Gujarat Chief Minister <keyword id="193875" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vijay-rupani" source="Orion">Vijay Rupani</keyword> on Saturday resigned from the post, over a year before the state goes to polls. Elections are scheduled in December 2022 to elect 182 members of the Gujarat Assembly. Rupani (65) was sworn in as chief minister - his second stint as CM - in December 2017. "I have resigned as chief minister of Gujarat," Rupani told reporters after meeting Governor Acharya Devvrat and submitting his resignation letter. "I was given the opportunity to serve the state for five years. I will further do whatever is asked by my party," Rupani said.

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani resigns

<keyword id="12078241" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP-MLA-Bhupendra-Patel" source="Orion">BJP MLA Bhupendra Patel</keyword> will be the new <keyword id="5269" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chief-Minister" source="Orion">chief minister</keyword> of <keyword id="6354766" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gujarat" source="Orion">Gujarat</keyword>. Patel (59) was unanimously elected BJP legislature party leader here on Sunday. His name was proposed by CM <keyword id="193875" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vijay-Rupani" source="Orion">Vijay Rupani</keyword>, whose resignation from the post on Saturday surprised many. Most of the 112 MLAs of the party in the 182-member Assembly were present at the meeting, BJP sources said. Patel won the 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections from Ghatlodia constituency, defeating Congress candidate Shashikant Patel by over one lakh votes, the highest winning margin in the 2017 Gujarat polls. He holds a diploma in civil engineering and is considered close to former CM Anandiben Patel, who won from the seat in 2012 polls. With Patel being named the new legislature party leader, the suspense over who will succeed Rupani as Gujarat chief minister has ended. The new leader will meet the governor and stake claim to form the government, sources said. BJP's central observers Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Joshi and party general secretary Tarun Chaug were present at the legislature party meet. Tomar met state BJP chief C R Paatil on Sunday morning. There was talk that Praful Khoda Patel, administrator of the union territories of Lakshadweep and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Health Minister, were among the contenders. <keyword id="908125" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bhupendra-Patel" source="Orion">Bhupendra Patel</keyword>'s name was not in the long list of probables being discussed in state political circles and in a way the first term MLA emerged as the dark horse, a political observer said. He belongs to the influential Patel community. Mandaviya is from Patidar community. Rupani (65) on Saturday resigned from the post, his sudden announcement coming over a year before the state goes to polls. It is not clear what prompted the development in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state where elections to the 182-member Assembly are due in December 2022. Rupani, the fourth chief minister to demit office in BJP-ruled states during the coronavirus pandemic, was sworn in as chief minister - his second stint as CM - in December 2017. Rupani, who completed five years in office on August 7 this year, first became the chief minister on August 7, 2016, following the resignation of incumbent Anandiben Patel, and continued in the office after the BJP's victory in the 2017 Assembly elections. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/twitter-rival-koo-to-hire-500-people-in-next-on-year-across-engineering-product-and-community-management-teams/articleshow/86137878.cms">Twitter rival Koo to hire 500 people in next on year across engineering, product and community management teams</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/outlook-for-manufacturing-sector-improves-in-second-quarter-high-cost-of-production-causes-worry-says-ficci-survey/articleshow/86137600.cms">Outlook for manufacturing sector improves in second quarter, high cost of production causes worry, says FICCI survey</a>

Bhupendra Patel will be the new Chief Minister of Gujarat

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/53500952.cms" /> BJP’s Gujarat president <keyword id="193875" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vijay-Rupani">Vijay Rupani</keyword> is known to share a close rapport with PM <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> and BJP chief <keyword id="6355521" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Amit-Shah">Amit Shah</keyword>, making him the obvious choice to succeed <keyword id="6355472" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Anandiben-Patel">Anandiben Patel</keyword> after her resignation from the post of <keyword id="43534" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gujarat-CM">Gujarat CM</keyword>. As per BJP insiders, Rupani can play a balancing role in the state polity. 
 
It was during his student life that Rupani had become interested in politics, and he can also boast of being the only minister in the present cabinet who was jailed during the Emergency. He has shared good relations with all BJP CMs of the state, including Keshubhai Patel, Narendra Modi and Anandiben Patel, and has had a spotless career so far, without being involved in any controversies. 
 
"What has been remarkable about him is the fact that he has always managed to get close to whosoever came to power and never was entangled in any controversy," a BJP source told <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/vijay-rupani-the-frontrunner-to-succeed-anandiben-patel/articleshow/53494440.cms">ET</a>. 
 Another name that has been doing the rounds is of health minister <keyword id="6355682" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nitin-Patel">Nitin Patel</keyword>, but his chances are grim since the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Patel-community-demands-reservation/articleshow/48681972.cms">Patidar community</a> had raised voice against him during the agitation. Other than him, <keyword id="1595221" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Parshottam-Rupala">Parshottam Rupala</keyword> could also land the role, since he commands substantial popularity that many others don’t. 
 
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Ahmedabad, Jan 31 (PTI) The Budget session of the Gujarat Assembly will begin on March 2 and end on March 31, officials said on Monday. It would commence with the address of Governor Acharya Devvrat, while the state Budget will be presented on March 3, they said. This will be the first budget session of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel as well as Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai, both of whom were appointed in September last year after CM Vijay Rupani resigned suddenly. PTI PJT BNM BNM BNM

Budget session of Gujarat Assembly to be held between March 2-31

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The by-elections are being held in Tharad, <keyword id="108375" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Radhanpur">Radhanpur</keyword>, <keyword id="292738" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kheralu">Kheralu</keyword>, Bayad, Amraiwadi and Lunawada seats, where voting began at 8 am and will end at 6 pm, a poll official said. A total of 42 candidates are in the fray for the bypolls, which are being viewed as a <keyword id="18179" type="EVENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="battle">battle</keyword> of prestige for Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, as four of these six seats were held by the ruling BJP. Byelections were necessitated in Radhanpur and Bayad due to the resignations of sitting MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala, who quit the Congress and joined the BJP. The ruling party has fielded both of them from their respective seats in the by-election. Besides, bypolls became necessary in Tharad, Lunawada, Kheralu and Amraiwadi after the BJP MLAs of these seats got elected to the Lok Sabha. The BJP has fielded Jivrajbhai Patel in Tharad, Jignesh Sevak in Lunawada, Ajmalbhai Thakor in Kheralu and Jagdish Patel in Amraiwadi. The Congress has nominated Gulabsinh Rajput from Tharad, Raghubhai Desai from Radhanpur, Babuji Thakor from Kheralu, Jasubhai Patel from Bayad, Dharmendra Patel from Amraiwadi and Gulabsinh Chauhan from Lunawada. In the Lok Sabha elections held earlier this year, the BJP bagged all 26 parliamentary seats in <keyword id="6354766" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gujarat">Gujarat</keyword>.

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