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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">10th <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Gujarat" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Gujarat">Chief Minister of Gujarat</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />4 March 1998 – 6 October 2001</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dilip_Parikh" title="Dilip Parikh">Dilip Parikh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />14 March 1995 – 21 October 1995</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chhabildas_Mehta" title="Chhabildas Mehta">Chhabildas Mehta</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Mehta" title="Suresh Mehta">Suresh Mehta</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_deputy_chief_ministers_of_Gujarat" title="List of deputy chief ministers of Gujarat">3rd Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />4 March 1990 – 25 October 1990</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Chief Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chimanbhai_Patel" title="Chimanbhai Patel">Chimanbhai Patel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kantilal_Ghia" title="Kantilal Ghia">Kantilal Ghia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Narhari_Amin" title="Narhari Amin">Narhari Amin</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1977–1980</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ghanshyambhai_Oza" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghanshyambhai Oza">Ghanshyambhai Oza</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ramjibhai Mavani</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rajkot_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajkot (Lok Sabha constituency)">Rajkot</a>, Gujarat</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Rajya_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha">Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />10 April 2002 – 9 April 2008</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Rajya_Sabha_members_from_Gujarat" title="List of Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat">Gujarat</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Irrigation Minister, <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Gujarat" title="Government of Gujarat">Government of Gujarat</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1978–1980</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rajkot" title="Rajkot">Rajkot</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Legislative_Assembly_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Legislative Assembly (India)">Member</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gujarat_Legislative_Assembly" title="Gujarat Legislative Assembly">Gujarat Legislative Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1990–1995</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>constituency established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mohanbhai_Kundariya" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohanbhai Kundariya">Mohanbhai Kundariya</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tankara_Assembly_constituency" title="Tankara Assembly constituency">Tankara, Rajkot</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1928-07-24</span>)</span>24 July 1928<br /><a href="/wiki/Visavadar" title="Visavadar">Visavadar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Junagadh_State" title="Junagadh State">Junagadh State</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">29 October 2020<span style="display:none">(2020-10-29)</span> (aged 92)<br /><a href="/wiki/Ahmedabad" title="Ahmedabad">Ahmedabad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>, India</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Jana_Sangh" title="Bharatiya Jana Sangh">Bharatiya Jana Sangh</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1951–1977)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Janata_Party" title="Janata Party">Janata Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1977–1980)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1980–2012, 2014–2020)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Gujarat_Parivartan_Party" title="Gujarat Parivartan Party">Gujarat Parivartan Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2012 – 2014)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Leela Patel (m. ?-2006)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">6</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> (2021; posthumously)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Keshubhai Patel</b> (24 July 1928 – 29 October 2020) was an Indian politician who was the <a href="/wiki/Chief_Minister_of_Gujarat" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Minister of Gujarat">Chief Minister of Gujarat</a> in 1995 and again from 1998 to 2001. He was a six-time member of <a href="/wiki/Gujarat_Legislative_Assembly" title="Gujarat Legislative Assembly">Gujarat Legislative Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a member of RSS since 1940s, of Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1960s, Janata Party in 1970s, and the <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> (BJP) from 1980. He left the BJP in 2012 and formed the <a href="/wiki/Gujarat_Parivartan_Party" title="Gujarat Parivartan Party">Gujarat Parivartan Party</a>. He was elected from <a href="/wiki/Visavadar_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visavadar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Visavadar</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2012_Gujarat_legislative_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Gujarat legislative assembly election">2012 state assembly election</a> but resigned in 2014 due to ill health and merged his party with BJP. