Lagatar24 Desk
Gandhinagar, Dec 10: After a meeting in Gandhinagar today, the newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs chose Bhupendra Patel to lead the legislative party, ensuring that he will serve as Gujarat’s chief minister for a second consecutive term and will be sworn in on December 12.
At the gathering held at the party’s state headquarters, “Kamalam,” Bhupendra Patel’s name was unanimously proclaimed as the leader of the legislative party.
“The newly-elected MLAs met today at ‘Kamalam,’ where the proposal to name Bhupendra Patel as the chief minister of Gujarat was unanimously approved,” the BJP said in a statement.
Following the BJP’s overwhelming victory in the recently finished Assembly elections, Patel (60), resigned from his position as Chief Minister on Friday along with the rest of his cabinet. This opened the door for the creation of a new administration in the state. As the meeting’s central observers, senior BJP figures Rajnath Singh, BS Yediyurappa, and Arjun Munda were present.
In this year’s election, Patel received 1.92 lakh votes more than the next closest candidate to win the Ghatlodia Assembly seat in the Ahmedabad district. He took over as chief minister from Vijay Rupani in September of last year.
On Thursday, the BJP secured a historic victory in Gujarat by winning 156 seats in the 182-member House, a significant increase from the 99 seats it had won in 2017.
The BJP-ruled states’ chief ministers will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new government on December 12, as has previously been declared by the party. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are also expected to attend.
Bhupendra Patel will remain the chief minister, according to Gujarat BJP leader CR Paatil, and the new government’s swearing-in ceremony will take place on Monday at Gandhinagar’s Helipad Ground.
