Bulaki Das Kalla (born 4 October 1949) or Dr. B.D. Kalla, is an Indian politician from Bikaner Rajasthan. He is Education(primary and secondary), sanskrit education,arts, literature and culture & ASI minister in Rajasthan government.

Contents

• 1 Family and Education
• 2 Career
• 3 2018 Rajasthan *embly Elections
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Family and Education

He has done B.Sc., M.A. (Economics), L.L.B and Ph.D. He is the son of Giridhari Lal Kalla. He got married to Shiv *ari Kalla on 10 February 1971. They have two sons (Ashwani Kalla and Pawan Kalla) and two daughters (Radha & Rajani).

Career

Dr. B.D. Kalla began his career in 1974 as a lecturer in a B.J.S. Rampuriya College in Bikaner. Then he turned towards politics and served as an MLA from Bikaner city in the Rajasthan Legislative *embly upon winning *embly elections for 5 times i.e. in 1980, 1985, 1990, 1998 and 2003.

Kalla served as the Minister for Secondary Education from 1990 and 2003 and did justice for his position with his previous experience in the education sector. Dr. B.D. Kalla was the Leader of the Opposition party from January 2004 to January 2006, as an active member of Indian National Congress in Rajasthan Legislative *embly. He also served as President of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee & Chairman of 4th Finance Commission.

In 2008 Rajasthan Legislative *embly elections, the Bikaner cons*uency was split into Bikaner East (Rajasthan *embly cons*uency) and Bikaner West (Rajasthan *embly cons*uency) after the delimitation of boundaries by the Govt. BD Kalla lost 2008 & 2013 elections to BJP candidate Dr. Gopal Joshi (who is also Dr. Kalla's brother-in-law).

2018 Rajasthan *embly Elections

In November 2018, INC announced its first list of candidates & Dr. Kalla's name was not in it. His supporters took it offensively which caused political turmoil in Bikaner and Congress leadership took note of it, hence allocating ticket to Dr.Kalla from Bikaner West Cons*uency.

In December 2018, Dr BD Kalla won & become Minister in CM Ashok Gehlot's cabinet. He is one of the three ministers who have studied up to Ph.D., out of a total of 23 ministers in Gehlot's 2018 Cabinet. He was minister of Energy, Public Health Engineering, Ground Water, Art, Culture & Archeology departments till November 2021, and currently is the State Education Minister in Rajasthan Government.

References

External links

• Profile
• Personal website