Gandhinagar: In an unprecedented move, no ministers in the previous cabinet have been retained and an all-new cabinet was sworn in on Thursday’s oath taking ceremony in Gujarat. After many hardships and ruckus at the Raj Bhavan for eliminating former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani from the new government, CM Minister Bhupendra Patel’s team of minister on Thursday finally took oath. Among the 24 ministers two are women– Manisha Vakil and Nimisha Suthar.
While there are 10 Cabinet ministers, 14 ministers of state have been inducted into the council of ministers taking the total to 25 including the chief minister.
List of New Minister for the state
Rajendra Trivedi – Ravpura
Jitu Vaghani – Bhavnagar West
Rishikesh Patel – Visnagar
Purnesh Modi – Surat
Raghavji Patel – Jamnagar
Kanu Desai – Pardi
Kiritsinh Rana – Limbdi
Naresh Patel (ST) – Gandevi
Pradip Parmar (SC) – Asarva
Arjunsinh Chauhan – Mehmdavad
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Harsh Sanghvi – Majura
Jagdish Panchal – Nikol
Brijesh Merja – Morbi
Jitu Chaudhary (ST) – Kaprada
Manisha Vakil (SC) – Vadodara City
Ministers of State
Mukesh Patel – Olpad
Nimisha Suthar (ST) – Motvahadaf
Arvind Raiyani – Rajkot (East)
Kuber Dindor (ST) – Santrampur
Kirtisinh Vaghela – Kankrej
Gajendra Parmar – Prantij
Raghavji Makwana – Mahuva
Vinod Moradia – Katargam
New Assembly Speaker
Nimaben Bhaveshbhai Acharya has been made Gujarat Assembly Speaker after Rajendra Trivedi resigned from the post and was inducted into the new cabinet.
No Repetition experiment
On Wednesday, BJP apparently decided to replace all 23 members of the erstwhile Vijay Rupani cabinet with younger faces. The party is said to be following the “no-repeat experiment”. According to reports, several ministers are upset as they were “informed over the phone that they wouldn’t be retained” in accordance with the “no-repeat” formula. Senior party leaders said that the outgoing minister would be “placated before a fresh cabinet takes guard”.
Reason for oath delay
The oath ceremony of the new cabinet of Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel — slated to be held on Wednesday — was deferred at the last minute after elaborate arrangements were made at the Governor’s house and large hoardings were put up. NDTV sources had indicated that differences over the new council of ministers were the reason for the sudden rescheduling.
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