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 in 2011. 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.
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.
Modh is an adjective often adopted in the surnames of Gujarati people who originate from Modhera in Gujarat.
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.
Vijaybhai Ramniklalbhai Rupani is an Indian politician who served as the 16th Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2016 to 2021 for two terms. He was a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly,representing Rajkot West. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.
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 Thakor Koli,or Thakore Koli,is a subcaste of the Koli caste of Gujarat. Koli people form the largest caste-cluster in Gujarat,comprising 24 per cent of the total population of the state. Koli Thakors in Gujarat are classified as Other Backward Class (OBC). During his tenure,the former chief minister,Koli community member Madhav Singh Solanki,included all Koli communities of Gujarat in the OBC. Koli Thakors are mostly cultivators or small land-owners.
Praful Khoda Patel is an Indian politician who is currently the unelected administrator of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and the union territory of Lakshadweep.
Chandrakant Raghunath Patil,better known as C. R. Patil,is a three-time Member of Parliament elected from Navsari in Gujarat. He is member of the current 17th Lok Sabha of India. Since 2020,he is also the President of BJP Gujarat State unit. He is the first non-Gujarati to hold this position. His name is also spelled C. R. Paatil at times.
The 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Gujarat in December 2012 for all 182 members of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Incumbent Chief Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP),in power since 2002,was running for his fourth term. The leader of the opposition was Shaktisinh Gohil of the Indian National Congress (INC).
The Media in Gujarati language started with publication of Bombay Samachar in 1822. Initially the newspapers published business news and they were owned by Parsi people based in Bombay. Later Gujarati newspapers started published from other parts of Gujarat. Several periodicals devoted to social reforms were published in the second half of the 19th century. After arrival of Mahatma Gandhi,the Indian independence movement peaked and it resulted in proliferation of Gujarati media. Following independence,the media was chiefly focused on political news. After bifurcation of Bombay state,the area of service changed. Later there was an increase in readership due to growth of literacy and the media houses expanded its readership by publishing more editions. Later these media houses ventured into digital media also. The radio and television media expanded after 1990.
Harsh Ramesh Sanghvi is currently Minister of State (MoS) Sports,Youth Service,Co-ordination of voluntary organization,Non-resident Gujaratis’Division,Transport,Gruh Rakshak Dal and Gram Rakshak Dal,Civil Defence,Jail,Border Security,Home and Police Housing,Industries,Cultural Activities In the Gujarat CM Bhupendrabhai Patel’s cabinet. Before sanghvi Pradip Singh Jadeja,Amit Shah,Haren Pandya and Gordhanbhai Zadafia have served as the home minister of Gujarat under the BJP regime. He is a member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly,Majura in Gujarat,India. He was also National Vice President of BJP Yuva Morcha.
Hardik AbhiNandan is a 2016 Gujarati Comedy starring veteran Gujarati actress Ragini Shah and debutant actors Devarshi Shah,Gopal Parmar,Navjot Singh Chauhan in the lead roles as the characters Hardik,Abhi and Nandan respectively. The film is directed by Dev Keshwala and produced by Kamdhenu Entertainments LLP in association with DN Entertainment. Music is composed by Jigardan Gadhavi. Background score of the film is produced by Sameer Phaterpekar.
The Ashadeep Group of Schools is a group of private educational institutions in India,founded in 1997. The Ashadeep Group started its first school in Surat in 1997 and has seven schools located in Surat City in Gujarat state of India.
Jagdish Balar,better known as Jagdish Patel,is a BJP politician from Surat,Gujarat. He was the 36th Mayor of Surat / Surat Municipal Corporation. He is an Ayurvedic practitioner and a trustee of Kiran Hospital,run by Surat Builders and Diamond Traders.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India and has been the ruling party since the 16th Lok Sabha. It was seeking re-election in the 2019 parliamentary election as the leading party of the National Democratic Alliance,with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate and party president Amit Shah as the campaign chief.
Aakar Patel is an Indian journalist,activist and author. He served as the head of Amnesty International in India between 2015 and 2019,and currently serves as the chair of the Board of Amnesty International in India. He is the author of Our Hindu Rashtra,an account of majoritarianism in India,and of Price of the Modi Years,which examines the administrative performance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In 2014,he authored a translation of Saadat Hasan Manto's Urdu non-fiction Why I Write.
Jagdish Ishwarbhai Vishwakarma (Panchal) (born 12 August 1973) is currently the Minister of state,Gujarat. In the new Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel’s cabinet,Jagdish Vishwakarma (Panchal) has been allocated various portfolios. He is an MLA from Nikol constituency in Gujarat for its 14th legislative assembly. He is a state-level minister of Cottage Industries,Co-Operation,Salt Industries,Protocol (Independent Charge),Industries,Road and Building,Forest,Environment And Climate Change,Printing And Stationery (State Minister),Government of Gujarat. He was BJP President of Ahmedabad city and he has served as the Convenor of Udhyog Cell Bharatiya Janata Party Gujarat.
On 18 August 1942,six people died and many more wounded during the Quit India movement at the Adas railway station in Adas village in Kaira district in Bombay Presidency,British India.
