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Oct 29, 2020 · Whatever he has been, Keshubhai Patel, who was twice chief minister of Gujarat (in 1995, for less than a year), and again in 1998, till October 2001, only to be replaced by his long-time bete noire Narendra Modi, allowed his decades-old association with BJP to lapse in 2012 after failing to convince the party high command over what he had called “mini-emergency” prevailing in Gujarat under Modi.
Oct 29, 2020 · Keshubhai subsequently left the BJP in 2012 and formed the Gujarat Parivartan Party. In 2012, he was elected from Visavadar assembly seat but had to resign in 2014 due to ill health. Keshubhai Patel was born in Visavadar town of Junagadh in 1928, Patel joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1945 as a 'pracharak'.
Oct 29, 2020 · Follow us. GANDHINAGAR: Former Gujarat CM Keshubhai Patel passed away in Ahmedabad on Thursday after suffering a heart attack. He was 92. From joining the RSS as a pracharak while in his teens ...
Other articles where Keshubhai Patel is discussed: Narendra Modi: Political ascent and term as chief minister of Gujarat: …chief minister, fellow BJP member Keshubhai Patel, after Patel had been held responsible for the state government’s poor response in the aftermath of the massive Bhuj earthquake in Gujarat earlier that year that killed more than 20,000 people. Modi entered his first-ever electoral contest in a February 2002 by-election that…
Oct 29, 2020 · i. Former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel passed away on Thursday, 29 October, at a private hospital in Ahmedabad. He was 92-years-old. The former BJP leader served as chief minister of ...
Oct 29, 2020 · India News: NEW DELHI: Former chief minister of Gujarat Keshubhai Patel passed away on Thursday post Covid-19 complications.
Oct 29, 2020 · Keshubhai Patel died in Ahmedabad Thursday after prolonged illness. The 92-year-old leader had recovered from Covid-19 recently. Patel was the chief minister of Gujarat in 1995 and again during 1998-2001.
