title: Bhanuben Babariya
text: # Bhanuben Babariya
  
  Bhanuben Manoharbhai Babariya is an Indian politician from Gujarat. She is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from the Rajkot Rural Assembly constituency since 2017. She is an incumbent cabinet minister in the Second Bhupendrabhai Patel Ministry.
  
  ## Political career
  
  She is a member of BJP. She was given ticket in 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, she defeated AAP candidate Vashrambhai Sagathiya by margin of 48,494 votes.
  
  Also currently she is a councilor from Ward no. 1 in Rajkot Municipal Corporation.
  
  ## Political Reception
  
  As minister for women and child development, she informed the state that Gujarat had 1.25 lakh children who were malnourished.
  
  