Gujarat: 24 ministers inducted in Bhupendra Patel's Cabinet
Rajendra Trivedi, former Speaker of the Gujarat Assembly, was also inducted as minister in the Cabinet. Harsh Sanghvi, Jagdish Panchal, Brijesh Merja, Jitu Choudhary, Manisha Vakil, Kanubhai Desai, Kiritsinh Rana, Naresh Patel, Pradip Parmar, Arjunsinh Chauhan, Jitu Vaghani, Rushikesh Patel, Purnesh Modi, Raghavji Patel, Mukesh Patel, Nimisha Suthar, Arvind Raiyani, Kuber Dindor, Kirtisinh Vaghela, Ganjedra Parmar, Raghvbhai Makwana, Vinod Moradia, Devabhai Malam have been sworn-in as the ministers in the Gujarat's Cabinet.
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The first Cabinet meeting of the newly inducted Council of Ministers of Gujarat will be held at 4.30 pm on September 16. "The first Cabinet meeting of the Council of Ministers to be chaired by CM @Bhupendrapbjp will take place at 4.30 pm at Gandhinagar," Gujarat's CMO office tweeted.
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Earlier on September 13, Bhupendra Patel took oath as the 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat.
The party is counting on Patel to shore up the party's fortunes ahead of the Assembly elections towards the end of the next year. In the 2017 state elections, the BJP won 99 of the state's 182 Assembly seats and the Congress got 77 seats.
-PTC News
