today in gujarat Chief Minister on Friday (17 October) Bhupendra Patel of leading new in cabinet Swearing in ceremony organized Gandhinagar Happened in the Mahatma Temple. During this period, there has been a major expansion of the new cabinet. joy during this Sanghvi new deputy of gujarat CM Took oath of office. Jitendra Vaghani and Arjun Modhwadia took oath as Gujarat cabinet ministers in Gandhinagar.

A total of 25 ministers are to take oath in the new cabinet of Gujarat, in which six old faces have been given a chance in the new cabinet. Whereas Jamnagar North MLA Rivaba Jadeja took oath, she has become a minister at the age of 35. Rivaba Jadeja is the wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja. Morbi MLA Kanti Amritiya took oath. She is the face of the bitter Patidar community, she has been elected MLA six times.

Retired IPS officer P.C. Baranda took oath as minister, he is an MLA from Bhiloda of Aravalli. Trikam Chhanga, MLA from Anjar in Kutch district, took oath as minister. He is the face of the Ahir community and has been the president of Kutch District Panchayat. Naresh Patel, MLA from Navsari’s Ganadevi, took oath as minister. He has been a minister before also, he comes from Scheduled Tribe. Vav MLA Swaroopji Thakor took oath as minister, Deesa MLA Praveen Mali took oath as minister.

He got a place in the new cabinet of Gujarat government

Apart from Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Trikam Bijal Chhanga, Swaroopji Sardarji Thakor, Praveen Mali, Rishikesh Patel, PC Baranda, Darshana Vaghela, Kantilal Amrutiya, Kunwarjibhai Bavaliya, Rivaba Jadeja, Arjun Modhwadia, Dr. Pradyumna Waja, Kaushik Vekaria, Parshottam Solanki, Jitendra Vaghani, Raman The names of Solanki, Kamlesh Patel, Sanjay Singh Mahida, Ramesh Katara, Praful Panseria, Harsh Sanghvi, Manisha Vakil and Ishwar Singh Patel are included in the list of new ministers. At present, 9 old ministers of Gujarat have been removed, while six old faces have been given place in the new cabinet.

Caste equation visible in the new cabinet

Eight Patidar ministers including the Chief Minister have got the place, eight OBC MLAs, four tribal leaders, three Scheduled Caste MLAs and one Anavil Brahmin Kanubhai have got the place. Harsh Sanghvi has got the place from Jain community. Rivaba Jadeja has got the place from Kshatriya community. Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and two agitators have not got a place.

He was kept out of the new cabinet

Raghavji Patel, Balwantsingh Rajput, Kuberbhai Dindor, Mulubhai Bera, Bhanuben Babaria, Jagdish Vishwakarma, Mukesh Patel, Bhikhusingh Parmar, Kunwarjibhai Halpati, Bachchu Khabar were removed from the new cabinet of Gujarat.

This cabinet expansion in Gujarat is being seen as a preparation for the 2027 assembly elections. In this Special attention has been given to ethnic and regional balance. Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, CM Bhupendra Patel and BJP national president and Union Minister JP Nadda arrived at the swearing-in ceremony of the cabinet expansion. It is noteworthy that on October 16, all the 16 ministers of Bhupendra Patel government had resigned.

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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