BJP Legislative Party to meet on Saturday, Bhupendra Patel likely to be CM again

The Bharatiya Janata Party BJP MLAs will meet on Saturday and formally make an announcement on the Chief Minister of Gujarat after the party registered a historic victory in the state assembly elections on ThursdayChief Whip of BJP Pankaj Desai said that BJPs Bhupendra Patel has submitted his resignation as Chief Minister of GujaratGovernor Acharya Devvrat has accepted the resignation of the chief minister and his cabinet Desai said while speaking to the media in Gandhi Nagar on FridayA meeting of all newlyelected MLAs has been called on Saturday morning to formally elect the new chief minister of GujaratThe BJP Legislative Party meeting will be held at 1000 am on Saturday in Gandhi Nagar and an official announcement regarding the chief minister of Gujarat will be made Desai saidEarlier on Friday BJP Gujarat state president CR Patil said that Bhupendra Patel is going to take oath as chief minister again on December 12 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah attend the swearingin ceremony being planned in Gandhi NagarBJP swept the Gujarat elections and won 156 of the total 182 seats on ThursdayAlso Read PM Modi thanks champion BJP karyakartas after historic winThe BJPs seventh consecutive Assembly poll win in Gujarat is its biggest since the founding of this state in 1960In the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah the BJP has smashed all previous records of electoral performanceCongress finished a distant second with 17 while the Aam Aadmi Party AAP the new electoral entrant in Gujarat won 5 seats and the Samajwadi Party SP won a lone seat and three Independent candidates too registered winsGujarat CM Bhupendra Patel too scripted history winning the Ghatlodia constituency by a record margin of about 192000 votes This constituency has given Gujarat two of its chief ministers Anandiben Patel and the current CMAAP CM face Isudan Gadhvi lost the Khambhaliya seat to BJP candidate Hardasbhai Bera by 19000 votes Gujarats MoS Home Harsh Sanghavi too won the Majura constituency with a margin of 116000 votesThe BJP also won 24 out of 27 ST reserved seats in Gujarat an increase of 12 seats as compared to the last elections The tribals too voted for BJP in huge numbers In the last Assembly elections in 2017 BJP won 99 seats Congress trailed close at 77 and NCP BTP and independent candidates secured 1 2 and 3 seats respectivelyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever