was a Member of the Legislative Council of the Bombay State between 1958 and 1960. He stood as the Nutan Maha Gujarat Janta Parishad candidate in the Dariapur Kazipur constituency in the 1962 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, finishing in second place with 17,237 votes (48.69%). CPI(M) leader When the CPI was split in 1964, Mehta would join the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Before the split, Mehta was the CPI Gujarat State Council Secretary and a member of the National Council of the party. He had not joined walk-out protest at the CPI National Council meeting on 11 April 1964, which marked the emergence of the Left CPI (later CPI(M)) as a separate party, but was identified as a leftist within CPI. Mehta attended the Tenali convention of the Left CPI in July 1964, and afterwards organised a special convention at Ahmedabad to present a report from Tenali. On 5 August 1964, the Maha Gujarat Janata Parishad organized a state-wide hartal (general strike). Mehta took part in mobilising mill workers to join the strike. After the hartal, Mehta and other party leaders were arrested. Mehta was elected to the Central Committee of CPI(M) at the 7th Party Congress, held at Calcutta in October–November 1964. He became the Gujarat State Committee Secretary of CPI(M), a post he would hold until his death. Mehta authored many works on Marxist theory in Gujarati language. Mehta was elected the Mayor of Ahmedabad in 1966, and served in the role until 1967. He contested the Dariapur Kazipur seat again in the 1967 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, as an independent, finishing in second place with 19,574 votes (43.68%). Dinkar Mehta died on 30 August 1989. He had suffered from ill health during the last years in his life. References 1907 births 1989 deaths Members of the Bombay Legislative Council Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians Mayors of Ahmedabad