Gandhinagar: Bhupendra Patel will take oath as Gujarat CM on December 12^th. Gujarat BJP Legislature party elected Bhupendra Patel as the BJP leader. He will sworn in as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term with the newly-elected BJP MLAs electing him as the leader of the Legislative party during a meeting in Gandhinagar on Saturday.

         Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will be present along with chief ministers of BJP-ruled States. Patel’s name was declared as the leader of the Legislative party unanimously at the meeting held at the BJP State Headquarters Kamalam. BJP in a statement said that the newly-elected MLAs met Saturday at Kamalam, where the proposal to name Bhupendra Patel as the chief minister of Gujarat was unanimously approved.

Senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, B S Yediyurappa and Arjun Munda were present for the meeting as the party’s central observers. Patel won a second straight term from the Ghatlodia Assembly seat in the Ahmedabad district by 1.92 lakh votes in this year’s election.