Indian-American Kash Patel, the US Senate confirmed for the head of the Bureau of Investigation (FBI), explore its roots in Bhadran village in Anand district of Gujarat, from where his family 70 to 80 years ago, of the community Was members. He has been stated on Friday.
New York-born Patel (44), who belongs to the Patidar community, has become the first Indian-American to lead the Major Law Enforcement Agency of the United States.
Leaders of the Patidar community said that all close family members of Mr. Patel are settled abroad. Once he was transferred to Africa, he sold his ancestral homes in Bhadran.
Chh Gam Phatidar Mendal, an organization of the community located in Anand, maintains one ‘Linery’ (Family tree) of its members.
In ‘Linery’ We also have the names of Kash Patel’s father Pramod Patel and his brothers and grandfather, “said Rajesh Patel, the secretary of the organization and Anand District BJP.
Rajesh Patel told PTI that although Kash Patel’s name was still added to the family tree, his family has 18 generations entry ‘Linery’ And it is stored in his office with all the members of his community.
“According to our record, the family lived in Moti Khadki area of Bhadran village and went to Uganda some 70 to 80 years ago,” he said.
“The family sold its ancestral home and land and all their relatives are settled abroad, especially in the United States. Now, when a family member of Kash Patek returns to India, we record the names of our next generation Will ask for their permission to do, including their names, ‘Linery’“Rajesh Patel informed.
He said, “We have not met Kash Patel because the family has not visited Anand in recent years. But many people in our community know him because the Patidar community is a close-sowing,” he said.
Rajesh Patel said, as far as he knows, the family returned to India for a short time after expulsion from the African country in 1970.
“Those who were expelled from Indian Uganda came to India for a brief stay, as they applied for asylum in UK, US or Canada. Kash Patel’s family also came here for a brief stopover and Then he had gone to Canada, when his applications were, he accepted.
From Canada, he moved to America, where Kash Patel was born in 1980, Rajesh Patel retained.
Indians migrated to Uganda were expelled by dictator Idi Amin from the African country, who seized power in a military coup in 1971. In 1972, he ordered the Indian community to leave his country in 90 days.
Chh Gam Phatidar Mendal is an organization of the Patidar community from six villages/cities in Anand district – Dharmaja, Nadiad, Sajitra, Bhadran, Vaso and Karamsad. The country’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel came from Karamsad.
The new FBI chief served as the former head of the acting secretary of Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. He was responsible for leading the mission of the secretary in the department, including his executive staff and provided him with a lawyer on all matters related to its operation, Kash Patel was said by a short biography of the US Defense Department on Kash Patel.
A native of New York, Kash Patel completed his graduation at Richmond University before returning to New York to get his law degree in the United Kingdom’s International Laws of London London Faculty Laws in the United Kingdom. .
A trained lawyer Kash Patel, an ice-hockey fan and said that since he has been playing since the age of six.
“We are Gujarati,” he told PTI in an earlier interview in the United States.
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