{"id":125952,"date":"2022-10-30T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=125952"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:42:09","slug":"first-time-mla-once-a-municipal-councillor-and-engineer-bhupendra-patel-becomes-gujarats-17th-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/politics\/first-time-mla-once-a-municipal-councillor-and-engineer-bhupendra-patel-becomes-gujarats-17th-chief-minister","title":{"rendered":"First-time MLA, Once A Municipal Councillor, And Engineer, Bhupendra Patel Becomes Gujarat’s 17th Chief Minister\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bhupendra Rajnikant Patel took Oath on September 12 as the 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat, succeeding Vijay Rupani, whose resignation comes as a surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patel, 59, hails from a Patidar community and is the first member of the Kadva sub-caste. The Patidar are a prominent caste with some influence over the economy, particularly in the education, cooperative sector, real estate and construction. They comprise 13% to 14% of <\/span>Gujarat’s population. He is MLA from the Ghatlodia seat, which the former Gujarat chief minister represented, Anandiben Patel, also perceived as a close aide of Bhupendra Patel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Early life and political journey<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born on July 15, 1962, in Ahmedabad, he completed his diploma in Civil Engineering from the Government Polytechnic in 1982. He was chosen as a member of Memnagar Nagarpalika for the first time in 1995 and was reelected in 1999 and 2004. Patel also served as Memnagar municipal board’s president between 1999-2000.<\/span><\/p>\n

From 2008 to 2010, he remained as vice president of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s school board. He was elected as a councillor from the Thaltej ward. After five years, in 2015, he took the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority’s (AUDA’S) chairman position.<\/span><\/p>\n

He became the legislator for the first time in 2017 for the Ghatlodia constituency by defeating the Indian National Congress’ Shashikant Patel with a margin of 1,17,000 votes, the highest for <\/span>any constituency in the state for the BJP in that election.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patel founded a real-estate business named Vihan Associates, which is mainly located in Ahmedabad, while his son and son-in-law are also engaged in the construction business in Shilaj.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patel will enrich Gujarat’s trajectory: PM Modi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

While congratulating Patel on swearing-in, PM Modi tweeted, “Congratulations to Bhupendra <\/span>Bhai on taking oath as CM of Gujarat. I have known him for years and have seen his exemplary <\/span>work, be it in the BJP Organisation or in civic administration and community service. He will <\/span>certainly enrich Gujarat\u2019s growth trajectory,”<\/span><\/p>\n

Vijay Rupani worked tirelessly for all sections of society: Modi<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PM Modi lauded former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani’s work and stated, “During his five years as CM, Vijay Rupani Ji has undertaken many people-friendly measures. He worked tirelessly for all sections of society. I am certain he will continue to contribute to public service in the times to <\/span>come.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Patel expressed gratitude to Anandiben, Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post the meeting of the BJP legislature party on deciding him as CM, Patel thanked Anandiben <\/span>Patel, PM Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP national President JP Nadda.<\/span><\/p>\n

New leadership for the elections: Former CM Vijay Rupani<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The BJP is a party with a difference. Today is an example of it. We have new leadership for <\/span>the elections, and all the MLAs will extend all support to him,” Rupani said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason behind Rupani’s replacement<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been believed that Rupani’s management of the COVID-19 situation led him to exit the chief <\/span>ministerial position.<\/span><\/p>\n

State election<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The BJP secured 99 of the state’s 182 Assembly seats, whereas Congress won 77 seats in the <\/span>2017 state election. Gujarat is set to go for polls in December 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

BJP will win 2022 state election: BJP Gujarat Chief CR Patil<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“We are confident of winning the upcoming elections under his (Patel’s) leadership,” CR Patil, <\/span>Gujarat BJP chief said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bhupendra Rajnikant Patel took Oath on September 12 as the 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat, succeeding Vijay Rupani, whose resignation comes as a surprise. Patel, 59, hails from a Patidar community and is the first member of the Kadva sub-caste. The Patidar are a prominent caste with some influence over the economy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21815,"featured_media":125959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11315,26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india","8":"category-society","9":"category-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125953,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125952\/revisions\/125953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}