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Ahmed Patel (born 21 August 1949) is a Member of Parliament in India and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. He is widely credited with the party’s performance in the 2004 and 2009 General elections. Presently Patel is political secretary to the Congress President Sonia Gandhi.,〔http://164.100.47.5/newmembers/Website/Main.aspx〕〔(Congress likely to field ex-MLA Rasheedaben from Bharuch – Express India )〕 since 2001. Patel has risen through ranks and files of the Congress Party to emerge as one of the most powerful politicians in India. He is active in politics by contesting local body elections in the Bharuch District of Gujarat in 1976. Since then, he has virtually occupied every major position in the party’s state and central wings. Patel has represented Gujarat seven times in the Parliament of India, three times in the lower house or Lok Sabha (1977 – 1989) and four times in the Upper House or Rajya Sabha (1993 till Present). As of date he is the only Muslim parliamentarian from the state of Gujarat. During the UPA Government regime between 2004 and 2014, Patel was one of the chief troubleshooters and coordinators between the government and party. He is known to keep a low profile and rarely interacts with the media. Apart from politics, Patel is extensively involved in philanthropic and charitable activities 〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2015-02-21 )〕 ==Early life== Ahmed Patel was born on 21 August 1949 into a Bharuch based agriculturalist family, as the third child of Mohammed Ishakji Patel and Hawaben Mohammedbhai.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ahmed Patel's official Website )〕 Mohammed Ishakji was one of the pioneers of South Gujarat’s cooperative union movement in the 1960s to prevent exploitation of small borrowers by private moneylenders, who would charge exorbitant interest rates. Patel did his bachelor's degree from JayendraPuri Arts and Science College, Bharuch (South Gujarat University). He was an active sportsman during his early days and captained from his college cricket and badminton tournaments. It was during his college days that Patel got involved into public life by assisting his father in the cooperative bank movement. Inspired by the cooperative model, Patel administered Bharuch’s dairy cooperative in the early 1970s. In 1976 Patel married Memoona Patel. Memoona belonged to a Gujarati trader family who settled in Myanmar. Memoona comes from a family of freedom fighters who worked closely with Netaji Subhash Chandra Boses's activities in Myanmar and Congress’s Seva Dal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ahmed Patel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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