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In the last week of December Jignesh Mevani's Meghaninagar house was filled with “well-wishers” — supporters, fellow comrades who had come from far-flung villages where Mevani has worked — to congratulate their leader upon his maiden election victory in the Gujarat Assembly elections from the Vadgam constituency. A visibly elated Mevani was greeting everyone, he seemed to know those who had gathered by their first names.
Less than a month later, he had made his debut as a national politician, organising a Yuva Hunkar (The roar of the youth) at a defiant meeting on New Delhi’s Parliament Street where prohibitory
