1. Samaldas Gandhi was a journalist and Indian independence activist who headed the Aarzi Hakumat or Provisional Government of the erstwhile princely state of Junagadh.
11 Facts About Samaldas Gandhi
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Samaldas Gandhi served as a deputy editor and later editor of it from 1937 to 1940.
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Samaldas Gandhi was the President of Kathiawar Praja Mandal which brought awareness in Bombay regarding problem of people of Kathiawar.
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Samaldas Gandhi was welcome president of the Kathiawar Praja Sammelan held at Azad Maidan in Bombay in June 1947.
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Samaldas Gandhi opposed Jam Group Scheme regarding integration of princely states of Kathiawar.
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Samaldas Gandhi was specially invited to attend Kathiawar Rajakiya Prishad on 25 August 1947.
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On 25 September 1947, the Aarzi Hukumat headed by Samaldas Gandhi was declared in a public meeting at Madhavbagh in Bombay.
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Samaldas Gandhi was one of the seven members elected unopposed to the Constitution Assembly of Saurashtra in December 1948.
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Samaldas Gandhi served as the minister of revenue of Saurashtra State from 25 January 1949 to 18 January 1950.
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Samaldas Gandhi is widely remembered in Junagadh and Gujarat today as a hero and patriot.
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Samaldas Gandhi married Vijayaben and had two sons, Kishor and Hemant; and two daughters, Pushpa and Manjari.