Babu Katara is back

By our correspondent, Ahmedabad, 2 April 2013

BJP has declared the names of national council representatives for each of 26 Lok Sabha seat. The name that attracts high attention in the list is Babu Katara of Dahod.

Babu Katara was member of parliament elected from Dahod on BJP ticket and was arrested in 2007 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport while trying to take 30-year-old Paramjeet and 14-year-old Amarjeet Singh to Canada on the passport of his wife Sharda Ben and son Rakesh. The Crime Branch of the Delhi police had later recovered a dozen passports from the residence of Katara in raids conducted in Gujarat. Katara stayed in jail for a year, and got bail to vote in favour of Congress-led UPA government during no-confidence motion. He exercised his vote in favor of ruling UPA govt. The BJP expelled him for defying party whip for voting in favor of UPA government. Katara was eventually expelled from Lok Sabha for his involvement in human trafficking in 2008.

Sources in Dahod told DeshGujarat, that after Katara’s expulsion, BJP didn’t win Lok Sabha polls in Dahod for two terms. Katara slowly again became active in BJP, and presently enjoying the post of Marketing Yard Chairman of Jhalod town.

Full list of BJP national council representatives for Lok Sabha seat from Gujarat:

Kutch – Pushpadan Gadhvi
Banaskantha – Naukaben Prajapati
Patan – Magansinh Vaghela
Mehsana – Jayantibhai Barot
Sabarkantha – Ramilaben Bara
Gandhinagar – LK Advani
Ahmedabad East – Arun Jaitley
Ahmedabad West – Zaverbhai Chavda
Surendranagar – Dashrathsinh Rana
Rajkot – Mohinikunvarba Jadeja
Porbandar – Gordhanbhai Javia
Jamnagar – Chandreshbhai Patel
Junagadh – Madhabhai Boricha
Amreli – Dilip Sanghani
Bhavnagar – Mahendra Trivedi
Anand – Shirishbhai Shukla
Kheda – Sundarsinh Chauhan
Panchmahal – Minakshiben Pandya
Dahod – Babu Katara
Vadodara – Jayaben Thakkar
Chhota Udepur – Abhesinh Tadvi
Bharuch – Devendrasinh Solanki
Bardoli – Mansingbhai Patel
Surat – Pravinbhai Nayak
Navsari – Kanjibhai Patel
Valsad – Madhubhai B Raut