After registering a record-breaking victory in the Gujarat elections, Bhupendra Patel has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second time. This is BJP’s seventh term in power in the state of Gujarat. The swearing-in ceremony was attended by the PM himself, Mr. Narendra Modi along with a number of his Cabinet Ministers namely, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and other central ministers.
Patel became a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly for the Ghatlodia constituency after winning the 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections and was unanimously elected as the CM of Gujarat by the party members after Vijay Rupani, the ex-CM of Gujarat resigned from his post on the 11th September 2021. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Assam’s Himanta Biswa Sarma, Haryana’s Manohar Lal Khattar, Madhya Pradesh’s Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Karnataka’s Basavaraj Bommai, Uttarakhand’s Pushkar Singh Dhami, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his Deputy Devendra Fadnavis. BJP chief JP Nadda, senior leader BL Santosh and MPs who have campaigned in Gujarat attended the ceremony.
The swearing-in ceremony was presided over by the Governor of Gujarat Mr Acharya Devvrat at a function held at the Helipad Ground inside the new secretariat complex in Gandhinagar. Thousands of people attended the ceremony making it an eventful moment