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'''Arjandas Tulsidas Gajwani''' was a [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] politician in [[India]].<ref name="Bharadwaj1988">{{cite book|author=Prakash Bharadwaj|title=Sindhis Through the Ages: Far-East & South-East Asian countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tnpCAAAAYAAJ|year=1988|publisher=World-Wide Publishing Company|page=220}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=India: A Reference Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qb9FAQAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.|page=479}}</ref> He was born on January 3, 1915.<ref name="SudSud1953">{{cite book|author1=S. P. Singh Sud|author2=Ajit Singh Sud|title=Indian Elections and Legislators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATs0AAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=All India Publications|page=288}}</ref> He became an advocate in 1936.<ref name="SudSud1953"/> Arjandas was a member of the municipal council of [[Rohri]] from 1942 to 1944 and served as the president of the municipality.<ref name="SudSud1953"/> He published the [[Sindhi language]] newspaper ''Hindu'', founded in [[Ajmer]] in 1948.<ref>{{cite book|title=Press in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuEfAQAAIAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Office of the Registrar of Newspapers.|page=378}}</ref><br />
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He was a member of the Working Committee of the political party [[Pursharathi Panchayat]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Times of India Directory & Yearbook, Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3IiAQAAIAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Times of India Press|page=978}}</ref> Arjandas was elected to the [[Ajmer Legislative Assembly]] in the [[1952 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election|1952 election]]. He stood as a candidate of Pursharathi Panchayat in the two-member constituency Ajmer-I (South West). He obtained 5,549 votes (21.66%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[https://eci.gov.in/files/file/4110-ajmer-1951/ Ajmer, 1951]''</ref> He was elected to the [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]] in the [[1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election|1957]], standing as an independent candidate in the Ajmer City West constituency. He obtained 14,400 votes (52.42%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3379-rajasthan-1957/ Rajasthan, 1957]''</ref><br />
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