Gandhinagar: Vijay Rupani on Saturday resigned as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. Rupani has submitted his resignation to Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat. With Rupani’s resignation, speculations have started about the new Chief Minister of the state.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called a meeting of the legislature party to discuss the new chief minister and the new leader of the legislature party will be elected in the meeting.
Many names are in discussion for the new Chief Minister of Gujarat.
Newly appointed Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who is said to be in the good books of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is one of the top contenders for the post of CM.
Purushottam Rupala, a Rajya Sabha MP whose term is about to end in 4 months and a well-known leader of the Patidar community also called the race. Rupala is also the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and was the Gujarat BJP President.
Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat Nitin Ratilal Patel He is also the frontrunner in the race for the post of CM. Patel has been the cabinet minister for health, medical education, family welfare, roads and buildings. He has also handled other departments like water supply, water resources, urban development and urban housing.
Lok Sabha MP from Navsari and Gujarat BJP President Chandrakant Raghunath Patil He is also being told as one of the contenders for this post. Patil will address the media shortly.
Union Minister BL Santosh and Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav as well as state president CR Patil presided over a meeting at the BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar. After this meeting, the time and date of the legislature party meeting will be decided.
“After discharging my responsibility as Chief Minister, now I have resigned from the post of Chief Minister and also expressed my desire to work with new energy in the party. I would definitely like to work under the leadership of Hon’ble National President I will continue. The Prime Minister with full responsibility and new energy for the responsibility I will get from the party.”
Rupani also said that it has been the tradition of the BJP that the responsibilities of the workers keep changing with time. He said that it is the specialty of our party that the responsibility given by the party, the party workers handle it with full devotion.
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