Amit Shah holds meetings at his Ahmedabad bungalow to discuss successor of Anandiben

Ahmedabad: National president of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) Amit Shah today morning arrived at Ahmedabad. Shah’s residence on outskirts of Ahmedabad city has today become center point of all political discussions for the choice of successor of outgoing Chief Minister Anandiben Patel who has tendered her resignation yesterday before the Governor.

Shah who is also one of BJP MLAs in Gujarat met various BJP leaders of Gujarat including state party organizational general secretary Bhikhubhai Dalsania, treasurer Surendra Patel, likely Chief Ministerial candidate and preset Finance and Health minister Nitin Patel, state party president and Water supply and Transport minister Vijay Rupani, Education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Social Justice minister Ramanlal Vora, Finance minister Saurabh Patel, Environment and Forests minister Mangubhai Patel, MoS in Centre and national vice president of BJP Parshottam Rupala, state party incharge Dr Mahesh Sharma, national organizational joint general secretary V.Satish, State BJP General Secretary Bharatsinh Parmar among others.

Shah is ideal choice for BJP for the post of Chief Minister as the party needs a strong hand to rule Gujarat at this juncture, however party’s supreme decision making body Central Parliamentary Board has yesterday made it clear that Shah who is national president is insparable and he can’t be sent to Gujarat for the post of Chief Minister.

Shah has been however assigned responsibility for election of new Chief Minister. It is believed that Shah will stay here in Ahmedabad for three days in order to complete the procedure of election of new Chief Minister. There’s ideal procedure that party MLAs choose their leader and he becomes Chief Minister. It has been observed that party circulates the name among the MLAs well in advance and they all unanimously elect the leader.

The party has so far not conveyed the name to MLAs. Senior most minister Nitin Patel is most likely choice, while Amit Shah, Parshottam Rupala, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama etc are other names in buzz.

The Central Parliamentary Board has decided the names of Nitin Gadkari and Saroj Pandey as observes to supervise and conduct the election of new Chief Minister in Gujarat BJP MLAs meeting which is likely to take place tomorrow.

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