Tejashree Dilipkumar Patel is an Indian politician from

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, India.

Career

Patel has studied MD (

Gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...

) from the NHL Municipal Medical College,

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

. She is a practising gynecologist. As her husband Dilipkumar Patel was an

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(INC) member and Viramgam City President in 1997, she was in politics. In 2000, she was elected to the district panchayat from

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. She served as the chairperson in district panchayat for five years; as the standing committee chairperson for 2.5 years, and as the head of the district health committee for another 2.5 years. She contested 2007 Gujarat legislative assembly election from

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as a member of

(INC) and lost by a narrow margin of 677 votes to

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(BJP) candidate. She was elected to Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Viramgam in

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as a member of INC defeating BJP candidate Pragjibhai Patel by a margin of 16,983 votes. She left INC and joined BJP in July 2017. She contested 2017 Gujarat legislative assembly election from Viramgam where she was defeated by INC candidate

Lakhabhai Bharwad Lakhabhai Bharwad (born 26 September 1959) is an Indian politician who is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Gujarat and is the Vice President of the Gujarat Congress. He was elected as the MLA from the Viramgam constituency in 2 ...

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