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|death_place = [suthari,Abdasa [Kachchh]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]] | |death_place = [suthari,Abdasa [Kachchh]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]] | ||
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== Political career == | == Political career == | ||
He joined the national movement of non-co-operation in 1920. He founded Bhavanagar [[Praja Mandal]] in 1921 for carrying on the freedom movement in that state. He participated in the Civil Disobedience movement from 1930 to 1932. He also participated in [[Bardoli Satyagraha]]. He was sentenced for three years imprisonment in [[Quit India Movement]] of 1942. He spent total seven years in prison during British | He joined the national movement of non-co-operation in 1920. He founded Bhavanagar [[Praja Mandal]] in 1921 for carrying on the freedom movement in that state. He participated in the Civil Disobedience movement from 1930 to 1932. He also participated in [[Bardoli Satyagraha]]. He was sentenced for three years imprisonment in [[Quit India Movement]] of 1942. He spent total seven years in prison during British colony. On [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s suggestion, he accepted membership of the Congress Working Committee. When [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] became president of All India Congress Committee, he was elected its general secretary. He was twice elected, in 1949 {{citation needed|date=January 2014}} and was again elected in [[1957 Indian general election]] to the [[2nd Lok Sabha]] from Gohilwad (Bhavnagar) Constituency.<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1957 to the Second Lok Sabha, (Vol. I)| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1957/Vol_I_57_LS.pdf |publisher=Election Commission of India|page=65| accessdate = 27 May 2014 }}</ref> | ||
He was the Chairman of Estimate committee of Parliament. He chaired the [[Balwant Rai Mehta Committee|committee]] set up by [[Government of India]] in January 1957 to examine the working of the Community Development Programme and the National Extension Service and to suggest measures for their better working. The committee submitted its report in November 1957 and recommended the establishment of the scheme of 'democratic decentralisation' which finally came to be known as ''Panchayati Raj''.<ref name="Mathew1995">{{cite book|last=Mathew|first=George|title=Status of Panchayati Raj in the States of India, 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H6DQEoh0EJ8C&pg=PA5|year=1995|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-553-9|pages=5–}}</ref><ref name="MisraDhaka2004">{{cite book|last1=Misra|first1=Suresh|last2=Dhaka|first2=Rajvir S.|title=Grassroots Democracy in Action: A Study of Working of PRIs in Haryana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MbwdXsDLT8C&pg=PA11|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-107-2|pages=11–}}</ref> | He was the Chairman of Estimate committee of Parliament. He chaired the [[Balwant Rai Mehta Committee|committee]] set up by [[Government of India]] in January 1957 to examine the working of the Community Development Programme and the National Extension Service and to suggest measures for their better working. The committee submitted its report in November 1957 and recommended the establishment of the scheme of 'democratic decentralisation' which finally came to be known as ''Panchayati Raj''.<ref name="Mathew1995">{{cite book|last=Mathew|first=George|title=Status of Panchayati Raj in the States of India, 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H6DQEoh0EJ8C&pg=PA5|year=1995|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-553-9|pages=5–}}</ref><ref name="MisraDhaka2004">{{cite book|last1=Misra|first1=Suresh|last2=Dhaka|first2=Rajvir S.|title=Grassroots Democracy in Action: A Study of Working of PRIs in Haryana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MbwdXsDLT8C&pg=PA11|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-107-2|pages=11–}}</ref> | ||
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During the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]], on 19 September 1965, then serving chief minister Mehta flew in a [[Beechcraft]] commuter aircraft from Tata Chemicals, Mithapur to the Kutch border between India and Pakistan. The plane was piloted by Jahangir Engineer, a former [[Indian Air Force]] pilot. It was shot down by [[Pakistan Air Force]] pilot Qais Hussain, who assumed it to be a reconnaissance mission. Mehta was killed in the crash along with his wife, three members of his staff, a journalist and two crew members.<ref name="OI20110810">{{cite web|url=http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?730835 |title=Pak Pilot's Remorse for 1965 Shooting of Indian Plane |last=Laskar |first=Rezaul |date=10 August 2011 |work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |accessdate=11 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812231400/http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?730835 |archivedate=12 August 2011 }}</ref><ref name="BBC20110810">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14481483|title=Pakistan pilot's 'remorse' for 1965 shooting down|date=10 August 2011|work=BBC|accessdate=11 August 2011}}</ref> | During the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]], on 19 September 1965, then serving chief minister Mehta flew in a [[Beechcraft]] commuter aircraft from Tata Chemicals, Mithapur to the Kutch border between India and Pakistan. The plane was piloted by Jahangir Engineer, a former [[Indian Air Force]] pilot. It was shot down by [[Pakistan Air Force]] pilot Qais Hussain, who assumed it to be a reconnaissance mission. Mehta was killed in the crash along with his wife, three members of his staff, a journalist and two crew members.<ref name="OI20110810">{{cite web|url=http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?730835 |title=Pak Pilot's Remorse for 1965 Shooting of Indian Plane |last=Laskar |first=Rezaul |date=10 August 2011 |work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |accessdate=11 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812231400/http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?730835 |archivedate=12 August 2011 }}</ref><ref name="BBC20110810">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14481483|title=Pakistan pilot's 'remorse' for 1965 shooting down|date=10 August 2011|work=BBC|accessdate=11 August 2011}}</ref> | ||
In August 2011 Qais Hussain wrote to Jahangir Engineer's daughter and | In August 2011 Qais Hussain wrote to Jahangir Engineer's daughter and paid his condolences to her.<ref name="BBC20110810"/><ref>{{cite web | title = After 46 yrs, the healing touch: Pak pilot says sorry for mistake|publisher=Indian Express | ||
| url = http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/after-46-yrs-the-healing-touch-pak-pilot-says-sorry-for-mistake/829634/ |date=10 August 2011 | | url = http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/after-46-yrs-the-healing-touch-pak-pilot-says-sorry-for-mistake/829634/ |date=10 August 2011 | ||
| accessdate = 27 May 2014 }}</ref> | | accessdate = 27 May 2014 }}</ref> | ||