• By JE News Desk
  • Mon, 12 Dec 2022 02:53 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND
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BHUPENDRA Patel took oath as the 18th chief minister of Gujarat for the second consecutive term on Monday. The event witnessed the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and chief ministers of BJP-led states.

Reportedly 20 cabinet ministers along with the chief minister will also take oath during the event.

Bharatiya Janata Party leaders including Jagdish Vishwakarma, Harsh Sanghavi, Naresh Patel, Bachubhai Khabad, Parshottam Solanki also sworn in as ministers in the state cabinet.

Here's a list of the cabinet ministers who took oath on Monday along with the constituencies they represent :

Bhanuben Babariya - Rajkot Rural (Women and child development, Social Justice)

Mulu Bera - Khambhaliya (Forest and Environment, Climate change)

Kuber Dindor - Santrampur (Tribal development, Primary education)

Kunvarji Bavaliya - Jasdan (Tribal development, Labour)

Balvantsinh Rajput - Sidhpur (Industries, Small and medium-scale Industries)

Raghavji Patel - Jamnagar Rural (Agriculture, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, Rural Development)

Rushikesh Patel - Visnagar ( Health & Family Welfare, Law)

Kanubhai Desai - Pardi (Finance, Energy and Petrochemicals)

MoS

Praful Panseriya - Kamrej (Parliamentary affairs, Primary, secondary and higher education)

Bhikhusinh Parmar - Modasa (Food and civil supplies, social justice)

Kunvarji Halpati - Mandvi (Surat) (Water and irrigation, Civil Supplies)

Purushottam Solanki - Bhavnagar Rural (Fisheries)

Bachubhai Khabad - Devgadh Baria (Panchayat, Farming)

Mukesh Patel - Olpad (Forest and environment, Climate change, Water)

Mos (Independent Charge)

Harsh Sanghavi - Majura (Youth and Cultural activities, Home and Transport)

Jagdish Vishwakarma - Nikol (Cooperation, Salt, Protocol)

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Assam'S Himanta Biswa Sarma, Uttarakhand's Pushkar Singh Dhami and Tripura's Manik Saha were also present at the event.

BJP swept the Gujarat Assembly election winning a whopping 156 seats, which is the highest number of seats any party has won after the formation of the state in the year 1960.

The BJP's seventh consecutive Assembly poll win in Gujarat is its biggest since the founding of this state in 1960.

Earlier, Patel was sworn in as the 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat on September 13, 2021.

He began his political journey as a member in Memnagar municipality and got elected as MLA from Ghatlodia constituency (Ahmedabad) in the 2017 Gujarat assembly elections.

Breaking his own record, Patel once again won from Ghatlodia constituency by a staggering margin of 1,91,000 votes in the 2022 election.

(With inputs from ANI)