Bhupendra Patel takes oath as Gujarat Chief Minister, Sixteen other ministers sworn in

Gujarat, Dec 12, 2022: On Monday, Bhupendra Patel took oath as the 18th chief minister of Gujarat after the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Gujarat Assembly Elections by a landslide. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah were also present at the ceremony.

Sixteen other ministers, including eight holding cabinet rank, were also sworn in during the ceremony.

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

Harsh Sanghvi and Jagdish Vishwakarma took oath as ministers of state with independent charge.

Last week, on Friday, Patel and his entire cabinet had handed in their resignations to ensure the formation of a new government after the results of the state assembly election were declared. A day later, on Saturday, Bhupendra Patel was unanimously chosen as the leader of the BJP legislative party.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won a record seventh term in the recently concluded Gujarat assembly election, winning 156 of the total 182 seats of the legislative assembly. Meanwhile, the Congress won 17 seats and AAP won five.