There will be an expansion of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel’s cabinet in Gujarat, in which 25 new ministers will take oath today. For this, huge preparations have been made by the party. Ahead of the swearing-in ceremony, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today paid a courtesy call on Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat and informed him about the status of the Gujarat Cabinet and sought permission for the swearing-in ceremony.

There will be 25 ministers in Bhupendra Patel’s new cabinet. The list of whose names has also come out. These leaders will take oath as ministers in today’s swearing-in ceremony. These names are-

1. Hrishikesh Patel
2. Praful Panseria
3. Kunwarji Bavaliya
4. Parsottam Solanki
5. Kunu Desai
6. Harsh Sanghvi
7. Naresh Patel
8. Kanti Amritiya
9. Arjun Modhwadia
10. Darshana Vaghela
11.Trikam Chhanga
12. Rewa Ba Jadeja
13. Jeetu Vaghani
14. Jairam Gambit
15. P. C. Baranda
16. Swaroopji Thakor
17. Kaushik Vekariya
18. Ramesh Katara
19. Ishwar Singh Patel
20. Padmuman Vaja
21. Manisha Vakil
22. Praveen Mali
23. Sanjay Singh Mahida
24. Kamlesh Patel
25. Raman Solanki

Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat said that the Chief Minister informed about the current situation of the Gujarat Cabinet and has sought permission to organize the swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet members.

Many new faces may get place

This reshuffle in the Gujarat cabinet is being linked to the 2027 assembly elections. This time many new faces have also been included in the new cabinet. Among them there are some faces who have joined BJP from Congress. There are speculations that this time there may be two Deputy CMs in Gujarat.

In this list, the name of Rivaba, wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, is being discussed the most. Who is a first-time MLA and has been given a place in the Gujarat Cabinet for the first time. Let us tell you that earlier on Thursday, all the 16 ministers of Gujarat had submitted their resignations to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.

All 16 ministers in the Bharatiya Janata Party ruled Gujarat government have resigned. All the ministers have submitted their resignations to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. All the ministers resigned after an important meeting on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at the house of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. Before the resignation, a meeting of all the ministers was held with the Chief Minister. In this meeting, the resignations of all the ministers except the Chief Minister have been accepted.

The resignations given by the ministers of Gujarat will be submitted to the Governor. All of them had their resignations ready. The ministers had signed the resignation letter. No further instructions have been given.

The process of cabinet expansion in the state has reached its final stage. First of all, BJP state president Jagdish Vishwakarma resigned. After this, all the ministers resigned one after the other. These resignations were handed over to Vishwakarma, who directed all the ministers to resign.

Interestingly, the Chief Minister did not ask for resignation from the ministers. This afternoon, a meeting of ministers was held at the residence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, in which it was decided that all the ministers would resign en masse. After this decision, now all eyes are on the announcement of the new cabinet. The swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet will be held tomorrow, Friday (October 17) at the Mahatma Temple in Gandhinagar.

Read the list of Gujarat government ministers here-

1. Kanubhai Desai , Finance, Energy and Petrochemicals (Pardi)
2. Balwant Singh Rajput , Industries, Labor and Employment (Siddhpur)
3. Hrishikesh Patel , Health, Family Welfare and Higher Education (Visnagar)
4. Raghavji Patel , Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries (Jamnagar Rural)
5. Kunwarjibhai Bavaliya , Water Supply and Civil Supplies (Jasdan)
6. Bhanuben Babaria , Social Justice and Women and Child Development (Rajkot Rural)
7. mulubhai bera , Tourism, Forest and Environment (Khambhalia)
8. Kuber Dindor , Education and Tribal Development (Santrampur ST)
9. Naresh Patel , Ganadevi
10. Bachhubhai Khabad , Devgarh Baria
11. Parshottam Solanki , Bhavnagar Rural
12. Harsh Sanghvi , Majura
13. Jagdish Vishwakarma , Nicole
14. Mukeshbhai Zeenabhai Patel , olpad
15. Kunwajibhai Halapati , Mandvi (ST)
16. Bhikubhai Chatur Singh Parmar , Modasa

The cabinet led by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel is likely to be expanded before Diwali 2025. This means that there may be a change in the cabinet of Gujarat in the next five days. Sources from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have given this information.

