Biography of shanti gandhi ( great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi )

A great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi has been elected to a state Assembly in the United States during the general elections held on November 6. Shanti Gandhi, 72, contesting as a Republican Party candidate, defeated his Democratic rival Theodore "Ted" Ensley by nine percentage point for the Kansas's 52nd Assembly District.

He is son of late Saraswati Gandhi, wife of MahatmaGandhi's grandson the late Kanti Lal.

Gandhi, a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon retired in 2010 form Stormont-Vail Hospital at Topeka City in the Kansas State, received 6,413 votes against Ensley's 5,357 in the elections held on Tuesday for the State's, according to the results declared by the Kansas Secretary of State.

He arrived in the US in 1967 as a medical graduate from University of Bombay.

Biography of  shanti gandhi

Shanti Gandhi (Born October 2, 1940) is a India-born American cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon and member of Kansas State Legislature elected from 52nd Assembly District, during 2012 general elections.[1] He contested as a Republican Party candidate. He arrived in the US in 1967 as a medical graduate from University of Bombay.[2] Shanti is the son of the Kanti Lal Gandhi and Saraswati Gandhi and the great-grandson of the Indian Independence movement leader Mahatma Gandhi. He retired as a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon from Stormont-Vail Hospital at Topeka, Kansas in 2010