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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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| constituency = [[Porbandar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Porbandar]], [[Gujarat]]<ref name=" Lok Sabha profile ">{{cite news|title=Lok Sabha profile|publisher=Lok Sabha website|access-date=14 August 2012|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=4446|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101011358/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=4446|archive-date=1 January 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
| office = [[Member of Parliament]] [[15th Lok Sabha]]
| term = 2009–2019.<ref name=" Lok Sabha profile " />
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|birth_place = [[Rajkot]], [[Bombay State]], [[India]]<ref name=" Lok Sabha profile " />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|7|29|1958|11|08}}<ref>{{cite web |author=PTI |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/gujarat-bjp-stalwart-vitthal-radadiya-dies-at-61-pm-modi-remembers-powerful-farmer-leader-1574757-2019-07-29 |title=Gujarat BJP stalwart Vitthal Radadiya dies at 61, PM Modi remembers powerful farmer leader |publisher=indiatoday.in |date=29 July 2019 |access-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729090618/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/gujarat-bjp-stalwart-vitthal-radadiya-dies-at-61-pm-modi-remembers-powerful-farmer-leader-1574757-2019-07-29 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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'''Vitthalbhai Hansrajbhai Radadiya''' (8 November 1958 – 29 July 2019) was a member of the 15th [[Lok Sabha]] of [[India]]. He represented the [[Porbandar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Porbandar]] constituency of [[Gujarat]] and was a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] political party.<ref name=" Lok Sabha profile " /> He was a five time [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] and twice [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha]].

==Career==
Radadiya had a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree and worked as a [[Social worker]] and politician.<ref name=" Lok Sabha profile " /> He ran a few schools through trusts. He was a BJP MLA who had joined [[Shankersinh Vaghela]]'s Rashtriya Janata Party and afterward the Congress. In the early 1990s Radadiya joined the BJP, later he moved to the Congress Party. In 2013, he re-joined BJP.<ref name="TheHindu">{{cite news |title=Former Gujarat MP Vitthal Radadiya dead |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/former-gujarat-mp-vitthal-radadiya-dead/article28745425.ece |access-date=29 July 2019 |work=The Hindu |date=29 July 2019 |language=en-IN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729105625/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/former-gujarat-mp-vitthal-radadiya-dead/article28745425.ece |archive-date=29 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> He represented Dhoraji Assembly constituency five times.<ref name="NDTV_death">{{cite news |title=Vitthal Radadiya, Former Gujarat Lawmaker, Dies At 61 |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vitthal-radadiya-former-gujarat-lawmaker-dies-at-61-2076970 |access-date=29 July 2019 |work=NDTV.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729132825/https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vitthal-radadiya-former-gujarat-lawmaker-dies-at-61-2076970 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

He was also director of IIFCO company and the chairman of the Rajkot district co-operative bank.<ref name="NDTV_death" />

Radadiya had sparked a controversy in October 2012 also after brandishing a gun at a toll booth employee after he asked for his identity card.<ref name="NDTV_death" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/as-mp-i-deserve-respect-congress-mp-vitthalbhai-radadiya-who-pulled-gun-at-toll-attendant-501596|title=As MP, I deserve respect: Congress MP Vitthalbhai Radadiya who pulled gun at toll attendant|website=NDTV.com|access-date=2019-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914052516/http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/as-mp-i-deserve-respect-congress-mp-vitthalbhai-radadiya-who-pulled-gun-at-toll-attendant-501596|archive-date=14 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Posts held===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! No. !! From !! To !! Position
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| 1 || 1993 || 1997 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] for BJP from [[Dhoraji (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhoraji]], ([[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|9th assembly]])<ref name="TheHindu" />
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| 2 || 1998 || 2002 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] for Vaghela's Party from Dhoraji, ([[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|10th assembly]])<ref name="TheHindu" />
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| 3 || 2002 || 2007 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] for Congress from Dhoraji, ([[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|11th assembly]])<ref name="TheHindu" />
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| 4 || 2007 || 2009 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] for Congress from Dhoraji, ([[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|12th assembly]])<ref name="TheHindu" />
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| 5 || 2009 || 2012 || [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for Congress from [[Porbandar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Porbandar]], [[15th Lok Sabha]]<ref name="NDTV_death" />
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| 6 || 2012 || 2013 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] for Congress from Dhoraji, ([[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|13th assembly]])<ref name="TheHindu" />
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| 7 || 2013 || 2014 || [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for BJP from Porbandar (by-poll), [[15th Lok Sabha]]<ref name="NDTV_death" />
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| 8 || 2014 || 2019 || [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for BJP from [[Porbandar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Porbandar]], [[16th Lok Sabha]]<ref name="NDTV_death" />
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Radadiya won Lok Sabha seat for Congress in 2009, but gave up the seat after he became MLA for Congress from Dhoraji after 2012 assembly elections.<ref name="NDTV_death" /> He resigned from Congress immediately after those elections and contested Lok Sabha by-poll of 2013 on BJP ticket and won.<ref name="NDTV_death" />

==Personal life==
He was married to Chetna Ben.<ref name=" Lok Sabha profile " /> His son [[Jayesh Radadiya]] is also a politician and holds the portfolio for Gujarat Minister of Tourism and Aviation. Radadiya's son Kalpesh had died of cardiac arrest when in his 20s. In 2014, Radadiya married off Kalpesh's widow Manisha in her second marriage to Kalpesh's friend Hardik Chovatiya.<ref name="Kalpesh">{{cite news |title=Radadiya plays father to widowed daughter-in-law {{!}} Rajkot News - Times of India |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/Radadiya-plays-father-to-widowed-daughter-in-law/articleshow/43594975.cms |access-date=29 July 2019 |work=The Times of India |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923205107/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/Radadiya-plays-father-to-widowed-daughter-in-law/articleshow/43594975.cms |archive-date=23 September 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Radadiya died on 29 July 2019 due to cancer.<ref name="TheHindu" />

==See also==
{{Portal|India}}
*[[List of members of the 15th Lok Sabha of India]]
*[[Politics of India]]
*[[Parliament of India]]
*[[Government of India]]
*[[Gujarat Legislative Assembly]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}{{16th LS members from Gujarat|state=expanded}}

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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat]]
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[[Category:People from Rajkot]]
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[[Category:16th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:People from Porbandar district]]
[[Category:Gujarat MLAs 1995–1998]]
[[Category:Gujarat MLAs 1998–2002]]
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[[Category:Gujarat MLAs 2007–2012]]
[[Category:Rashtriya Janata Party politicians]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat]]

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