# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/balwantrai-mehta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:51:09.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/balwantrai-mehta"
name: "Balwantrai Mehta"
slug: "balwantrai-mehta"
description: "Balwantrai Gopalji Mehta was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the second chief minister of Gujarat from 1963 until his death in 1965 during the Second India–Pakistan war. He is the only sitting chief minister of an Indian state to have been killed during a war."
tagline: "Indian independence activist and politician (1900–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Balwantrai_Mehta_2000_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1900-02-19"
deathDate: "1965-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.74074074074074
  historical:           8.506848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump