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Suryakant Acharya (9 December 1929 – 21 December 2009) was an Indian politician of the
Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...
and a member of the
Parliament of India The Parliament of India (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the R ...
representing
Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
in the
Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...
, the upper house of the
Indian Parliament The Parliament of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the ...
. He was elected from Gujarat State in Rajya Sabha, the Council of States of India parliament for the 2005 to 2011. He was Vice Chairman of State Planning Commission of Gujarat from June 1998 to January 2003. He was married to
Hemaben Acharya Hemaben Acharya is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was Health minister in Government of Gujarat from 1975 to 1980. She represented Junagadh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly Gujarat Legislative Asse ...
who was Minister of Health at Govt of Gujarat during 1975–80. They had one son.


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Profile on Rajya Sabha website
Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat 1929 births 2009 deaths Bharatiya Jana Sangh politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat Janata Party politicians People from Junagadh Rajya Sabha members from the Bharatiya Janata Party {{Gujarat-BJP-politician-stub