Patel is Chairperson and Managing Director of Laxmi Protein Pvt. Ltd. at Vasad, and is also an agriculturist. He is a trustee of SardarDham and the Charotar Seva Trust.
Long associated with the BJP, Patel served as treasurer of the party's Anand unit. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Anand in 2019, defeating Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki by 1,97,718 votes. In 2024 he retained the seat, defeating Congress candidate Amit Chavda by 89,939 votes (6,12,484 to 5,22,545).
He has served on the Western Railway's Zonal Railway Users' Consultative Committee and as a syndicate member of Sardar Patel University, and has authored two books on government programmes.
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