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> posthumously in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keshubhai_Patel&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Keshubhai Patel was born on 24 July 1928 as Keshubhai Desai in a Leuva <a href="/wiki/Patidar" title="Patidar">Patidar</a> family in <a href="/wiki/Visavadar" title="Visavadar">Visavadar</a> town in the present day <a href="/wiki/Junagadh_district" title="Junagadh district">Junagadh district</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>. His family is said to have migrated from Vaso village in <a href="/wiki/Nadiad" title="Nadiad">Nadiad</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kheda" title="Kheda">Kheda</a> district, a village of Patidars, where revenue clerks were known as '<a href="/wiki/Desai" title="Desai">Desai</a>'. The family migrated to <a href="/wiki/Saurashtra_(region)" title="Saurashtra (region)">Saurashtra</a> and ran a flour mill in Rajkot. <a href="/wiki/Jana_Sangh" class="mw-redirect" title="Jana Sangh">Jana Sangh</a> veterans like former chief minister <a href="/wiki/Shankersinh_Vaghela" title="Shankersinh Vaghela">Shankersinh Vaghela</a>, who knew Keshubhai for 55 years, says he ran this mill in Hathikhana area of <a href="/wiki/Rajkot" title="Rajkot">Rajkot</a> for a living, and described him as a "self-made" man who built the party from scratch. Patel told <i><a href="/wiki/The_Indian_Express" title="The Indian Express">The Indian Express</a></i> in 2015 that "Many Patels from <a href="/wiki/Amreli" title="Amreli">Amreli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Junagadh" title="Junagadh">Junagadh</a> are Desais––clerks who collected taxes from land owners and were found in the tiny state of Vaso near <a href="/wiki/Nadiad" title="Nadiad">Nadiad</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Saurashtra_(state)" title="Saurashtra (state)">Saurashtra</a>. Throughout school, I was Keshubhai Desai, till our Junagadh leader <a href="/wiki/Suryakant_Acharya" title="Suryakant Acharya">Suryakant Acharya</a> [a former BJP MP] began to refer to me as 'Keshubhai Patel' in public, and the name stuck". In <a href="/wiki/Rajkot" title="Rajkot">Rajkot</a>, he went to Alfred High School, which is also <a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>'s alma mater.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He joined the <a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh" title="Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh">Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh</a> (RSS) in 1945 as a <i>pracharak</i>. He was imprisoned during <a href="/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)" title="The Emergency (India)">the Emergency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bkp_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bkp-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keshubhai_Patel&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Patel began his journey in electoral politics by contesting in the <a href="/wiki/Rajkot" title="Rajkot">Rajkot</a> municipality and later <a href="/wiki/Rajkot_Municipal_Corporation" title="Rajkot Municipal Corporation">Rajkot Municipal Corporation</a>. He started his political career as a worker for the <a href="/wiki/Jan_Sangh" class="mw-redirect" title="Jan Sangh">Jan Sangh</a>, of which was he was a founder member, in the 1960s. He lost the <a href="/wiki/Gujarat_Vidhan_Sabha" class="mw-redirect" title="Gujarat Vidhan Sabha">Gujarat Vidhan Sabha</a> election in 1972 from <a href="/wiki/Wankaner_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wankaner (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Wankaner (Vidhan Sabha constituency)</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Congress</a>. In 1975, he won from the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rajkot_Vidhan_Sabha_Constituency&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rajkot Vidhan Sabha Constituency (page does not exist)">Rajkot Vidhan Sabha Constituency</a> and became minister for irrigation from 1978 to 1980 in the BJS-backed government of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress_(Organisation)" title="Indian National Congress (Organisation)">Indian National Congress (Organisation)</a>, popularly called the Sanstha Congress, led by Chief Minister <a href="/wiki/Babubhai_Jashbhai_Patel" class="mw-redirect" title="Babubhai Jashbhai Patel">Babubhai Jashbhai Patel</a>. During the Emergency, Patel was among the 3,500 people from Gujarat to be jailed under the draconian <a href="/wiki/Maintenance_of_Internal_Security_Act" title="Maintenance of Internal Security Act">Maintenance of Internal Security Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was involved in relief work following the <a href="/wiki/1979_Machchhu_dam_failure" title="1979 Machchhu dam failure">1979 Machchhu dam failure</a> which devastated <a href="/wiki/Morbi" title="Morbi">Morbi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-iex_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iex-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Patel won assembly elections for the constituencies of Rajkot (1975), Gondal (1980), Kalavad (1985), Tankara (1990), and <a href="/wiki/Visavadar_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Visavadar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)">Visavadar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)</a> (1995, 1998, 2012) between 1975 and 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-bkp_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bkp-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1980, when Jan Sangh was dissolved, he became a senior organiser of the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a> (BJP). Patel was <a href="/wiki/List_of_Deputy_Chief_Ministers_of_Gujarat" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Gujarat">Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat</a> from 4 March 1990 to 25 October 1990 under <a href="/wiki/Chimanbhai_Patel" title="Chimanbhai Patel">Chimanbhai Patel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He organized the 1995 assembly election campaign for the BJP against <a href="/wiki/Congress_(I)" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress (I)">Congress (I)</a>, which the party won.