Morbi Ceramic Federation 5 days after its headquarters was set on fire by a Patidar mob. His office was torched during violence that erupted following the arrest of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti leader Hardik Patel in Ahmedabad.