Bhupendra Patel and his cabinet take oath

Gandhinagar: Ghatlodiya legislator from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bhupendrabhai Patel today took oath as Chief Minister of Gujarat for the second time in the presence of Prime Minister Narendrabhai Modi and other dignitaries.

Party MLAs Kanubhai Desai (Pardi), Rushikeshbhai Patel (Visnagar), Raghavji Patel (Jamnagar Rural), Balwantsinh Rajput (Sidhpur), Kuvarji Bavaliya (Jasdan), Mulubhai Bera (Khambhaliya), Dr. Kuber Dindor (Santrampur ST), Bhanuben Babadiya (Rajkot Rural SC) took oath as the cabinet ministers in Bhupendra Patel government.

MLAs Harsh Sanghavi (Majura – Surat) and Jagdish Vishwakarma (Panchal) (Nikol – Ahmedabad) took oath as the minister of state with independent charge.

MLAs Parshottam Solanki (Bhavnagar rural), Bachubhai Khabad (Devgadh Baria), Mukesh Patel (Olpad), Praful Pansheriya (Kamrej), Bhikhubhai Parmar (Modasa) and Kunvarji Halpati( Mandvi ST) took oath as minister of State.

All the ministers were wearing saffron Bandhani scarfs. They all took oath with Bhagwad Geeta book in their hands.

Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Smriti Irani, Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand among other dignitaries were present in the ceremony. DeshGujarat