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patel became the chief minister of Gujarat on 14 March 1995 but resigned seven months later as his colleague <a href="/wiki/Shankersinh_Vaghela" title="Shankersinh Vaghela">Shankersinh Vaghela</a> revolted against him. <a href="/wiki/Suresh_Mehta" title="Suresh Mehta">Suresh Mehta</a> succeeded him as a consensus chief minister. BJP was split as the <a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Janata_Party" title="Rashtriya Janata Party">Rashtriya Janata Party</a> (RJP) was formed by Vaghela who became the chief minister in October 1996 with support of the Congress (I). The assembly was dissolved in 1998 when Congress (I) withdrew its support for the RJP. The BJP, led by Patel, returned to power in the <a href="/wiki/1998_Gujarat_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="1998 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election">1998 assembly elections</a> and he became the chief minister again on 4 March 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-bkp_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bkp-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Patel resigned as the chief minister on 2 October 2001 due to poor health. Allegations of abuse of power, corruption and poor administration, as well as a loss of BJP seats in <a href="/wiki/By-elections" class="mw-redirect" title="By-elections">by-elections</a> and mismanagement of relief works in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/2001_Gujarat_earthquake" title="2001 Gujarat earthquake">2001 Bhuj earthquake</a>, prompted the BJP's national leadership to seek a new candidate for the office of chief minister. He was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patel did not contest the <a href="/wiki/2002_Gujarat_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2002 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election">2002 Gujarat assembly election</a> but was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a> unopposed in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-Rediff_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rediff-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2007_Gujarat_Legislative_Assembly_election" title="2007 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election">2007 Gujarat assembly elections</a>, he urged his community to vote for change. He "blessed" the <a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a> (formerly Congress (I)) and did not even cast his vote. The BJP again won the election with a clear majority and formed a government led by Modi.<sup id="cite_ref-Rediff_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rediff-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patel did not renew his BJP membership,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> resigned from the BJP on 4 August 2012 and launched the <a href="/wiki/Gujarat_Parivartan_Party" title="Gujarat Parivartan Party">Gujarat Parivartan Party</a> (GPP) to contest the <a href="/wiki/2012_Gujarat_legislative_assembly_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Gujarat legislative assembly election">2012 Gujarat legislative assembly election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won a seat in the Visavadar constituency against the BJP candidate Kanubhai Bhalala, although his party GPP won just one other seat.<sup id="cite_ref-bharat_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bharat-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patel resigned from the post of president of GPP in January 2014 and later resigned as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Gujarat_Legislative_Assembly" title="Gujarat Legislative Assembly">Gujarat Legislative Assembly</a> due to ill health on 13 February 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, GPP merged with BJP on 24 February 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keshubhai_Patel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Patel married Leela Patel and had five sons and a daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-iex_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iex-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son, Bharat Patel, is a member of BJP.<sup id="cite_ref-iex_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iex-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bharat_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bharat-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leela Patel died in their home in <a href="/wiki/Gandhinagar" title="Gandhinagar">Gandhinagar</a> after an electrical fire broke out in the exercise room on 21 September 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 9 September 2017, Patel's 60-year-old son, Pravin Patel, living in the US, died of <a href="/wiki/Cardiac_arrest" title="Cardiac arrest">cardiac arrest</a> .<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Keshubhai Patel tested positive for <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> in September 2020 but apparently recovered after the initial infection. However, he complained of difficulty breathing on the morning of 29 October 2020. 