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Chikhalia was born in 1955 in a middle-class family in a small town Devalki near Junagadh, Gujarat. Her father, Jamnadas Patel, was in construction business and Savitaben Patel was a pious homemaker. She has three siblings, a sister and two brothers. Sister Pusha Patel passed away of
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