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| name = Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai<br />
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| office = [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Minister of Commerce]]<br />
| primeminister = [[Charan Singh]]<br />
| term_start = 30 July 1979<br />
| term_end = 14 January 1980<br />
| predecessor = [[Mohan Dharia]]<br />
| successor = [[Pranab Mukherjee]]<br />
| term_start1 = 20 September 1965<br />
| term_end1 = 12 May 1971<br />
| order1 = 3rd<br />
| office1 = Chief Minister of Gujarat<br />
| governor1 = [[Nityanand Kanungo]]<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Balwantrai Mehta]]<br />
| successor1 = [[President's rule]]<br />
| office2 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]<br />
| constituency2 = [[Godhra (Lok Sabha constituency)|Godhra]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1977<br />
| term_end2 = 1980<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Piloo Mody]]| <br />
|successor2 = Jaideep Singh<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]] [[Indian National Congress (O)]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1915|8|09|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Surat]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| residence = <br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|9|12|1915|8|09|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]<br />
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'''Hitendra Kanaiyalal Desai''' (9 August 1915 &ndash; 12 September 1993) was the Chief Minister of [[Gujarat]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mapsofindia.com/gujarat/chief-ministers.html | title=List of Chief Ministers (CM) of Gujarat | publisher=Maps of India | accessdate=5 September 2021}}</ref> and a leader of [[Indian National Congress]] and later [[Indian National Congress (O)]].<br />
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==Political career==<br />
Desai was born in [[Surat]] In a gujarati [[Brahmin]] Family. As a student, he took leading part in debates, sports and other activities at School and College. In 1941-42, he was arrested during the ‘[[Quit India]]’ freedom Movement for offering individual [[Satyagrah]] and went to jail for one year. He was Education Minister in the reorganised [[Bombay state]].<br />
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Hitendra Desai was the Minister of Law in the ministry headed by Dr. [[Jivraj Narayan Mehta]]. He was also Minister for Home and Deputy leader of the House. Later, he was the Chief Minister of the state from 20 September 1965 to 12 May 1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gujaratinformation.net/gallery/Chief_Minister/Hitendrabhai.htm|title=Shri Hitendrabhai Kanaiyalal Desai|publisher=Gujarat Information Bureau}}</ref><ref name="GroverArora1996">{{cite book|author1=Verinder Grover|author2=Ranjana Arora|title=Encyclopaedia of India and her states: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_ZtAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 November 2017|year=1996|publisher=Deep & Deep|isbn=978-81-7100-725-7|page=12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world/narendra-modi-fast-facts/index.html | title=Narendra Modi Fast Facts | publisher=CNN | date=29 September 2017 | accessdate=27 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="(Firm)1970">{{cite book|author=Times of India (Firm)|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkQjAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 November 2017|year=1970|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company|page=866}}</ref> He decided to side with the syndicate after the expulsion of [[Indira Gandhi]] from the Congress. The [[1969 Gujarat riots]] occurred during his administration.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/NM1/Chronology-of-communal-violence-in-India/Article1-8038.aspx|title=Chronology of communal violence in India|date=9 November 2011|newspaper=Hindustan Times|access-date=6 February 2013|archive-date=2013-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210152649/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/NM1/Chronology-of-communal-violence-in-India/Article1-8038.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2356.htm Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]<br />
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