The swearing-in of new ministers in the cabinet of Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will be held at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar at 1 pm today.
According to sources, more than 20 leaders will be sworn in as ministers, news agency ANI reported.
Sources said most of the ministers in the cabinet headed by former chief minister Vijay Rupani are likely to be dropped.
Bhupendra Patel took oath as the 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat on Monday. He is the first chief minister in Gujarat from the Kadva Patel community which constitutes about 12.4 per cent of the state’s population. Till now all other “Patel” chief ministers of Gujarat belonged to the Leuva Patel community.
The party is counting on Patel to consolidate the party’s fortunes ahead of the assembly elections due later next year. In the 2017 state election, the BJP won 99 out of the state’s 182 assembly seats and the Congress 77 seats.
Patel, a 59-year-old BJP leader, has become an MLA for the first time from the Ghatlodia seat, which was earlier held by Anandiben Patel. He won his first seat in 2017 by a margin of 117,000 votes. He had secured more than 72 per cent vote share in Ghatlodia constituency during the 2017 assembly elections.
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