Know Your Candidate: Balukrishna Shukla from Raopura of BJP

The Sanskarnagari Vadodara holds a very strong connection with the Maharashtrians due to the royal Gaekwads ruling the Baroda princely state before the independence. Today as well, the clustered population of Maharashtrians can be seen in the city area. This time, considering the Marathi lobby, Balkrishna Shukla has been given a chance to contest elections from BJP from the Raopura seat. Instead of taking a candidate from Akota seat, this time instead of Rajendra Trivedi Shukla has been appointed to contest elections.

Balkrishna Shukla was Mayor of Vadodara from 2008 to 2010. He was elected to 15th Lok Sabha in 2009 and also became a member of Committee on Commerce and in 2010 he became a members of Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests.

But this time he will be contesting elections after 13 years of break from politics or any other major position. But to this, when we asked people about him, the people of Raopura were very optimistic where they mentioned that he has been contributing to people all this while. Whereas, some people were rigid to vote for BJP irrespective of the candidate.

Connection with LGBTQ+ community
When he was serving as Member of Parliament Balakrishna Shukla had spoken of extending his support to the LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgenders) community. Not only this, he had started the process of implementing many beneficial schemes for the transgender community.

He did his education from MS University, did his bachelor in Geology and later went on to pursue MBA from Human Resources. The question is