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Kantilal Ghia | |
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| 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat | |
| In office 18 July 1973 –17 February 1974 | |
| Constituency | Rakhial |
Kantilal Ghia was a leader of the Indian National Congress from Gujarat. He was the first deputy chief minister in Government of Gujarat in the early 1970s.
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about 1,600 km (990 mi) is the longest in the country,most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area,covering some 196,024 km2 (75,685 sq mi);and the ninth-most populous state,with a population of 60.4 million. It is bordered by Rajasthan to the northeast,Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the south,Maharashtra to the southeast,Madhya Pradesh to the east,and the Arabian Sea and the Pakistani province of Sindh to the west. Gujarat's capital city is Gandhinagar,while its largest city is Ahmedabad. The Gujaratis are indigenous to the state and their language,Gujarati,is the state's official language.
Gandhinagar is the capital of the state of Gujarat in India. Gandhinagar is located approximately 23 km north of Ahmedabad,on the west central point of the Industrial corridor between the metropolitan cities of Delhi and Mumbai.
Ahmedabad is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 makes it the fifth-most populous city in India,and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India. Ahmedabad is located near the banks of the Sabarmati River,25 km (16 mi) from the capital of Gujarat,Gandhinagar,also known as its twin city.
Surat is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means face in Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea,it used to be a large seaport. It is now the commercial and economic center in South Gujarat,and one of the largest urban areas of western India. It has well-established diamond and textile industry,and is a major supply centre for apparels and accessories. About 90% of the world's diamonds supply are cut and polished in the city. It is the second largest city in Gujarat after Ahmedabad and the eighth largest city by population and ninth largest urban agglomeration in India. It is the administrative capital of the Surat district. In recent years,Surat has been in news for making a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering for a yoga session at one place where 1.53 lakh people joined the event on International Yoga Day.
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the 14th prime minister of India since May 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister from outside the Indian National Congress.
Vadodara,also known as Baroda,is a major city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River,141 km (88 mi) from the state capital of Gandhinagar. The railway line and National Highway 8,which connect Delhi with Mumbai,pass through Vadodara. The city is named for its abundance of banyan (vad) trees. Vadodara is also locally referred to as the Sanskari Nagari and Kala Nagari of India.
The 2001 Gujarat earthquake,also known as the Bhuj earthquake,occurred on 26 January at 08:46 am IST. The epicentre was about 9 km south-southwest of the village of Chobari in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District of Gujarat,India.
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The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India. The university is an affiliating university at the under-graduate level and a teaching university at the post graduate level. It is accredited B++ by NAAC. It was established on 23 November 1949.
The 2002 Gujarat riots,also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence,was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002,which caused the deaths of 58 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya,is cited as having instigated the violence. Following the initial riot incidents,there were further outbreaks of violence in Ahmedabad for three months;statewide,there were further outbreaks of violence against the minority Muslim population of Gujarat for the next year.
The Gujarat Sultanate,or the Sultanate of Guzerat,was a late medieval Indian kingdom established in the early 15th century in Western India,primarily in the present-day state of Gujarat,India. The kingdom was founded by Muzaffar Shah I who was appointed as Tughlaq governor of Gujarat after the death of his father in 1371. Following Timur's invasion of the Delhi Sultanate,Delhi was devastated and its rule weakened considerably,so he declared himself independent in 1407,and formally established the Sultanate. The next sultan,his grandson Ahmad Shah I moved the capital to Ahmedabad in 1411. His successor Muhammad Shah II subdued most Rajput chieftains. The prosperity of the sultanate reached its zenith during the rule of Mahmud Begada. He also subdued most Gujarati Rajput chieftains and built a navy off the coast of Diu. In 1509,the Portuguese empire wrested Diu from the Sultanate in the Battle of Diu (1509). The Mughal emperor Humayun attacked Gujarat in 1535 and briefly occupied it,during which Bombay,Bassein &Daman would become a Portuguese colony,thereafter Bahadur Shah was killed by the Portuguese while making a deal in 1537. The end of the sultanate came in 1573,when Akbar annexed Sultanate of Guzerat into his empire. The last ruler Muzaffar Shah III was taken a prisoner to Agra. In 1583,he escaped from the prison and with the help of the nobles succeeded to regain the throne for a short period before being defeated by Akbar's minister Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan.
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The economy of Gujarat,a state in Western India,has significant agricultural as well as industrial production within India. Major agricultural produce of the state includes cotton,groundnuts (peanuts),dates,sugar cane,milk and milk products. Gujarat recorded the lowest unemployment rate in India in 2015,with 1.2% of the labour force being unemployed.
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Amit Anil Chandra Shah is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 31st Minister of Home Affairs since 2019 and the 1st Minister of Co-operation of India since 2021. He served as the 10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament,Lok Sabha,in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier,he had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament,Rajya Sabha,from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019.
The Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue,with a height of 182 metres,located near Kevadia in the state of Gujarat,India. It depicts Indian statesman and independence activist Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950),who was the first deputy prime minister and home minister of independent India and an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi. Patel is highly respected for his leadership in uniting 562 princely states of India to form the single Union of India. The statue is located in Gujarat on the Narmada River in the Kevadiya colony,facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast of the city of Vadodara.
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Legislative Assembly election was held in Gujarat from 1 to 5 December 2022 in two phases,to elect 182 members of 15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 8 December 2022.