First Bhupendrabhai Patel ministry


Bhupendrabhai Patel was sworn in as 17th Chief Minister of Gujarat on 13 September 2021. His first cabinet included 10 cabinet ministers and 14 ministers of state, including five ministers of state with independent charge.

Background

On 11 September 2021, Vijay Rupani resigned from the post of Chief Minister of Gujarat. Patel was unanimously elected as the BJP legislative party leader and Chief Minister-elect of Gujarat on 12 September 2021 in the party legislature meeting at Gandhinagar. He was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Gujarat on 13 September 2021 by Governor Acharya Devvrat. The rest of his cabinet was sworn in on 16 September 2021. The cabinet included 10 cabinet ministers and 14 ministers of state, including five ministers of state with independent charge. It was followed by the second Bhupendrabhai Patel ministry on 12 December 2022.

Council of Ministers


District breakdown

DistrictMinistersName of ministers
Kutch
Banaskantha1Kirtisinh Vaghela
Patan
Mehsana1Rushikesh Patel
Sabarkantha1Gajendrasinh Parmar
Aravalli
Gandhinagar
Ahmedabad3Bhupendrabhai Patel
Jagdish Panchal
Pradip Parmar
Surendranagar1Kiritsinh Rana
Morbi1Brijesh Merja
Rajkot1Arvind Raiyani
Jamnagar1Raghavji Patel
Devbhoomi Dwarka
Porbanadar
Junagadh1Deva Malam
Somnath
Amreli
Bhavnagar2Jitu Vaghani
R. C. Makwana
Botad
Anand
Kheda1Arjunsinh Chauhan
Mahisagar1Kuberbhai Dindor
Panchmahal1Nimisha Suthar
Dahod
Vadodara2Rajendra Trivedi
Manisha Vakil
Narmada
Bharuch
Surat4Purnesh Modi
Harsh Sanghavi
Mukesh Patel
Vinod Moradia
Tapi
Dang
Navsari1Nareshbhai Patel
Valsad2Kanubhai Desai
Jitu Choudhary
Total25