Hemaben Acharya (10 August 1933 – 11 May 2025) was an Indian politician who was leader of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

. She was Health minister in the

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from 1975 to 1980. She represented Junagadh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in the

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. Acharya died in

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on 11 May 2025, at the age of 91.Former Gujarat health minister Hemaben Acharya passes away at 92
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