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India • Jun 12, 2025

Newsmaker | Former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani among those killed in Air India crash

Vijay Rupani, former Chief Minister of Gujarat and senior BJP leader, lost his life in an Air India plane crash just after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday. The 69-year-old was headed to London. He leaves behind his wife, a son, and a daughter.

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His political journey

Rupani started out with the RSS and its student wing ABVP before rising through BJP ranks. He served as Rajkot's mayor and led the Saurashtra-Kutch Stock Exchange. As Gujarat's CM from 2016 to 2021, he helped BJP sweep all 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state in 2019, pushed key laws like the anti-conversion bill, and kept party factions balanced.