Keshubhai Patel was an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1995 and again 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 left the BJP in 2012 and formed the Gujarat Parivartan Party. He was elected from Visavadar in the 2012 state assembly election but 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 Vaghela is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Gujarat from. He was also 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 the 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.
The Bihar movement,also known as the JP movement,was a political movement initiated by students in the Indian state of Bihar against misrule and corruption in the state government. in 1974. It was led by the veteran Gandhian socialist Jayaprakash Narayan,popularly known as JP. The movement later turned against Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government in the central government. It was also referred to as Sampoorna Kranti.
The Indian state of Gujarat was created out of the 17 northern districts of former State of Bombay. The Mahagujarat movement was instrumental in the formation of a separate state,Gujarat. Politics in Gujarat has mostly been dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party with the Indian National Congress being the main opposition since the 1990s. The state has been governed by the BJP since 1998,and is considered a stronghold of the party. In 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election the Aam Aadmi Party emerge as third party.
Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala is an Indian politician and Minister of Fisheries,Animal Husbandry and Dairying in the Second Modi ministry. He was elected to 18th Lok Sabha from Rajkot. He was 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.
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 was as appointed president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee in June 2023,in run up to 2024 general election.
Arjun Modhwadia is a former 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).
Jagdish Thakor is an Indian National Congress politician from Gujarat,India. He was the member of 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Patan constituency of Gujarat. Thakor belongs to the Koli community of Gujarat.
Jetpur is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Rajkot district.
Dhari is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Amreli district,and is a segment of Amreli 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.
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.
Legislative Assembly elections were 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 the Legislative Assembly from the Amreli constituency in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
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