Keshubhai Patel was an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1995 and from 1998 to 2001. He was a six-time member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly. He was a member of RSS since 1940s,of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1960s,Janata Party in 1970s,and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 1980. He subsequently left the BJP in 2012 and formed the Gujarat Parivartan Party. He was elected from Visavadar in the 2012 state assembly election but later resigned in 2014 due to ill health and merged his party with BJP. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan posthumously in 2021.
Shankersinh Laxmansinhji Vaghela is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Gujarat. He was the Leader of Opposition in 13th Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
Navnirman Andolan was a socio-political movement in 1974 in Gujarat by students and middle-class people against economic crisis and corruption in public life. It is the only successful agitation in the history of post-independence India that resulted in dissolution of an elected government of the state.
Vejalpur is a Census Town in the New West Zone of the metropolitan city of Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala is an Indian politician and Minister of Fisheries,Animal Husbandry and Dairying in the Second Modi ministry. He is a member of Rajya Sabha,representing the Indian state of Gujarat and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a former member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Amreli and formerly served as a minister in Government of Gujarat.
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician,who is the current president of the Indian National Congress,and Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 16 February 2021. He became the first person outside the Nehru–Gandhi family to be the president of the party after 24 years. He previously served as Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 16 February 2021 till 1 October 2022. He was formerly the Minister of Railways and Minister of Labour and Employment in the Government of India. Kharge was a Member of Parliament for Gulbarga,Karnataka from 2009 to 2019.
The elections in 2012 were scheduled for seven Vidhan Sabhas and several local elections were also conducted. The 14th presidential election to elect the 13th president of the republic was also held in 2012. The tenure of the legislative assemblies of Goa,Gujarat,Himachal Pradesh,Manipur,Punjab,Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand were to expire during the year. The Election Commission of India issued the dates for the elections in Manipur,Punjab,Uttarakhand,Uttar Pradesh and Goa to take place in the first quarter of the year. Whereas the elections were held in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat in the last quarter of the year.
Shaktisinh Harishchandrasinhji Gohil is an Indian politician. He is a Member of Parliament and a member of the Indian National Congress. He is party in-charge for state affairs of Delhi and Haryana and national spokesperson of All India Congress Committee.
Arjun Modhwadia is an Indian National Congress politician from Porbandar Gujarat,India. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2007. He had been a president of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC),the Gujarat wing of Indian National Congress from 2 March 2011 to 20 December 2012.
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).
Jetpur is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district.
Visavadar is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Junagadh district and a segment of Junagadh Lok Sabha constituency.
Amreli is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.
Lathi is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Amreli district.
Ratubhai Mulshankar Adani is an Indian politician and social activist from Gujarat. He served as a member of legislative assemblies of Saurashtra,Bombay and Gujarat as well as minister in state cabinets of them.
Deep Depression ARB 02 was a weak tropical cyclone which brought heavy rains and flooding to the Indian state of Gujarat in June 2015. It was the third tropical cyclone and second deep depression of the 2015 North Indian Ocean cyclone season.
Hardik Patel is an Indian politician and social activist. He rose to prominence in July 2015,where he led the Patidar reservation agitation that sought Other Backward Class (OBC) status for the Patidar caste.
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.
Kaushik Kantibhai Vekariya is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is currently serving as a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Amreli constituency in the Gujarat Assembly.
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