Gangster Arun Gawli tops Gandhian exam
Nagpur, August 13
Gangster-politician Arun Gawli has topped the 2017 Gandhi awareness exam, an organiser said on Monday.
Gawli, who is currently serving a life sentence for murder, got 74 of 80 questions right in the open-book examination,
"We are happy that he has made a serious effort to imbibe Gandhian principles in his life in prison," Ravindra Bhusari, Trustee of Sahyog Trust, told IANS.
He was among 160 prisoners—convicts as well as undertrials—of Nagpur Central Jail to take the examination, which Sahyog Trust conducted with two NGOs, Sarvoday Ashram and Mumbai Sarvoday, in October last year. Results were declared last week.
The examination is not mandatory. Those who passed get a certificate and Khadi clothes as reward.
"Before the exam, study material on Gandhiji's books was provided in the jail," Bhusari said.
Gawli is a notorious gangster with several criminal cases against him. Known as 'Daddy' in Mumbai's Dagdi Chawl, Gawli founded his own political party—the Akhil Bharatiya Sena—in 1997, and tasted his first electoral victory in 2004, when he won from Chichpokli assembly segment.
In 2012, a Mumbai court found him and 11 other people guilty of murdering Shiv Sena corporator Kamalakar Jamsandekar in 2007 and sentenced him to life.
A biopic made on the gangster-politician last year titled 'Daddy' saw actor Arjun Rampal essay the role. Agencies
