<P> Haren Pandya was the Home Minister of Gujarat in India . He was murdered in 2003 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, when he was sitting in his car (the place of his murder is contentious) after a morning walk in the Law Garden area in Ahmedabad . </P> <P> He represented the Ellis Bridge constituency of Ahmedabad City as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator . He was a member of the RSS from his early age and was also a Municipal Councillor from the Paldi Area of Ahmedabad City . Pandya was a strong supporter of Keshubhai Patel and in 1998, after the BJP came to power in Gujarat with Keshubhai as Chief Minister, Pandya was made Home Minister of Gujarat . He was appointed as Minister of state for revenue after Modi took over as the Chief Minister; however, he resigned from the post in 2003 . Fearing that he would be denied a ticket for the 2002 assembly elections, he withdrew from the electoral fray . Later he was appointed to BJP's national executive . </P>

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