Keshubhai Patel
| Keshubhai Patel | |
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| 10th Chief Minister of Gujarat | |
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In office 14 March 1995 – 21 October 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Chhabildas Mehta |
| Succeeded by | Suresh Mehta |
| Constituency | Visavadar |
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In office 4 March 1998 – 6 October 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Dilip Parikh |
| Succeeded by | Narendra Modi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 July 1928 Visavadar |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party |
Bharatiya Janata Party (1980–2012) Gujarat Parivartan Party (2012 – 2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Leela Patel |
| Children | Five sons, one daughter |
| Net worth |
 US$5.1 billion |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| As of 17 February, 2014 | |
Keshubhai Patel (born 24 July 1928) is an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat state of India in 1995 and from 1998 to 2001. He has been member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly six times. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the 1980s. He subsequently left the BJP in 2012 and formed the Gujarat Parivartan Party. He was elected from Visavadar in the 2012 assembly election but later resigned in 2014 due to ill health.
Keshubhai Savdas Patel is born on 24 July 1928 in Visavadar town of present Junagadh district, Gujarat. He joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1945 as a pracharak. He was imprisoned during the emergency.
He started his political career as a worker for the Jan Sangh in 1960s. He was a founding member of it. In 1975, the Jan Sangh-Congress(O) coalition came to power in Gujarat.
After the emergency, he was elected to Lok Sabha from Rajkot constituency in 1977. Later he resigned and joined Babubhai Patel's Janata Morcha government as an agriculture minister in 1978 to 1980. He was then involved in relief work following 1979 Machchhu dam failure which devastated Morbi.
He won assembly elections from Kalavad, Gondal and Visavadar between 1978 and 1995. In 1980, when Jan Sangh was dissolved and he became senior organizer of newly formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He organized the election campaign against Congress (I) and led BJP to win in 1995 assembly election.
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