Ahmedabad heart of Gujarat, has given India Great leaders.
Key takeaways:
- Ahmedabad has given the country 2 Prime Ministers and 2 Deputy Prime Ministers.
- Gujarat has given India Great leaders.
Ahmedabad has given the country 2 Prime Ministers, 2 Deputy Prime Ministers, 1 Home Minister, 1 Finance Minister and 3 Chief Ministers to Gujarat. Sardar Patel, the country’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, won the Daryapur by-election in 1917 by one vote and entered active public life. He became the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister on Independence Day.
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee contested Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar in 1996. At that time, a large area of Ahmedabad was in Gandhinagar. LK Advani, who examined the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar, was the Deputy Prime Minister in the Vajpayee government. Harin Pathak, a corporator from 1975-92, was given a direct ticket by the BJP in 1989 for the Lok Sabha elections. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Minister of State for Defence.
Modi, CM for 13 years and PM for eight years,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi contested elections twice from Ahmedabad (Maninagar). After serving as the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014, he resigned from the post of Chief Minister for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and contested from the Vadodara and Varanasi Lok Sabha seats, becoming the country’s first Gujarati Prime Minister.
Shah first contested the post of Home Minister from
Amit Shah Sarkhej in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2007, after which the BJP gave him a ticket from Naranpura in 2012. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he first contested from Gandhinagar for the first time and got the position of Union Home Minister in Modi’s second term.
Magan Barot of Congress was Finance Minister
In 1980, senior Congress leader Magan Barot was made Finance Minister when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister. So far, only Magan Barot of Congress, who contested from Ahmedabad, could become a minister at the Centre.
Ahmedabad gave 3 Chief Ministers to the state.
In 2001 Keshubhai Patel was replaced by Narendra Modi. First, he contested from Rajkot-2, then won twice from Maninagar. In 2014, when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, Anandiben Patel was made the Chief Minister. Now Bhupendra Patel has won for the second time from Ghatlodia.
