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Indian politician
Dahyabhai Patel
(10 November 1905 ? 11 August 1973) was the son of
Indian
leader
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
and a member of the
Parliament of India
.
Personal life
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Educated at
Bombay
, Patel graduated from the
Gujarat Vidyapith
and began working for Oriental Insurance Company, and settled in Bombay. When he was 27, his first wife Yashoda died, leaving him his son Bipin. He later married Bhanumati and had another son, Gautam. His flat on Sandhurst Road and later Prabhadevi in Bombay was the frequent residence of Sardar Patel.
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Career
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Patel was a Congressman and was elected member of the
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
in 1939, where he spent 18 years.
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Patel participated in the
Quit India movement
and was imprisoned from 1942 to 1944.
He left congress in 1957 over disagreements with Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Patel requested to fight the 1957 Lok Sabha elections as a Parishad candidate, but decided against it on rebuke from his sister
Maniben Patel
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He eventually became the vice president of the Parishad and was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1958.
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