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Gujarat: BJP races to find new Chief Minister, meeting to take place

Who will be the next Chief Minister of Gujarat? This is a question that the citizens are eagerly waiting for the answer to.

Newly elected BJP MLAs of Gujarat will meet in Gandhinagar today to choose the next chief minister in the presence Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and party general secretary, Saroj Pandey.

While Jaitley and Pandey are the party’s central observers for the exercise, state BJP in-charge Bhupender Yadav and co-in charge V Satish would also attend the meeting at party headquarters ‘Kamalam’, the party’s state unit Chief Jitu Vaghani told reporters.

“All the MLAs along with party observers and in-charge leaders would meet tomorrow (Friday) to select the leader of the ruling party (chief minister). All the MLAs have been intimated to remain present,” Vaghani said on the 21st of December 2017.

Earlier on Thursday, Vijay Rupani resigned along with his council of ministers, paving the way for the formation of a new government. Rupani, accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel and other ministers visited Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar and handed over their resignation letters to the Governor.

Rupani, however, would serve as the caretaker chief minister till the formation of a new government. “Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and his entire council of ministers have tendered their resignations to Governor O P Kohli who has accepted them,” Patel told reporters outside Raj Bhavan.

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