A senior BJP leader said on Tuesday (October 14) that the state may get about 10 new ministers in the cabinet expansion.

Fear of replacement of more than half of the ministers

According to the report of news agency PTI, the leader, on the condition of not disclosing his identity, said that in the upcoming cabinet expansion and reshuffle, about half of the existing ministers are likely to be changed. Let us tell you, currently there are 17 ministers in the state cabinet including Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. Of these, 8 are cabinet level ministers,

Gujarat cabinet expansion may happen before October 18

The leader said, ‘There is a possibility that about 50 percent of the ministers of the current cabinet may be changed. Cabinet expansion or reshuffle can happen before October 18. There is a possibility that after this expansion, Gujarat may get 10 new ministers.

Jagdish Vishwakarma is Gujarat BJP President

Earlier this month (October 2025), Jagdish Vishwakarma, Minister of State in the Gujarat government, was made the new president of the Gujarat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, replacing Union Minister CR Patil.

Bhupendra Patel becomes CM of Gujarat for the second time

There can be a maximum of 27 ministers in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly. Bhupendra Patel took oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for the second time on December 12, 2022.

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Vadodara Bridge Collapse: So far 18 people have died due to the collapse of the bridge over the Mahisagar river in Vadodara, Gujarat. Officials said that search and rescue operations at the scene were stopped for one night. This campaign will start again in the morning on Friday (July 11), as two people are still missing.

In fact, on the morning of Wednesday (July 9), a part of a 40 -year -old bridge collapsed in Gambhira village near Padra town. There were many vehicles on the bridge, which fell into the river. This bridge connects the districts of Anand and Vadodara.

Campaign stopped due to boom in river
Vadodara District Magistrate Anil Dhelia informed that with the receipt of another body on Thursday night, the death toll in this accident has increased to 18. Two people are still missing. The rescue operation has been stopped due to the boom in the river and has been resumed on Friday morning.

The search and rescue operations were carried out throughout the day by at least 10 teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and other agencies.

CM Bhupendra Patel suspended four engineers
According to information received from the officials, some vehicles including a truck laden in the river are still stuck. Therefore, the district administration has used a ‘high performance truck’ of the Indian Army to take them out. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, while taking action in connection with the bridge collapse, suspended four engineers of the state’s road and building department.

The suspended officers have been identified as Executive Engineer NM Nayakwala, Deputy Executive Engineer UC Patel and RT Patel and Assistant Engineer JV Shah. Apart from this, Chief Minister Patel, who is also handling the charge of road and building departments, had asked experts to prepare a report on the repair, inspection and quality check done on the bridge and on the basis of this report, it was decided to suspend the four engineers.

The rest of the bridges will also have quality checks
CM Patel has ordered the department officials to immediately inspect other bridges of the state in view of the incident. Meanwhile, the officials seem to protect themselves from the fact that a social worker drew attention to the poor condition of this bridge in August 2022.

Three years ago, information about the bridge was informed
After the bridge collapsed, a three -year -old audio clip is going viral on the social media platform in which social activist Lakhan Darbar, who runs the ‘Yuva Sena’ organization, can be heard by an officer of the road and building departments to repair the bridge or build a new bridge.

Lakhan Darbar told the officer that Vadodara District Panchayat member Harshad Singh Parmar also sent a letter to the department and expressed concern over the situation of the bridge built four decades ago. Significantly, when the local media spoke to Nayakwala, the executive engineer of Vadodara division of the department on Wednesday after the incident, he claimed that no major malfunction was found in the bridge during the inspection of the department.

The suspended engineer claimed- no malfunction in the bridge
Nayakwala, one of the four officers suspended by the Chief Minister, said, “There was no demand to close the bridge for the movement of vehicles.” According to our report, no major damage was found during our inspection. There was some problem in the bearings coat, but it was repaired only last year.

Since 2021 in Gujarat, there have been at least six major incidents of bridge collapse. In October 2022, 135 people died after the demolition of the British Jhula Bridge on the Machhu river in Morbi city.

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