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.
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.
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.
Chandrakant Raghunath Patil, better known as C. R. Patil, is an Indian Politician who is serving as the 2nd Minister of Jal Shakti since 2024. He is member of the current 18th 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. He is a three-time Member of Parliament elected from Navsari in Gujarat.
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).
Bayad is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.
Limbdi is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Surendranagar district.
Dhrangadhra is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Surendranagar district. After 2008 delimitation, erstwhile Halvad assembly seat was merged with this seat.
Jamnagar Rural is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Jamnagar district.
Lunawada is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Mahisagar district.
Karjan is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Vadodara district.
Dang is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Dang district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes.
Karanj is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Surat district and came into existence after 2008 delimitation.
Starting in July 2015, the people of India's Patidar community, seeking Other Backward Class (OBC) status, held public demonstrations across the Indian state of Gujarat.
Alpesh Thakor is a politician from Gujarat, India. He is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Gandhinagar South. He was earlier a member representing Radhanpur (2017–2019). Formerly associated with the Indian National Congress party, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019. He started his career as a social worker and political activist. He is a leader of the Koli community in Gujarat. He founded the Gujarat Kshatriya Thakor Sena as well as OBC, SC, ST Ekta Manch, a social platform to demand reservations for people of the respective communities, around which a movement took place in Gujarat shortly after the Patidar reservation agitation.
Bhupendra Rajnikant Patel is an Indian politician and civil engineer who is serving as the 17th and current Chief Minister of Gujarat since 2021. He represents the Ghatlodia Assembly constituency in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly since 2017. He is a member of the BJP. He started his political career in municipal bodies of Ahmedabad.
Asha Patel was an Indian politician from Gujarat.
Jagdish Ishwarbhai Patel is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Amraiwadi in the 2019 by election as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. By-elections happen due to Hasmukhbhai Patel elected to Parliament.
Gujarat Legislative Assembly or Gujarat Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Gujarat, in the state capital Gandhinagar. Presently, 182 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from single-member constituencies (seats). It has a term of 5 years unless it is dissolved sooner. 13 constituencies are reserved for scheduled castes and 27 constituencies for scheduled tribes. From its majority party group or by way of a grand coalition cabinet of its prominent members, the state's Executive namely the Government of Gujarat is formed.
