Ahmedabad: The BJP-led Gujarat government on Friday appointed a new cabinet with 26 ministers, including cricket Ravindra Jadeja’s wife Rivaba Jadeja. The development comes just a day after the entire cabinet, barring chief minister Bhupendra Patel, submitted its resignation.
Friday’s announcement, the first major reshuffle under Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, comes a day after the entire Gujarat cabinet, except for the CM, submitted its resignation.
According to a report, ministers who were part of the earlier cabinet were asked to resign by the party to give Patel and the BJP leadership a free hand for a ‘strategic reset’ ahead of the upcoming local body polls and the state Assembly elections, to be held in 2027.
Rushikesh Patel, Praful Panseriya, Kanubhai Desai, and Kunwarji Bavaliya from the previous cabinet were named in Friday’s list. Parshottam Solanki from the previous cabinet was also retained.
Patel had earlier held the Higher Education and Health portfolios, while Panseriya was the Minister of State (MoS) for Education. Desai and Solanki, meanwhile, held the Energy and Fisheries and Animal Husbandry portfolios respectively, while Bavaliya was the Water Resources Minister.
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