Bhupendra Patel takes oath as Gujarat CM; 16 other ministers sworn in

Bhupendra Patel takes oath

Bhupendra Patel takes oath : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Bhupendra Patel on Monday took oath because the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a 2nd directly time period in Gandhinagar in a grand rite attended by way of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers, and leader ministers of BJP-ruled states.

Sixteen different ministers, together with 8 of cupboard rank, had been additionally sworn in. The new entrants come with 11 former ministers.

Patel was once administered the oath because the 18th leader minister by way of Governor Acharya Devvrat at a serve as held on the Helipad Ground close to the brand new Secretariat.

The Cabinet ministers come with Kanu Desai, Rishikesh Patel, Raghvji Patel, Balvantsinh Rajput, Kunvarji Bavaliya, Mulu Bera, Kuber Dindor, and Bhanuben Babariya.

Harsh Sanghvi and Jagdish Vishwakarma had been sworn in as ministers of state with an impartial fee.

The six different ministers of the state come with Parshottam Solanki, Bachu Khabad, Mukesh Patel, Praful Pansheriya, Kuverji Halpati and Bhikhusinh Parmar.

Of those 16 ministers, 4 belong to the Koli group (Bavaliya, Khabad, Solnaki and Mukesh Patel), 3 are Patidars (Raghavji, Rishikesh and Praful), 3 OBCs (Vishwakarma, Parmar and Bera) and two are tribals (Halpati and Dindor).

Babariya belongs to a Scheduled Caste group, Sanghvi is Jain, Desai a Brahmin, and Rajput a Kshatriya.

PM Modi congratulated CM Patel and his new group in a tweet.

“Congratulations to Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel on taking oath as CM of Gujarat. I want to additionally congratulate all those that took oath as Ministers. This is an vigorous group which can take Gujarat to even more recent heights of development” the PM tweeted after the rite.

Of the 11 former ministers who had been inducted into the Bhupendra Patel executive 2.0, seven had been a part of the federal government led by way of him from September 2021 to December 2022.

They are Harsh Sanghavi, Jagdish Vishwakarma, Kanubhai Desai, Rushikesh Patel, Raghavji Patel, Kuber Dindor and Mukesh Patel.

Four others together with Solanki, Bera, Khabad, and Bavaliya had served as ministers within the BJP governments previously.
Top BJP leaders, together with Union ministers and leader ministers of the party-ruled states, attended the swearing-in rite.

They incorporated Union minister Amit Shah, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Karnataka CM S R Bommai, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu and Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala

BJP president JP Nadda and Union ministers Smriti Irani, Ramdas Athawale, and Sarbananda Sonowal additionally attended.

In the just-concluded Gujarat Assembly elections, counting for which was once hung on December 8, the BJP received a 7th directly time period by way of successful document 156 seats within the 182-member House. The Congress received 17 constituencies and AAP 5.

Patel, 60, resigned as leader minister along side his complete cupboard on Friday to pave the best way for the formation of a brand new executive following the election effects.

He was once elected because the chief of the BJP legislative get together on Saturday, following which he met the governor and staked the declare to shape the following executive.

Patel received the Ghatlodia seat with the best possible margin of one.92 lakh votes within the elections.

A low-profile BJP chief and the primary from the Kadva Patidar sub-group to transform CM, Patel changed Vijay Rupani in September 2021.