Kantilal Amrutiya

[citation needed] As a young man, he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student organisation and was involved in the anti-corruption Nav Nirman Movement.

In association with co-workers and local industrialist, Kanabhai set about creating a strong cadre base of Bharatiya Janta Party in Morbi District, Saurashtra and Kutch.

In the initial period, he started as a Member of Nagarpalika of Morbi and Taluka Panchayat, and his maternal uncle Amubhai Aghara was leading at constituency level.

[5] His office was torched during violence that erupted following the arrest of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel in Ahmedabad.

In 2004, Amrutiya and six others were given sentences of life imprisonment, after being convicted by the Gondal sessions court in the case of conspiring and killing the former president of Morbi municipality, Praveen Raveshia.