PM pays tributes to late Keshubhai Patel, former CM of Gujarat.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi paid his last tributes to late Keshubhai Patel, former CM of Gujarat at the latter's Gandhinagar residence, on Friday. Keshubhai passed away on Thurday, after prolonged illness in a city hospital in Ahmedabad.
Keshubhai Patel was Gujarat’s CM from March 1995 to October 1995 and from March 1998 to October 2001. He was succeeded as Chief Minister by Narendra Modi. Patel was a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly six times. He had quit the BJP in 2012 and floated the Gujarat Parivartan Party, which merged with the BJP in 2014. Tributes poured in for Keshubhai Patel from all quarters. PM Modi also expressed grief over the BJP stalwart’s death and said that he had lost a father figure.