Sonia Gehlot is an Indian entrepreneur and interior designer. She is the daughter of the 14th Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot.
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Wiki/Biography
Sonia Gehlot Ankhad completed her formal education from Pune and Mumbai respectively. He has a degree in architecture.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′5″
Hair color: black
Eye color: dark brown
family and caste
Sonia Gehlot belongs to Backward Mali (Gardener) Community (OBC).
parents and siblings
His father, Ashok Gehlot, is a Congress politician and the 14th Chief Minister of Rajasthan.
His mother, Sunita Gehlot, is a housewife.
His brother Vaibhav Gehlot is a politician.
husband and children
Her husband Gautam Ankhadi is a lawyer. The couple got married in 2001.
He has a son and a daughter.
Address
He resides at House No. 6a, Ganga Building, Banganga Cross Lane Walkeshwar, Mumbai-400006.
Career
After completing her higher studies, Sonia Gehlot was employed as an architect in a Mumbai-based construction company called Kalpataru Group. In 2006, Sonia Gehlot left Shouri Constructions, a sister company of the Kalpataru Group, where she was promoted and became the company’s director the same year. He later left Shouri Constructions to found his own interior design company, Architecture & Beyond.
Confrontation
Allegations that he helped a construction company win contracts in Rajasthan
In 2011, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made a series of allegations against Sonia Gehlot and Gautam Ankhadi. In the allegations, the BJP alleged that Sonia and Gautam, through their connections in the Rajasthan government, helped the Kalpataru group to win several contracts in the state. The party also alleged that Kalapataru helped the group win contracts, with the couple being rewarded with a luxury flat in Mumbai worth Rs 8 crore; However, Ashok Gehlot denied all the allegations and said that the allegations were false and deliberately leveled by the opposition and several media houses against his relatives. In its defence, the Kalpataru Group claimed that Sonia was given the flat in lieu of royalties for her work as an architect in the company.
Assets/Properties
Sonia Gehlot owns an apartment worth Rs 8 crore in a posh area of Mumbai.
Facts/Trivia
- In 2019, Sonia Gehlot campaigned for Vaibhav Gehlot in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
- In 2020, Sonia Gehlot wrote an article for an architecture magazine entitled The Ideal Home and Garden.
- Later that year, Sonia Gehlot wrote another article for The Design Collective Magazine.
- Sonia Gehlot is a pet lover. She has a pet dog named Coco.
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