Arjandas

Arjandas Tulsidas Gajwani was a Sindhi politician in India.[1][2] He was born on January 3, 1915.[3] He became an advocate in 1936.[3] Arjandas was a member of the municipal council of Rohri 1942-1944 and served as the president of the municipality.[3] He published the Sindhi language newspaper Hindu, founded in Ajmer in 1948.[4]

He was a member of the Working Committee of the political party Pursharathi Panchayat.[5] Arjandas was elected to the Ajmer Legislative Assembly in the 1952 election. He stood as a candidate of Pursharathi Panchayat in the two-member constituency Ajmer-I (South West). He obtained 5,549 votes (21.66%).[6] He was elected to the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in the 1957, standing as an independent candidate in the Ajmer City West constituency. He obtained 14,400 votes (52.42%).[7]

References
  1. Prakash Bharadwaj (1988). Sindhis Through the Ages: Far-East & South-East Asian countries. World-Wide Publishing Company. p. 220.
  2. India: A Reference Annual. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 1956. p. 479.
  3. S. P. Singh Sud; Ajit Singh Sud (1953). Indian Elections and Legislators. All India Publications. p. 288.
  4. Press in India. Office of the Registrar of Newspapers. 1964. p. 378.
  5. The Times of India Directory & Yearbook, Including Who's who. Times of India Press. 1955. p. 978.
  6. Election Commission of India. Ajmer, 1951
  7. Election Commission of India. Rajasthan, 1957
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