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V. Doshi">B. V. Doshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishnammal_Jagannathan" title="Krishnammal Jagannathan">Krishnammal Jagannathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._C._Jamir" title="S. C. Jamir">S. C. Jamir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Prakash_Joshi" title="Anil Prakash Joshi">Anil Prakash Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsering_Landol" title="Tsering Landol">Tsering Landol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anand_Mahindra" title="Anand Mahindra">Anand Mahindra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._R._Madhava_Menon" title="N. R. Madhava Menon">N. R. Madhava Menon</a><sup>#</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Madhukarnath" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Madhukarnath">Sri Madhukarnath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manohar_Parrikar" title="Manohar Parrikar">Manohar Parrikar</a><sup>#</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagdish_Sheth" title="Jagdish Sheth">Jagdish Sheth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._V._Sindhu" title="P. V. Sindhu">P. V. Sindhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venu_Srinivasan" title="Venu Srinivasan">Venu Srinivasan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K._S._Chithra" title="K. S. Chithra">K. S. Chithra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarun_Gogoi" title="Tarun Gogoi">Tarun Gogoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrashekhara_Kambara" title="Chandrashekhara Kambara">Chandrashekhara Kambara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumitra_Mahajan" title="Sumitra Mahajan">Sumitra Mahajan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nripendra_Misra" title="Nripendra Misra">Nripendra Misra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan">Ram Vilas Paswan</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Keshubhai Patel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalbe_Sadiq" title="Kalbe Sadiq">Kalbe Sadiq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajnikant_Shroff" title="Rajnikant Shroff">Rajnikant Devidas Shroff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarlochan_Singh" title="Tarlochan Singh">Tarlochan Singh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2022</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Nabi_Azad" title="Ghulam Nabi Azad">Ghulam Nabi Azad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Banerjee" title="Victor Banerjee">Victor Banerjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurmeet_Bawa" title="Gurmeet Bawa">Gurmeet Bawa</a><sup>#</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhadeb_Bhattacharjee" title="Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natarajan_Chandrasekaran" title="Natarajan Chandrasekaran">Natarajan Chandrasekaran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishna_Ella" title="Krishna Ella">Krishna Ella</a></li> <li>Suchitra Ella</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhur_Jaffrey" title="Madhur Jaffrey">Madhur Jaffrey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devendra_Jhajharia" title="Devendra Jhajharia">Devendra Jhajharia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashid_Khan_(musician)" title="Rashid Khan (musician)">Rashid Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrishi" title="Rajiv Mehrishi">Rajiv Mehrishi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satya_Nadella" title="Satya Nadella">Satya Nadella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundar_Pichai" title="Sundar Pichai">Sundar Pichai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_S._Poonawalla" title="Cyrus S. Poonawalla">Cyrus Poonawalla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjaya_Rajaram" title="Sanjaya Rajaram">Sanjaya Rajaram</a><sup>#</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratibha_Ray" title="Pratibha Ray">Pratibha Ray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Sachchidanand" title="Swami Sachchidanand">Swami Sachchidanand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vashishth_Tripathi" title="Vashishth Tripathi">Vashishth Tripathi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2023</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kumar_Mangalam_Birla" title="Kumar Mangalam Birla">Kumar Mangalam Birla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._L._Bhyrappa" title="S. L. Bhyrappa">S. L. Bhyrappa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deepak_Dhar" title="Deepak Dhar">Deepak Dhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vani_Jairam" title="Vani Jairam">Vani Jairam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinna_Jeeyar" title="Chinna Jeeyar">Chinna Jeeyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suman_Kalyanpur" title="Suman Kalyanpur">Suman Kalyanpur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapil_Kapoor" title="Kapil Kapoor">Kapil Kapoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudha_Murty" title="Sudha Murty">Sudha Murty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamlesh_Patel_(Daaji)" title="Kamlesh Patel (Daaji)">Kamlesh D Patel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div># Posthumous conferral <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1954%E2%80%931959)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)">1954–1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1960%E2%80%931969)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–1969)">1960–1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1970%E2%80%931979)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–1979)">1970–1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1980%E2%80%931989)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–1989)">1980–1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1990%E2%80%931999)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1990–1999)">1990–1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2000%E2%80%932009)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)">2000–2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2010%E2%80%932019)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)">2010–2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2020%E2%80%932029)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)">2020–2029</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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