Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel resigned on Friday to Governor Acharya Devvrat, following his party’s historic victory in the State Assembly elections ahead of the formation of his new government.
Patel will take the oath of office as chief minister again on December 12, according to BJP state president CR Paatil, who also stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the ceremony.
Patel went to Gandhinagar’s Raj Bhavan to resign after the Bharatiya Janata Party won 156 of the total 182 seats in the Gujarat elections on Thursday.
The BJP’s seventh consecutive Assembly election victory in Gujarat is its largest since the state’s inception in 1960.
The BJP has shattered all previous electoral performance records in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and Home Minister Amit Shah’s home state.
The Congress came second with 17, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a new electoral entrant in Gujarat, won 5 seats, the Samajwadi Party (SP) won one, and three Independent candidates also won.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel made history as well, winning the Ghatlodia constituency by a record margin of about 1,92,000 votes. Gujarat has had two chief ministers from this constituency: Anandiben Patel and the current CM.