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Kamleshbhai Patel

Indian politician from Gujarat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ131940001 ↗
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Kamleshbhai Patel (born 1970) is an Indian politician from Gujarat. He is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Petlad Assembly Constituency in Anand District. He won the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election representing the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Early life and education

Patel is from Petlad, Anand district, Gujarat. He and his wife are teachers. He completed his MSE at Rajni College, Khambhat, Petlad, and BEd in 1998 at an education college that is affiliated with Gujarat University, Ahmedabad in 1998.

Career

Patel won from Petlad Assembly constituency representing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. He polled 89,166 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Prakash Budhabhai Parmar of the Indian National Congress, by a margin of 7,954 votes.

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“Kamleshbhai Patel” enters the record as indian politician from Gujarat. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kamleshbhai, Patel and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2022, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kamleshbhai, Patel and Indian.
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“Kamleshbhai Patel” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kamleshbhai, Patel and Indian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131940001. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970, 2022 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kamleshbhai Patel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.