Kamla Beniwal

Who is Kamla Beniwal?

Kamla Beniwal is the Governor of the Indian state of Gujarat. Before this she was the Governor of Tripura. She is a senior congress politician from Rajasthan state. She served as a minister in a number of congress ministries in the Rajasthan state government. The 85 year old Kamla was the first female governor of any North East state.

She was born in the village Gaurir in Jhunjhunu district in a Jat family.

At the age of 27, she was the first female minister in Rajasthan. Kamla has been a minister in Congress governments in Rajasthan since 1954, holding many portfolios, including home, education and agriculture. She was the revenue minister in the Ashok Gehlot government.

Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal and many former Congress Ministers and political leaders from Rajasthan were accused in the 1,000-crore Jaipur Development Authority land scam. She was allocated expensive land at low prices on the basis of false affidavits and documents.

Dr Kamla Beniwal had claimed to be a farm labourer putting in 16 hours of work every day for the past 41,000 days according to the records of Kisan Samuhik Krishi Sahakari Samiti Limited, a cooperative body in Jaipur, based upon which land was allocated to her. The cooperatives registrar of Jaipur passed strong strictures against KSKSSL and in its inquiry concluded that the samiti's claim that they were farm labourers was false, and that the samiti had deliberately and intentionally given false statements. This issue was raised in Rajya Sabha during the pre-noon sitting which led to stalled proceedings and the House was then adjourned for 15 minutes.