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{{Infobox officeholder | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|09|02|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death year and age|1997|1923}} | birth_place = Prantij, British Raj | office = Member of the 3rd Lok Sabha | constituency = Banaskantha | term = 1962–1967 | party = Indian National Congress }}
'''Zohraben Akbarbhai Chavda''' (1923–1997) was a Gandhian social reformer and member of the 3rd Lok Sabha from Banaskantha.
==Early life== Chavda was born on 2 September 1923 in Prantij town of Gujarat to Jamiyatkhan Ummarkhan Pathan and his wife.<ref name="LS">{{cite web|title=Members Bioprofile: Chavda, Shrimati Zohraben Akbarbhai|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1455.htm|publisher=Lok Sabha|access-date=28 November 2017}}</ref> She did her nursing training course from Wardha.<ref name="SG" />
==Career== After completing her training, Chavda began working as a nurse in Gujarat Vidyapith and later shifted to Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram. On the advice of Gandhi, she and her husband went to Sanali village with the motive of improving the condition of underprivileged. Here they established an ''ashram'' and taught the children in ''ashramshala''.<ref name="SG" /> She served as the President of the Congress Committee in Banaskantha district and the Chairman of her district's Social Welfare Project.<ref name="LS" />
During the 1962 Indian general election for the 3rd Lok Sabha, Chavda stood and won from Banaskantha on the ticket of Indian National Congress, polling 1,15,931 votes while her nearest rival, a candidate of Swatantra Party secured 60,975.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on General Elections, 1962 to the Third Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1962/Vol_II_LS_62.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India|access-date=28 November 2017|page=120}}</ref> She and Maimoona Sultan were the only two Muslim women in the 3rd Lok Sabha.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Falahi|first1=Mumtaz Alam|title=Milli Council to launch mass movement on women reservation|url=http://ns1.imc-usa.org/2009aug03/milli_council_launch_mass_movement_women_reservation.html#.Wh1ldlWWbIV|publisher=TwoCircles.Net|access-date=28 November 2017|date=3 August 2009}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Personal life== Chavda married fellow Gandhian Akbarbhai Dalumiyan Chavda at Gujarat Vidyapith in 1946. She died in 1997 and Akbarbhai followed her the next year.<ref name="SG">{{cite web|title=Gandhians in Post Independence Gujarat|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/59595/12/12_chapter%206.pdf|publisher=Shodhganga|access-date=28 November 2017}}</ref>
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