With swearing-in of the new Gujarat cabinet less than an hour away, it is becoming clear that the BJP has stuck to ‘no repeat’ theory with not a single name of sitting ministers figuring in the list of new ministers doing rounds on social media.
A highly placed source in the BJP confirmed that the names doing rounds are correct. He, however, added that these have not been declared officially. Sources said that the sequence of ministers taking oath has been also finalised.
After becoming chief minister in 2001, Narendra Modi had changed all the sitting corporators in municipal corporations in 2005. This experiment had succeeded.
A series of meetings were being held at Gujarat BJP president C.R. Patil’s residence ever since Vijay Rupani resigned and Bhupendra Patel, a first-time MLA from Ghatlodiya in Ahmedabad, was named his successor.
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There has been discontent within the party but none of the ministers of Rupani government are speaking out.
If the list doing rounds is correct, it means that those dropped include former deputy chief minister Nitin Patel, law minister Pradipsinh Jadeja and education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama.
The new ministers have been appointed taking into consideration the caste equations in the state.
The swearing-in ceremony is at 1.30 pm.
