Gujarat Assembly elections are due in the second half of 2022

Gujarat Assembly elections are due in the second half of 2022

Gujarat Assembly elections are due in the second half of 2022

In a move that has left many eyebrows raised, Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday tendered his resignation. 

Sixty-five-year-old Rupani went to Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat’s residence along with his cabinet colleagues and submitted resignation. 

Gujarat BJP in-charge Bhupendra Yadav said that the decision of new chief minister will be taken at a meeting of the party’s Parliamentary Board. 

The move comes in less than an hour after he was present at a function organised by Vishwa Patidar Samaj in Ahmedabad where Prime Minister Narendra Modi had joined virtually. 

Gujarat state assembly elections are due in the second half of 2022. 

Rupani, who took over as the chief minister in August 2016 from Anandiben Patel, is the first chief minister after Modi to have completed a five-year term. 

Gujarat BJP president C R Patil is expected to soon address a press conference. 

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