Mahatma Gandhi's Great Grandson Elected to Kansas State Assembly

Shanti Gandhi, a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi was elected to a State Assembly in the United States during the general elections held on 6 November 2012.

72 Years old Shanti Gandhi contested as a Republican Party candidate and had defeated his Democratic rival Theodore “Ted” Ensley by nine percentage point for the Kansas’s 52nd Assembly District.

Shanti Gandhi is son of late Saraswati Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson - the late Kanti Lal.

Shanti Gandhi, who was a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon retired in 2010 from Stormont-Vail Hospital at Topeka City in the Kansas State. He had received 6413 votes as against Ensley’s 5357 to win the elections which was  held on 6 November 2012 for the State’s, as per the results declared by the Kansas Secretary of State.

Shanti Gandhi went US in the year 1967 as a medical graduate from University of Bombay.