Narendra Modi elected leader of state BJP’s legislative party, to be sworn in as CM today(Video)

Ahmedabad, 26 December 2012

Top BJP leaders, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal and Maharashstra Navnirman Sena’s Raj Thackeray will attend the swearing-in ceremony in which Narendra Modi will take oath as Gujarat Chief Minister at Amdavad’s Sardar Patel Stadium on Wednesday.

“Top BJP leaders, including L K Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Rajnath Singh and Venkaiah Naidu will be present for the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister Narendra Modi,” Gujarat BJP spokesperson I K Jadeja said on Monday.

“Chief Ministers of other BJP-ruled states and also of some non-BJP ruled states will be present,” he added.

Modi had taken oath as Chief Minister for the first time in 2001 and then in 2002 and 2007.

Meanwhile Narendra Modi was unanimously elected as the leader of the Gujarat BJP’s legislative party, at a meeting of the party MLAs in Gandhinagar on Tuesday.

At a meeting of the newly elected MLAs of the BJP held in Gandhinagar, senior party leader Vaju Vala proposed Modi’s name as leader of the legislative party, which was accepted by all the members unanimously. BJP had won 115 seats out of the 182 seats in the state. Congress had won 61, while others got the remaining 6 seats.