- Re-elected Chief Minister vows to bring the Uniform Civil Code in the state soon.
- The swearing-in ceremony of the new government will take place at 10:30 am on Monday at the Helipad Ground in Gandhinagar
NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, DEC 10
Bhupendra Patel will continue as the chief minister of Gujarat for a second straight term with the newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs electing him as the leader of the legislative party during a meeting here on Saturday.
આજે શ્રી કમલમ ખાતે માન. કેન્દ્રીય રક્ષા મંત્રી શ્રી @rajnathsingh જી, કર્ણાટકનાં પૂર્વ મુખ્યમંત્રી શ્રી બી.એસ.યેદિયુરપ્પા, કેન્દ્રીય મંત્રી શ્રી @MundaArjun જીની વિશેષ ઉપસ્થિતિ વચ્ચે ચૂંટાયેલા ધારાસભ્યશ્રીઓએ વિધાનસભાનાં પક્ષનાં નેતા તરીકે શ્રી @Bhupendrapbjp જીને સમર્થન આપ્યું. pic.twitter.com/DRLcWvczGZ
— C R Paatil (Modi Ka Parivar) (@CRPaatil) December 10, 2022
Patel’s name was declared as the leader of the legislative party unanimously at the meeting held at the party’s state headquarters ‘Kamalam’.
“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.
Speaking to reporters in Gandhinagar, BJP MLA Harsh Sanghavi said, “Bhupendra Patel has been elected as the leader of the BJP legislative party.”
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— BJP Gujarat (@BJP4Gujarat) December 10, 2022
Patel, 60, had resigned as the chief minister along with his entire cabinet on Friday to pave the way for formation of a new government in the state after the BJP registered a landslide victory in the just concluded Assembly elections.
મારા માટે ઊર્જાના અવિરત સ્ત્રોત સમાન માનનીય પ્રધાનમંત્રી શ્રી નરેન્દ્રભાઈ મોદી, માનનીય કેન્દ્રીય ગૃહ-સહકાર મંત્રી શ્રી અમિતભાઈ શાહ, માનનીય રાષ્ટ્રીય અધ્યક્ષ શ્રી જે પી નડ્ડા, માનનીય પ્રદેશ અધ્યક્ષશ્રી સી આર પાટીલ તથા રાષ્ટ્રીય અને પ્રદેશ સંગઠનનો પણ હું વિશેષ આભાર વ્યક્ત કરું છું. pic.twitter.com/Vcz4WddmWs
— Bhupendra Patel (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Bhupendrapbjp) December 10, 2022
Interacting with media personnel after being elected as the leader of the BJP’s legislative party leader, Patel said that he will perform his duty as the CM of Gujarat and will not break the faith that the people of Gujarat and PM Modi have in him.
When asked if the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will be taken up in the first cabinet meeting of the new government, Patel said, “The committee has been formed. Work will be done on the basis of their recommendation.” It is pertinent to mention that the implementation of UCC was the key point in the BJP’s manifesto for Gujarat elections with which it went for votes.
Senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, B S Yediyurappa and Arjun Munda were present for the meeting as the party’s central observers.
Born in Ahmedabad, Bhupendra Patel is an MLA from the Ghatlodia seat, previously held by the former Gujarat CM and now Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel. The BJP leader won the seat by over 1.17 lakh votes in 2017, the highest margin in that poll.
In the results declared on Thursday, Patel retained the Ghatlodia seat, which is a part of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency represented by Union minister Amit Shah, with a margin of 1,92,263 votes. Patel got 2,13,530 votes while his opponent Amee Yajnik (Congress) got only 21,267 votes.
In September last year, he had replaced Vijay Rupani as the chief minister.
The BJP registered a historic victory in Gujarat by clinching 156 seats in the 182-member House on Thursday, much higher than its tally of 99 seats in 2017.
The party had already announced that the swearing-in ceremony of the new government will take place on December 12, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will be present along with chief ministers of BJP-ruled states.
Gujarat BJP chief C R Paatil had said that Bhupendra Patel would continue as the chief minister and the swearing-in ceremony of the new government will take place on Monday at the Helipad Ground in Gandhinagar.
