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BJP pioneer Bhupendra Patel will take oath as the seventeenth Chief Minister of Gujarat today. His swearing-in function will happen in the early evening at 02:20 PM today. Two days after Vijay Rupani’s resignation from the top post in the state, Patel was picked as the new face of Gujarat. The decision came in several months before the Assembly elections in the state due next year in December. It is believed that Patel holds a strong influence in the Patidar community in Gujarat which the BJP party has banked upon to win the upcoming elections.
राजभवन में भारतीय जनता पार्टी के विधायक दल के नवनियुक्त नेता श्री भूपेंद्रभाई पटेल जी ने अपने नेतृत्व में नई सरकार गठित करने का प्रस्ताव प्रस्तुत किया। प्रस्ताव को स्वीकार कर मुख्यमंत्री पद के शपथ ग्रहण के लिए उनको 13 सितंबर, 2021को दोपहर 2:20 बजे आमंत्रित किया। pic.twitter.com/gTZrUYKRdW
— Acharya Devvrat (@ADevvrat) September 12, 2021
With Vijay Rupani’s resignation on Saturday as the Chief Minister, he turned into the fourth CM in the BJP-driven state government in the country this year to decide on this move. Earlier, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat and Trivendra Singh Rawat offered their renunciations.
The BJP announced the name of the 59-year-old first-time MLA as the successor of Vijay Rupani following a legislative party meeting at BJP state party headquarters in Kamalam, earlier in the day. Bhupendra Patel’s name was reportedly proposed by Vijay Rupani himself.
He had won his maiden seat by a margin of 117,000 votes in 2017, the largest margin in that poll defeating Congress candidate Shashikant Patel. He grabbed more than 72 per cent of the vote share in the Ghatlodia constituency during the 2017 assembly polls.
