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When the 1965 battle between India and Pakistan was at its top, prominent Congress chief and then Gujarat sitting Chief Minister Balwantrai Gopalji Mehta was travelling in a chopper. There dangle been eight other folks in the chopper. When the chopper was flying shut to the Indo-Pak border in the Rann of Kutch, the Pakistani Air Power shot it down by likelihood. The PAF mistook the helicopter for an Indian reconnaissance airplane.

The overall eight persons, including the sitting   CM of Gujarat Balwantrai Gopalji Mehta, his wife Sarojben, three physique of workers people, a journalist and two crew people dangle been killed in the attack. Mehta halted in Mithapur earlier than flying to Kutch border. Minutes after taking off from Mithapur, his chopper was intercepted and attacked by Pak fighter jet.

The Pak fighter jet was flown by pilot named Qais Hussain, as per India On the present time. 25-365 days-faded Hussain hovered round the airplane and waited for the permission from Pakistani ground control inception.

A Pakistani fighter jet fired two volleys at an airplane after the airplane signaled a save a query to for originate, following a visual identification of the Pakistani plane. Mehta’s airplane crashed onto the bottom after the attack.

Balwantrai Mehta

Balwantrai Mehta was a ancient congress chief and was identified because the ‘architect of Panchayati Raj’ in the nation. He was born in February 19, 1900 in a heart class household. he studied upto BA but didn’t take a degree from the British Govt. Within the 365 days 1920, Balwantrai joined the national sprint of non-cooperation which was led by Mahatma Gandhi.

In 1942, Mehta’s participation in the Indian independence sprint resulted in a 3-365 days penal complex sentence imposed by the British authorities.

He grew to turn out to be Gujarat’s Chief Minister in 1963, several years after the recount obtained independence.