Suresh Mehta

Suresh Mehta

11th Chief Minister of Gujarat
In office 21 October 1995 – 19 September 1996
Preceded by	Keshubhai Patel
Succeeded by	President's rule
Personal details
Born	August 18, 1947
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party (till 2007) Gujarat Parivartan Party (2007-2014)
Religion	Hindu

Suresh Mehta is a politician and the former chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat from 1995 to 1996.

Political career

He hails from Kutch region of Gujarat. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Keshubhai Patel led the BJP to win in the 1995 assembly election and became chief minister in March. He served as a minister under Keshubhai Patel. Patel resigned in October 1995 as their colleague Shankersinh Vaghela revolted against him. Consequently, Suresh Mehta was sworn in as Chief Minister in October 1995 and served till September 1996. But the BJP was split as the Rashtriya Janta Party was formed by Vaghela. He resigned and President's rule was imposed. He again served as an industry minister under Patel when the BJP returned to power in the 1998 assembly elections. Patel resigned in 2001 following allegations of a loss of BJP seats in by-elections and mismanagement in relief woks during the aftermath of the Bhuj earthquake. Narendra Modi succeeded Patel under whom Mehta had reservations to serve as a minister but served until 2002.^[1] He opposed leadership of Narendra Modi and quit BJP on December 8, 2007 before Gujarat legislative assembly election, 2007.^[2] Later he joined Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) founded by former chief minister Keshubhai Patel.^[3] He opposed decision when GPP merged with BJP again in February, 2014 and left the party.^[4]^[5]

References

↑ "I won't join his ministry, says Suresh Mehta". The Times of India. 2001-10-03. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
↑ "Suresh Mehta quits BJP". The Hindu. 2007-12-09. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
↑ http://www.dailypioneer.com/sunday-edition/sunday-pioneer/nation/keshubhai-may-step-down-as-gpp-chief.html
↑ "Gujarat Parivartan Party merges with BJP". Niticentral.
↑ "Keshubhai Patel's Gujarat Parivartan Party merges with BJP". Jagran.

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Chief Ministers of Gujarat

Jivraj Narayan Mehta Balwantrai Mehta Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai Ghanshyam Oza Chimanbhai Patel Babubhai J. Patel Madhav Singh Solanki Amarsinh Chaudhary Chhabildas Mehta Keshubhai Patel Suresh Mehta Shankersinh Vaghela Dilip Parikh Keshubhai Patel Narendra Modi Anandiben Patel Vijay Rupani

Chief Ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party

Arunachal Pradesh	Gegong Apang

Assam	Sarbananda Sonowal (incumbent)

Chhattisgarh	Raman Singh (incumbent)

Delhi	Madan Lal Khurana Sahib Singh Verma Sushma Swaraj

Goa	Manohar Parrikar Laxmikant Parsekar (incumbent)

Gujarat	Keshubhai Patel Suresh Mehta Narendra Modi Anandiben Patel Vijay Rupani (incumbent)

Haryana	Manohar Lal Khattar (incumbent)

Himachal Pradesh	Shanta Kumar Prem Kumar Dhumal

Jharkhand	Babulal Marandi Arjun Munda Raghubar Das (incumbent)

Karnataka	B. S. Yeddyurappa D. V. Sadananda Gowda Jagadish Shettar

Madhya Pradesh	Sunder Lal Patwa Uma Bharti Babulal Gaur Shivraj Singh Chouhan (incumbent)

Maharashtra	Devendra Fadnavis (incumbent)

Rajasthan	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Vasundhara Raje (incumbent)

Uttarakhand	Nityanand Swami Bhagat Singh Koshyari B. C. Khanduri Ramesh Pokhriyal

Uttar Pradesh	Kalyan Singh Ram Prakash Gupta Rajnath Singh

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