Anandiben Patel

Anandiben Patel

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Anandiben Patel Profile

  • Name:
  • Anandiben Patel
  • Other Name:
  • Anandiben Jethabhai Patel
  • Born:
  • November 21, 1941
  • Father:
  • Jethabhai Patel
  • Spouse:
  • Mafatlal Patel

Anandiben Patel Biography

Anandiben Patel is the current chief minister of Gujarat. She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party and the first woman chief minister of the state. She served as the state Cabinet Minister of Road and Building, Revenue, Urban development and Urban Housing, Disaster Management and Capital Projects before she was given the responsibility to rule the state of Gujarat. After Narendra Modi was chosen as the Prime Minister candidate of BJP, he resigned the Chief Minister position and handed over the power to the prominent lady politician of the party. She is the only woman politician from Gujarat who has been able to get elected in the state assembly elections for 4 consecutive times.

 
Patel was born on 21 November 1941 in Kharod village of Gujarat. Her father was a farmer. She lived in a village were girls were not allowed to go to school and for the same reason there was no girls’ school in her village. She studied from 5th grade onwards as a single girl in a Boys’ high school in her village. Till 4th grade she studied in a girls’ school. Later she completed her schooling at Nutan Sarv Vidyalay in Visnagar. After graduation she began her social service giving aid to women. She worked with Mahila Vikas Gruh and after marriage she got shifted to Ahmedabad where she completed her post-graduation. She also completed B. Ed and M. Ed earning a gold medal. Later she started her career as a school teacher.


She became Gujarat Pradesh Mahila Morcha President in 1987. She started her political journey as a Member of Rajya Sabha in 1994. In the year 1998, she moved to state assembly and got elected to state assembly for 4 consecutive terms. Anandiben Patel took oath as 15th Chief Minister of Gujarat on 22 May 2014.

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Updated: May 27, 2014

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