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|name = Gopi Chand Bhargava<br />
|image = File:Gopi Chand Bhargava.png<br />
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|order = 1st<br />
|office = Chief Ministers of Punjab (India){{!}}Chief Minister of Punjab<br />
|term_start = 15 August 1947<br />
|term_end = 13 April 1949<br />
|predecessor = '''Post Established'''<br />
|successor = [[Bhim Sen Sachar]]<br />
|term_start2 = 18 October 1949<br />
|term_end2 = 20 June 1951 <br />
|predecessor2 = [[Bhim Sen Sachar]]<br />
|successor2 = [[President's rule]]<br />
|term_start3 = 21 June 1964<br />
|term_end3 = 6 July 1964<br>{{small|(caretaker)}}<br />
|predecessor3 = [[Pratap Singh Kairon]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/prominent-players/316116.html | title=PUNJAB ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS — 1951-1952 Prominent Players | newspaper=The Tribune | date=30 October 2016 | accessdate=25 January 2018}}</ref><br />
|successor3 = [[Ram Kishan]]<br />
|office4 = [[List of leaders of the opposition in the Punjab Legislative Assembly|Leader of Opposition]] in [[Punjab Province (British India)#First Assembly Election|Punjab Provincial Assembly]]<br />
|term_start4 = 1937<br />
|term_end4 = 1940<br />
|predecessor4 = '''Post Established'''<br />
|successor4 = [[Bhim Sen Sachar]]<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1889|3|08}}<br />
|birth_place = Sarsa District, [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]] <br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|12|26|1889|3|08|df=yes}}<br />
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|profession = Politician<br />
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'''Gopi Chand Bhargava''' (8 March 1889 &ndash; 26 December 1966)<ref name="Lifespan">{{cite book|last = Juneja|first = M. M.|title = Eminent freedom fighters in Haryana|publisher = Modern Book Company|year = 1981|pages = 77|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=i2YeAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Gopi+Chand+Bhargava%22&dq=%22Gopi+Chand+Bhargava%22}}</ref> was the first [[Chief Minister of Punjab (India)|Chief Minister of Punjab]] from 15 August 1947 to 13 April 1949, and again between 18 October 1949, to 20 June 1951, and for the third time as caretaker Chief Minister between 21 June 1964, and 6 July 1964.<ref name="Arora1991">{{cite book|author=Subhash Chander Arora|title=Current Issues and Trends in Centre-state Relations: A Global View|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=is3EsOhHAOEC&pg=PA60|accessdate=25 January 2018|year=1991|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-307-0|pages=60–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mapsofindia.com/punjab/government-and-politics/chief-minister.html | title=List of Chief Ministers (CM) of Punjab | publisher=Maps of India | accessdate=25 January 2018}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://punjabassembly.nic.in/members/showcm.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-12-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213075808/http://punjabassembly.nic.in/members/showcm.asp |archivedate=2007-02-13 }}</ref><ref name="Arora1991"/><br />
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==Personal and family life==<br />
[[File:Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice-President of the Interim Government of India, visiting the riot affected city of Multan, in undivided Punjab along with Dr Gopichand Bhargava, the Chief Minister of Punjab.jpg|thumb]]<br />
He was born on 8 March 1889 in Sirsa district of Punjab province in British India. In the year 1912, he completed his M.B.B.S. degree from Medical College (Lahore) and then started the medical profession in 1913.<ref name="www.punjabdata.com">[http://www.punjabdata.com/First-CM-of-Punjab.aspx First CM of Punjab]</ref><br />
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His brother, [[Pandit]] [[Thakur Das Bhargava]], was also an [[Indian National Congress|INC]] politician, former [[Member of parliament (India)|Member of parliament]], [[Indian independence movement|freedom fighter]], lawyer, founder of ''"Vidya Pracharini Sabha"'' and several schools and colleges including [[Thakur Dass Bhargava Senior Secondary Model School]] and [[Fateh Chand College for Women (Lahore), Hisar|Fateh Chand College for Women]] at [[Hisar city|Hisar]].<ref name=data2>M. M. Juneja, 2004, "Hisar City: Places & Personalities", page 130, 311, 339, 77.</ref><ref>[https://districts.ecourts.gov.in/hisar Hisar Courts History]</ref><ref>Jugal Kishore Gupta, 1991, "History of Sirsa Town", Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, page 261, 204.</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of chief ministers of Punjab (India)]]<br />
* [[List of chief ministers of Haryana]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/entity/gopichand-bhargava Gopi Chand Bhahava materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)]<br />
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