Daman and Diu is a union territory in northwestern India. With an area of 112 km2 (43 sq mi), it was the smallest administrative subdivision of India on the mainland. The territory comprised two districts, Daman and Diu island, geographically separated by the Gulf of Khambat. The state of Gujarat and the Arabian Sea bordered the territory. A Portuguese colony since the 1500s, the territories were taken by India with the Annexation of Goa in 1961. Daman and Diu were administered as part of the union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu between 1961 and 1987. After the Goa Opinion Poll, they became a separate union territory. In 2019, legislation was passed to merge the union territory of Daman and Diu with its neighbouring union territory, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, to form the new union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu with effect from 26 January 2020.
Goa, Daman and Diu was a union territory of the Republic of India established in 1961 following the annexation of Portuguese India, with Maj Gen K P Candeth as its first Military Governor. The Goa portion of the territory was granted full statehood within the Indian union on 30 May 1987, Daman and Diu remained a separate territory until December 2019, when it was merged with Dadra and Nagar Haveli and is today the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Daman district, is one of four districts of the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is located on the west coast of India and is surrounded by the Valsad district of the Gujarat state to the north, east and south, and by the Arabian Sea to the west. The district covers an area of 72 square kilometers and had a population of 191,173 as of the 2011 census, an increase of 69.256% from the 2001 census. The district headquarters is Daman. Previously, the territorial headquarters were in Panjim when it was jointly administered as Goa, Daman, and Diu until the time of the Konkani language agitation.
Dahyabhai V. Patel was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha and 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Daman and Diu constituency and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.
General elections were held in India between 19 and 25 February 1962 to elect members of the third Lok Sabha. Unlike the previous two elections, each constituency elected a single member.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha constituency is one of the two Lok Sabha constituencies in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. This constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes.
Lalubhai Babubhaiji Patel is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament from Daman and Diu Lok Sabha constituency as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution Act, 1961, incorporated Dadra and Nagar Haveli as the seventh Union territory of India, by amending the First Schedule to the Constitution. It also amended clause (1) of article 240 of the Constitution to include therein the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in order to enable the President to "make regulations for the peace, progress and good government of the territory". The 10th Amendment retroactively came into effect on 11 August 1961.
Praful Khoda Patel is an Indian politician, who is currently the administrator of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and the union territory of Lakshadweep.
The Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution Act, 1962, incorporated Goa, Daman and Diu as the eighth Union territory of India, by amending the First Schedule to the Constitution. India acquired control of Goa, Daman and Diu from Portugal in December 1961. The amendment also amended clause (1) of article 240 of the Constitution to include therein these territories in order to enable the President to "make regulations for the peace, progress and good government of the territory".
Raghu Sharma is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress, who has served as the AICC in-charge of party affairs in Gujarat, Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli resigned in December 2022 and has also served as the Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan from 2018 to 2021. He was the Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Kekri constituency, Ajmer district.
Dadra is associated with the Hindustani classical music of the Indian subcontinent.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is a union territory in India. The territory was constituted through the merger of the former territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Plans for the proposed merger were announced by the Government of India in July 2019; the necessary legislation was passed in the Parliament of India in December 2019 and came into effect on 26 January 2020. The territory is made up of four separate geographical entities: Dadra, Nagar Haveli, Daman, and the island of Diu. All four areas were formerly part of Portuguese India, with a joint capital at Panjim, Goa. They came under Indian rule in the mid-20th century after the Annexation of Goa and of the Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Goa, Daman and Diu were jointly administered until 1987, when Goa was granted statehood after the Konkani language agitation. The current capital is Daman and Silvassa is the largest city.
Kalaben Mohanbhai Delkar is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament from Dadra and Nagar Haveli parliamentary constituency in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. She is the first woman Member of Parliament from Dadra and Nagar Haveli as well as the first Shiv Sena MP outside Maharastra.
The first elections to the Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly were held in December 1963, to elect members of the 30 constituencies, in the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu, India.
The 2024 Indian general election was held in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu on 7 May 2024 to elect two members of the 18th Lok Sabha. These elections are the first to take place in the union territory after it was formed on 2020 with the merger of the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
Umeshbhai Babubhai Patel is an Indian politician. He won the Lok Sabha elections from Daman and Diu in 2024.
George Vaz was an Indian freedom fighter, trade unionist and politician.
