Anandiben Patel

Anandiben Patel
Official portrait, 2014
20th Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Assumed office
29 July 2019
Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath
Preceded byRam Naik
17th Governor of Madhya Pradesh
Additional Charge
In office
1 July 2020 – 8 July 2021
Chief MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan
Preceded byLalji Tandon
Succeeded byMangubhai C. Patel
In office
23 January 2018 – 28 July 2019
Chief MinisterShivraj Singh Chouhan
Kamal Nath
Preceded byOm Prakash Kohli
(additional charge)
Succeeded byLalji Tandon
Governor of Chhattisgarh
Additional Charge
In office
15 August 2018 – 28 July 2019
Chief MinisterProf. Raman Singh
Bhupesh Baghel
Preceded byBalram Das Tandon
Succeeded byAnusuiya Uikey
15th Chief Minister of Gujarat
In office
22 May 2014 – 7 August 2016
Preceded byNarendra Modi
Succeeded byVijay Rupani
Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
In office
24 May 2012 – 13 July 2016
ConstituencyGhatlodiya
In office
26 May 2002 – 22 June 2012
ConstituencyPatan
In office
21 June 1998 – 22 May 2002
ConstituencyMandal
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
1994–1998
ConstituencyGujarat
Personal details
Born (1941-11-21) 21 November 1941 (age 82)
Kharod, Bombay Province, British India
(present-day Gujarat, India)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
Mafatlal Patel
(m. 1962)
Children2
Residence(s)Raj Bhavan, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
OccupationPolitician

Anandiben Mafatbhai Patel (born 21 November 1941)[1][2] is an Indian politician serving as the 20th and current Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also served as 17th Governor of Madhya Pradesh and Governor of Chhattisgarh. She has served as the first and to date, the only female Chief Minister of Gujarat. She is also the second female Governor of Uttar Pradesh after Sarojini Naidu.[3] She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 1987. She was the Cabinet Minister for Education from 2002 to 2007.

She was the cabinet Minister of Road and Building, Revenue, Urban development and Urban Housing, Disaster Management and Capital Projects in the Government of Gujarat from 2007 to 2014.[4][5]

On 19 January 2018, she became the Governor of Madhya Pradesh replacing Om Prakash Kohli who was holding additional charge since September 2016.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Governor was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Anandiben homepage". Archived from the original on 26 June 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Anandiben Patel Resigned". The Indian Express. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Minister asks officials not to harass investors". The Times of India. Vapi. 18 February 2012. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Some Rare Photos of Ananadiben Patel". Divya Bhaskar. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Madhya Pradesh: Former Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel to be Madhya Pradesh's governor". The Times of India. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2020.