After registering a record-smashing victory in the Gujarat Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA is holding a Legislative Party meeting today to pick a new leader for the post of chief minister in the state capital Gandhinagar.
In the meeting, current Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will be picked up for the second term in office.
On Thursday, Bhupendra Patel tendered his resignation along with his entire cabinet to form a new government.
He will take oath as the new chief minister of the state on December 12.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the ceremony.
The party observers – senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, B S Yediyurappa and Arjun Munda – are attending the legislative party meeting.
The Bharatiya Janata Party swept the Gujarat Assembly elections with a historic landslide victory.
The party broke all the records for the number of seats won by any party in the state.
It took 156 seats of the state’s 182 assembly seats — a record in its own right. The previous record was for 149 seats in 1985 when the Indian National Congress under Madhav Singh Solanki won the Assembly.
93 seats spread across central and north Gujarat are voting today in the second phase of the crucial Assembly polls in the BJP bastion. The election this time is a three-cornered fight between the ruling BJP, Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister…
Gujarat BJP leader Bhupendra Patel took oath as the Chief Minister for the second time in a grand ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other central ministers, in Gandhinagar today. Patel, who had replaced Vijay Rupani in September last year, was administered the…
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah should be given credit for the ongoing construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya and maintained the two senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have done a lot in preserving the country's culture and…
