New Delhi, December 22(Wishav Warta): Vijay Rupani will continue as the chief minister of Gujarat. Nitin Patel will retain the post of deputy chief minister.
Rupani was unanimously selected as the BJP legislature party leader at a meeting of all the newly-elected BJP MLAs convened by state unit president Jitu Vaghani on Friday. The announcement was made by senior BJP leader and union minister Arun Jaitley.
“There’s a procedure of consultation in the party. I asked members if there were any alternatives they wanted to name. Since there were none, the two (Rupani and Patel) were declared as unanimously elected,” Jaitley told mediapersons at a press briefing.
“We will inform you all about the swearing in soon,” he added.
The process to select the next chief minister of Gujarat was carried out under the supervision of finance minister Arun Jaitley and BJP general secretary Saroj Pandey, who were appointed as observers by the party’s central leadership.