Prabhudas Khushaldas Patel was an Indian independence activist, politician, administrator, agriculturist and a pioneer of the cooperative movement in India. He was the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in the Government of India and a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Dabhoi in Gujarat.
Patel was born in 1914 in Alindra, Kheda district, Bombay Presidency to an agriculturist family. He completed his inter-arts education from Baroda College (now the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda).
Patel was a member of the Indian National Congress and, in 1947-48, was appointed as the first secretary of the Baroda District Congress Committee. He played an active role in district, state and eventually national level politics. He resigned from the Indian National Congress due to certain internal differences and joined the Swatantra Party for a brief period. However, after the split of the Indian National Congress in 1969, Patel joined the Indian National Congress (R) (later Indian National Congress (I)).
Patel was elected to the 5th Lok Sabha from Dabhoi in Gujarat in 1971. [1] In October 1974, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in the Government of India headed by Indira Gandhi.
However, he resigned from this position and the primary membership of the Indian National Congress (I) in 1977 to protest the Indian Emergency and the internal workings of the party. [2] He was thereafter associated the Janata Party, a party primarily formed to oppose the Indian Emergency, and contested the 1980 Lok Sabha elections from Baroda against the Indian National Congress, which he lost.
Patel was married to Smt. Savitaben Patel and has two sons and one daughter. [1]
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India.
Chaudhary Charan Singh, better known as Charan Singh was an Indian politician and a freedom fighter. Singh was principally known for his land and agricultural reform initiatives. He briefly served as the 5th prime minister of India from July 1979 to August 1979 and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Baghpat. During prime ministership he was a member of the Janata Party (Secular). He served as 5th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bhartiya Kranti Dal. He also briefly served as deputy prime minister of India from January 1979 to July 1979 as a member of the Janata Party. Singh is widely regarded as the "Champion of farmers", after his life has been dedicated to advocating for the wellbeing and rights of farmers.
The Janata Party is an unrecognized political party in India. It was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian National Congress. In the 1977 general election, the party defeated the Congress and Janata leader Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress prime minister in independent modern India's history.
The Indian National Congress (Organisation) also known as Congress (O) or Syndicate/Old Congress was a political party in India formed when the Congress party split following the expulsion of Indira Gandhi.
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.
Hirubhai Mulljibhai Patel CIE was an Indian civil servant who played a major role in the issues regarding internal and national security in the first years after the independence of India. From 1977 to 1979, he served as the Finance Minister and later Home Minister of India. He was also the chairman of the Charutar Vidya Mandal, which founded Vallabh Vidyapith that was later on named as Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
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.
Ahmedbhai Muhamedbhai Patel, also known as Ahmed Patel, was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from the Indian National Congress. He was the political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
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.
Chimanbhai Patel was an Indian politician associated with Indian National Congress and Janata Dal, and a former Chief Minister of Gujarat state in India representing both those parties at various times. Patel is known as the founder of Kokam Theory which was initiated to counter the Kham Theory of Indian National Congress and it was very successful in Saurashtra and South Gujarat to achieve the huge support from Kolis which were 24% of the state population.
Raj Narain was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He won in a famous electoral malpractice case against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, which led to her disqualification and imposition of Emergency in India in 1975. He defeated Indira Gandhi during the 1977 Lok Sabha elections.
The Baroda dynamite case is the term used for the criminal case launched by the Indian government under Indira Gandhi during the Emergency against the opposition leader George Fernandes and 24 others.
Vidya Charan Shukla was an Indian politician whose political career spanned six decades. He was predominantly a member of the Indian National Congress, but also had spells in Jan Morcha, Janata Dal, Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), Nationalist Congress Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. He was known as a close associate of Indira Gandhi.
General elections were held in India between 16 and 20 March 1977 to elect the members of the sixth Lok Sabha. The elections took place during the Emergency period, which expired on 21 March 1977, shortly before the final results were announced.
General elections were held in India on 3 and 6 January 1980 to elect the members of the 7th Lok Sabha. The Janata Party alliance came into power in the 1977 general elections amidst public anger with the Indian National Congress (R) and the Emergency. However, its position was weak; the loose coalition barely held on to a majority with only 295 seats in the Lok Sabha and never quite had a firm grip on power. Bharatiya Lok Dal leaders Charan Singh and Jagjivan Ram, who had quit the Congress, were members of the Janata alliance but were at loggerheads with Prime Minister Morarji Desai.
Kapadvanj was a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Gujarat in Kheda district. It was abolished in 2009.
Godhra was a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Gujarat, India. Most of its area is now covered by the Panchmahal Lok Sabha constituency, after the 2008 delimitation.
Virendra Verma was an Indian politician, born in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh. He served as the Governor of Punjab and the Administrator of Chandigarh (1990) as well as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh (1990–1993).
Shantilal Purshottamdas Patel was an Indian politician from Gujarat. He served as deputy minister in the Ministry of Commerce in Chandra Shekhar cabinet. He was member of Lok Sabha from Godhra in Gujarat, India.
Manibhai Jaberbhai Patel (1920-1996) was an Indian industrialist, writer, politician and a member of the 4th Lok Sabha. He represented Damoh Lok Sabha constituency from 1967 and was a member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly for two terms, from 1957–62 and 1962–67. He was the author of a number of books which included Nehru Vani, Janata ke Jawahar, Shantidoot Shastriji, Shreemati Indira Gandhi, Panchayaten Aur Humara Dayitwa and Pagdandiyon ki Awaz. The Government of India awarded him Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award, in 1971.
 | This article needs additional or more specific categories .(July 2021) |