Gujarat Cabinet Ministers Live : Assembly Speaker Resigns Minister to Bhupendra Patel Govt; Making an oath at 1:30 p.m.

Gujarat Cabinet Ministers Live : Assembly Speaker Resigns Minister to Bhupendra Patel Govt; Making an oath at 1:30 p.m.

Gujarat Cabinet Ministers Live : Assembly Speaker Resigns Minister to Bhupendra Patel Govt; Making an oath at 1:30 p.m.

New Delhi : New ministers of the Bhupendra Patel-led government in Gujarat will take oath on Thursday at the Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar.

The ceremony was postponed on Wednesday after “upset sitting ministers, who were to be dropped to take care of the anti-incumbency factor”, objected to the move

Sources say Chief Minister Patel is inducting 27 ministers in his Cabinet. Apparently, the buzz that several old faces were being dropped to make way for new faces to beat the anti-incumbency factor caused much heartburn among old-timers. 

Earlier, the swearing-in ceremony was scheduled to be held on Wednesday. According to reports, even the posters at the Raj Bhavan had mentioned September 15 as the date for the ceremony. However, they were taken down Wednesday afternoon.

BJP’s Gujarat in-charge Bhupender Yadav has been holding marathon meetings in Gandhinagar to finalise the names in the new Cabinet, which is being reshuffled in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.