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 | birth_place = [[Bombay]],  [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]
 | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|10|25|1937|df=y}}
-| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], India
+| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]
 | term_start =28 October 1997
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 ==Political career ==
-In 1990, parikh joined politics and served as the Vice President of the State Committee of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP). He contested and won 1990 and 1995 Gujarat legislative assembly elections from [[Dhandhuka (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhandhuka constituency]] as a candidate of BJP.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />
+In 1990, Parikh entered politics and served as the Vice President of the State Committee of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP). He contested and won 1990 and 1995 Gujarat legislative assembly elections from [[Dhandhuka (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhandhuka constituency]] as a candidate of BJP.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />
 BJP won majority in 1995 election and formed government headed by Chief Minister [[Keshubhai Patel]]. Patel resigned in October 1995 following revolt of his colleague [[Shankersinh Vaghela]] and consequently, [[Suresh Mehta]] was sworn in as the Chief Minister in October 1995 and he served until September 1996.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/oct/20guj1.htm|title=Rediff On The NeT: A prickly marriage of convenience|website=www.rediff.com|access-date=26 October 2019}}</ref> Parikh was the minister of industries in the cabinet headed by Mehta.<ref name=":0" />
-In 1996, when Vaghela split the BJP and formed the [[Rashtriya Janata Party]]. He joined RJP which formed the minority government with support of the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) and Vaghela became the Chief Minister on 23 October 1996.<ref name=":1" /> A year later INC threatened to withdrew its support on 20 October 1997. A week later the compromise was reached as a change of Chief Minister. Vaghela stepped down and Parikh sworn in as a Chief Minister by governor [[Krishna Pal Singh]] in 1997.<ref name="it" /><ref name="wire" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/oct/27guj.htm|title=Rediff On The NeT: Dilip Parikh will succeed Vaghela as Gujarat CM|website=www.rediff.com|access-date=26 October 2019}}</ref>
+In 1996, when Vaghela split the BJP and formed the [[Rashtriya Janata Party]], he joined RJP which formed the minority government with support of the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) and Vaghela became the Chief Minister on 23 October 1996.<ref name=":1" /> A year later INC threatened to withdrew its support on 20 October 1997. A week later the compromise was reached as a change of Chief Minister. Vaghela stepped down and Parikh was sworn in as a Chief Minister by governor [[Krishna Pal Singh]] in 1997.<ref name="it" /><ref name="wire" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/oct/27guj.htm|title=Rediff On The NeT: Dilip Parikh will succeed Vaghela as Gujarat CM|website=www.rediff.com|access-date=26 October 2019}}</ref>
 In 182 members [[Gujarat Legislative Assembly]], there were only 46 RJP members while there were 44 INC, 76 BJP and 15 Independents members.<ref name=":2" /> Thus minority government by outside support of the INC resulted in the instability.<ref name="it" /> He submitted his resignation to Gujarat Governor Krishna Pal Singh and called for the fresh assembly election on 5 January 1998 but continued as a caretaker Chief Minister till 4 March 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980106/00650054.html|title=Gujarat CM Parikh resigns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192913/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980106/00650054.html|archive-date=2 January 2014|date=6 January 1998|website=The Indian Express}}</ref> He lost to the BJP candidate [[Bharat Pandya]] in [[Dhandhuka (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Dhandhuka]] by a margin of over 15000 votes in 1998 Gujarat legislative assembly election while RJP won only four seats. BJP regained power with 117 seats out of 182 seats assembly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1506/15060290.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194259/http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1506/15060290.htm|date=21 March 1998|archive-date=2 January 2014|title=Elections '98: The Assembly round|website=Frontline}}</ref><ref name="wire" /> He later joined INC and afterwards retired from the politics.<ref name=":3" />